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Namibia: National Public Health Laboratory Policy

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2012) C1

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Kenya Health Sector Referral Implementation Guidelines

Ministry of Health, Division of Emergency and Disaster Risk Managemen (2014) C1

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Lesotho: National HIV and AIDS policy

National AIDS Commission, Government of Lesotho (2006) C2

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HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC AND INVESTMENT PLAN (KHSSP) JULY 2013-JUNE 2017

Ministry of Medical Services and Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation, Republic of Kenya (2013) C1

Transforming Health: Accelerating attainment of Health Goals | THE SECOND MEDIUM TERM PLAN FOR HEALTH

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Zambia National Malaria Indicator Survey MIS 2018

Ministry of Health, Central Statistics Office, PATH Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa, et al. (2018) CC

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National Training Package on Paediatric HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment. Participants Handbook. Module 10: Adolescent HIV Services

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, National AIDS Control Programme, Tanzania (2015) C1

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Nambia: NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR MEDICINES SAFETY SURVEILLANCE

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2011) C2

Therapeutics Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre | TIPC

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Human Resources for Health South Africa

Ministry of Health, Republic of South Africa (2011) C2

HRH Strategy for the Health Sector: 2012/13 – 2016/17

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Philippines: National Objectives for Health 2011 - 2016

Department of Health (DOH) (2012) C1

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Emergency Appeal - Kenya April - September 2020

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Humanitarian Response et al. (2020) C2

Kenya reported its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020 and, as at 7 April 2020, 172 cases had been confirmed and 6 deaths reported. The Government of Kenya has taken a number of measures to curb the spread of the virus, including implementing a curfew, restricting movement out and into four coun... more