Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
AIDS Free Nigeria Training Manual
This document defines the framework for Malawi’s National HIV Programs. Considering public health benefits and risks, as well as funding and reso...urce implications, deviations from these guidelines are not supported by the Ministry of Health.
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Report of the Joint World Health Organization–Brien Holden Vision Institute Global Scientific Meeting on Myopia | University of New South Wales,... Sydney, Australia 16–18 March 2015
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A review of available evidence (2016).
28-29 June 2016; Geneva, Switzerland
The END TB strategy.
The SPPCHS project worked with the Ministry of Home Affairs to design a peer education program for prisons to provide knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent ...ox">and respond to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in prisons. AIDSFree held two training of trainers (TOT) in Dodoma to train 55 prison officers from 26 prison facilities to train prison staff and inmates on the new peer education program.
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The Resolution Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and...pan> Obesity was approved by the 48th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization, September 29- October 3, 2008, in response to the epidemic of obesity and diabetes currently affecting the countries of the Americas. Its main goal is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private health systems and working to ensure adequate allocation of resources to carry out such policies and programs.
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This paper showed a large positive correlation coefficient between psychosocial health problems and dysfunctional abilities among rural community members
These policy guidelines provide a strategic approach and new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substan...ce-abuse addiction. The key recommendations fall under three main categories: joint planning, key interventions, and overcoming barriers.
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at the national and acute health care facility level
This module should always be used together with the
mhGAP Intervention Guide for Mental, Neurological
and Substance Use Disorders in Non-specialized Health
Settings (WHO, 2010), which outlines re...levant general
principles of care and management of a range of other
mental, neurological and substance use disorders.
(www.who.int/mental_health/publications/mhGAP_
intervention_guide/en/index.html)
In the future, this module may be integrated with other
products in the following ways:
– This module may be integrated – in its full form –
into future iterations of the existing mhGAP Intervention
Guide.
– The module will be integrated –in a simplified structure –
into a new product, the WHO-UNHCR mhGAP Intervention
Guide for Humanitarian Settings (planned for 2014).
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