"Achieving, maintaining and improving accuracy, timeliness and reliability are major challenges for health laboratories. Countries worldwide committed themselves to build national capacities for the detection of, and response to, public health events of international concern when they decided to eng...age in the International Health Regulations implementation process. Only sound management of quality in health laboratories will enable countries to produce test results that the international community will trust in cases of international emergency. This handbook is intended to provide a comprehensive reference on Laboratory Quality Management System for all stakeholders in health laboratory processes, from management, to administration, to bench-work laboratorians. This handbook covers topics that are essential for quality management of a public health or clinical laboratory. They are based on both ISO 15189 and CLSI GP26-A3 documents"--Page 7.
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with special reference to prevention and control of avian influenza
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Thematic Report– 3 April 2020
ACAPS Risk Analysis: COVID19
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This policy brief explores the challenges faced in disaster risk governance in relation to the climate emergency.
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A Technical Brief for Breakthrough ACTION Field Teams
PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
On October 6, 11 cases of Cholera were confirmed positive in one neighbourhood of the capital Sana’a. No confirmed cases have been reported in other locations in Yemen. UNICEF, together with WHO and Health authorities, have initiated a rapid response setting up a treatment centre as well as dispat...ching an investigation team to the affected neighbourhood. The source of infection was identified as water and commercial food contamination.
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This document is a practical guide to the management of burn injuries for healthcare professionals everyhwere who are non-burn specialistsi
Time for recognition of lay counsellors
Accessed November 2017