Promoting People's Health to Enhance Social-economic Development
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The MEDBOX Annual Report provides an overview of the most important projects of the past year
This paper reviews the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs, where historic and ongoing under-investments heighten vulnerability to a multiplicity of health threats. We use the term ‘vertical response’ to describ...e decisions, measures and actions taken solely with the purpose of preventing and containing COVID-19, often without adequate consideration of how this affects the wider health system and pre-existing resource constraints.
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Why bold action against inequalities is needed to en AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics
WHO-2019-nCoV-genomic_sequencing
Ces orientations se concentrent sur le SARS-CoV-2, mais s'appliquent également à d'autres agents pathogènes préoccupants pour la santé publique.
Research Article
BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14:91/1471-2334/14/91
The growing challenges for people in low and middle-income countries to access new medicines.
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a multifaceted, international public health problem, which poses a direct threat to the safety of the population of South Africa. A national response is required to complement the development of a global plan, as articulated in the WHO’s draft resolution EB134/37 ...“Combating antimicrobial resistance including antibiotic resistance”, adopted by theWorld Health Assembly in May 2014. The overuse of antimicrobials is driving resistance. A return to appropriate, targeted antimicrobial use in humans, animals and the environment is critical if we are to conserve the antimicrobial armamentarium. Various interventions have been put in place to address antimicrobial resistance in South Africa. However, these are insufficient to effectively tackle the threat faced by the country. The strengths of the current system are outweighed by its weaknesses.
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A survey of prevention, testing and treatment policies and practices
Journal of The Association of Physicians of India, Vol. 63 November 2015,, pp.77-96