Updated with information on Ebola virus disease and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
A wide variety of health events ranging in severity may occur related to air transport, requiring different responses or, perhaps, no response at all. The target audience for this guidance document incl...udes the national focal points (NFP) for the IHR and public health authorities at PoE, as well as national aviation regulatory authorities, airport operators and personnel, aircraft operators, air crew and other stakeholders involved in air transport and emergency preparedness and response to public health events
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                                                                The COVID-19 pandemic is having far reaching impacts, well beyond the health crisis and needs, with the most severe impacts experienced in the poorest countries and those most vulnerable to humanitarian crises including natural disasters, such as Nepal.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Guidance | Preparedness - Response and early recovery - Recovery and reconstruction 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Purpose of this document: to present eight practical steps that Member States can take at the national and sub-national level to improve WASH in health care facilities
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where
we can reshape urban environments and health systems for the
majority of the world’s population that live in cities. Enabling
this transformation are the SDGs, which have reconfigured how
governments and the international community... need to plan and
implement actions to eradicate poverty and inequality, create
inclusive economic growth, preserve the planet and improve
population health. Central to this quest is to create equitable,
healthier cities for sustainable development.
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                                                                Pakistan  Global  Antibiotic  Resistance  Partnership  (GARP)  was  formed  in  the  wake  of international  and  national  efforts  for  AMR  curtailment.  A  group  of  experts  from microbiology,  infectious  diseases  and  veterinary  medicine  formed  a  core  group  at  the organizational meet...ing of GARP in Kathmandu, Nepal in July 2016. In the meeting, this core group was expanded to include other members from different sectors with the selection of the Chair and  co-chairs. These were asked to  serve on  a voluntary basis, in their own individual capacities, with no personal gains, or gains to the institutions to which they are affiliated.  The  first  phase  of  GARP  took  place  from  2009  to  2011  and  involved  four countries: India, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Phase one culminated in the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections, held in October 2011 in New Delhi, India. In 2012, phase two of GARP was initiated with the addition of working groups in Mozambique, Tanzania, Nepal  and  Uganda.  Phase  three  has  added  Bangladesh,  Lao  PDR,  Nigeria,  Pakistan  and Zimbabwe to the network to date.
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                                                                English version - This handbook sets out a the new paradigm for pharmacy practice. Its aim is to guide pharmacy educators in pharmacy practice, to educate pharmacy students and to guide pharmacists in practice to update their skills. The handbook, which brings together practical tools and knowledge,... has been written in response to a need to define, develop and generate global understanding of pharmaceutical care at all levels.
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                                                                Revision for Field Review
Online version of the manual: https://iawgfieldmanual.com/manual
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The SAARC Member States have more than an estimated 2.0 million TB cases accounting for close to one-third of the total cases of TB in the world. India alone had almost one-fifth of the global disease burden due to TB. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh followed by Afghanistan are the major contributors... of disease burden of TB in the SAARC Region. They are countries that have a dubious distinction of being on the list of 22 TB High Disease Countries in the world.
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                                                                Climate change is already having severe impacts across our planet, bringing new and previously unimaginable challenges to the people least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.
This report, the first we’ve released jointly in the history of our organizations, provides a sobering review of h...ow just one of those challenges – the increase in deadly heat-waves – threatens to drive new emergency needs in the not-so-distant future.
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