This manual is addressed to health care providers dealing with Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the disease, its clinical presentation and its surgical management. The manual is aimed particularly at district health care providers. A... comprehensive protocol, adapted to each form and stage of the disease, is presented together with comments on the levels of resources and capabilities necessary
to shorten the length of treatment, to prevent complications and to minimize undesired sequelae and thus to obtain the best possible outcome for each patient. Some sections include advice relevant to surgeons (e.g. relating to bone infection). However, the level to which particular comments are intended to apply should be clear from the context.
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                                                                El presente documento compila cronológicamente la normatividad legal-administrativa de salud, del diario oficial El Peruano y normas internas de la institución, de acuerdo al tema de COVID-19, correspondiente al segundo semestre 2020.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Die für die Pädiatrie relevanten Verbände wie die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, die Deutsche 
Gesellschaft für Sozialpädiatrie und Jugendmedizin und der BVKJ bieten jedes Jahr auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen zahlreiche Fort- und Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen an, die versch...iedene fachliche Schwerpunkte thematisieren. Die Broschüre fasst relevante Themenschwerpunkte wie zum Beispiel Jugendsexualität, mehrsprachige Erziehung, psychosomatische/psychiatrische 
Krankheitsbilder bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund, transkulturelle Pädiatrie, Sucht und Gewalt bei Migranten u.v.m. zusammen. 
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                                                                Infectious diseases are constantly in transition. New diseases develop, known dis-eases become widespread or reemerge, and occasionally a disease is eradicated.Infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and cholera are significant causes ofillness and death in many parts of the world. Health car...e personnel are on thefront lines, helping to protect their clients from infectious diseases and treatingthem when infections occur. During the course of their work, health care person-nel perform clinical procedures or other activities that can expose both them andtheir clients to potentially infectious microorganisms. Many of their clients aresick and thus may be more susceptible to infections or may have infections thatcan be transmitted to others. Fortunately, all staff working at health care facilities can perform simple proce-dures to minimize risk—to themselves and clients—and reduce the spread ofinfections. These practices can be integrated at minimal cost into the routineworkday at clinics and hospitals around the world. This reference booklet isspecifically designed for use at all levels of the health care system, from thelargest hospitals to the smallest dispensaries or health posts, in settings whereresources are scarce. This booklet, which was first published in 1999, has now been updated. Whilemost practices remain the same, there have been a few important changes—forexample, in recommendations related to hand hygiene and standard precautions.Nonetheless, this booklet continues to present practical recommendations forsimple and relatively low-cost procedures that can be implemented anywhere,with basic supplies and little to no high-technology equipment.
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                                                                Examples from four Philippine Hospitals
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Level of stunting among Bangladeshi children <5years declined from 51% in 2004 to 36% and underweight from 41% in 2007 to 33% (BDHS 2014). But the decrease in wasting rate is not as expected, which is only from 17% to 14.3 % over last decade. Approximately 3.1 % (BDHS 2014) of under-5 children suffe...ring from SAM only by weight-for-length or height z-score (WHZ) <-3 criterion and estimated to be a total of ~ 450,000. Because, there are no national information on prevalence of SAM using mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) and presence of bipedal oedema in under-5 children, thus the actual number of children suffering from SAM could be much higher than the current estimate.
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                                                                Mapping Report - Portugal
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                 Global HIV Strategic Information Working Group
For Populations At Risk For HIV
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This manual is to assist health care providers and laboratory scientists to diagnose mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the clinical presentation and its diagnosis. The methods described are tailored to various levels of care and avail...able resources to improve the diagnosis and surveillance of the disease.
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                                                                From passive beneficiaries to active agents of change
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This article was published on December 10, 2020, and updated on December 16, 2020, at NEJM.org. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Clinical Medicine
JCI Insight. 2017;2(7):e91963. 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Access to safe blood and blood products is recognized as one of the key requirements for delivery of modern health care in the journey towards health for all. The foundation of safe and sustainable blood supplies depends on the collection of blood from voluntary non-remunerated and low-risk donors. ...Data from the WHO Global Database for Blood Safety (GDBS) brings out several inadequacies related to the supply and safety of blood and blood products. These inadequacies include a number of variations in safe blood practices across the world, including the quantity of blood donated (voluntary and replacement types), quality and adequate testing of the donated blood (immunohaematology [IH] and transfusion-transmitted infections [TTIs]), rational use of blood and blood components such as appropriate patient blood management protocols. These variations are very high in countries of the South-East Asian Region and most of them are either low- or middle-income countries (LMICs).
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