Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series Overview.
Floods, storms, and wind account for large proportions of displacement compared to other disasters. Floods are the most frequent type of disaster whereas wind-related disasters constitute the biggest losses in terms of economic damage, displac...ement, and number of affected people. ASEAN has succeeded in developing institutions not only for addressing the threat posed by natural hazards but also for building resilience into communities at risk
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All photos in this report were taken by Ahmad Baroudi/Save the Children
Supplement to the Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund
Practitioners and Policy Makers
The main objectives of the training module
- facilitate communication and understanding between the two disciplines of epidemiology and laboratory (medicine) for disease surveillance and outbreak investigation;
- provide the field epidemiologist with a better understanding of basic microbiolo...gy techniques and analysis and interpretation of results;
- convey the laboratory perspective of public health investigations to field epidemiologists in order to improve collaboration between these two disciplines and to enhance.
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For versions in Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Turkish and German go to http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/diabetes/diabetes-und-fuesse
For versions in Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Turkish and German go to http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/diabetes/diabetes-und-augen
Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Twelfth Report: October 2015)
The BBV/STI Glossary is a resource for interpreters, translators and others who work in a health setting. It offers an extensive list of English terms related to sexual health and blood-borne viruses (such as hepatitis), with easy to understand definitions.
Accessed 13th of November 2015.
Information for sex worker how to deal with their clients to protect themselves of HIV and other sexual transmitted diseases.
The brochure is also available in spanish, turkish, romanian, polish, bulgarian and german.
This document provides an overview of the evidence of nutrition gains that can be achieved with improved WASH, a description of key WASH practices, and practical knowledge and guidance on how to integrate WASH into nutrition programmes, including important monitoring and evaluation (M&E) aspects. Th...e document concludes by providing a suite of case-studies and lessons learnt in integrating WASH with nutrition efforts
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