Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Round 3: Key informant findings from 129 countries, territories and areas - Quarter 4 2021
Countries reported disruptions in all health-care settings. In more than half of countries surveyed, many people are still unable to access care at the primary care and community care levels.  Significant dis...ruptions have also been reported in emergency care, particularly concerning given the impact on people with urgent health needs. Thirty-six per cent of countries reported disruptions to ambulance services; 32% to 24-hour emergency room services; and 23% to emergency surgeries.
Elective surgeries have also been disrupted in 59% of countries, which can have accumulating consequences on health and well-being as the pandemic continues. Disruptions to rehabilitative care and palliative care were also reported in around half of the countries surveyed.
Major barriers to health service recovery include pre-existing health systems issues which have been exacerbated by the pandemic as well as decreased demand for care.
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                                                                The indicators and questions in this document are designed for use by national AIDS programmes and partners to assess the state of a country’s HIV and AIDS response, and to measure progress towards achieving national HIV targets. Countries are encouraged to integrate these indicators and questions... into their ongoing monitoring efforts and to report comprehensive national data through the Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) process. In this way they will contribute to improving understanding of the global response to the HIV epidemic, including progress that has been made towards achieving the commitments and global targets set out in the new United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030, adopted in June 2021, and the linked Sustainable Development Goals.
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                                                                Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health crisis that resulted in 1.14 million deaths in  2021. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates, 96 416 	of these deaths  occurred 	in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region. All 22 countr...ies/territories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region are enrolled in the global AMR 
surveillance system, and 17 countries/territories reported data in 2024 (for the year 2023). The total  number of isolates reported to the system increased sixfold between 2017 and 2022, but the proportion  of blood isolates is relatively very low. Most of the data come from public sector laboratories or  hospitals, although the private sector has increased its participation in some countries/territories  recently. Three pathogens account for three quarters of all the reported pathogens – Escherichia coli 
(26%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (23%), and Staphylococcus aureus (22%).
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                                                                he National Department of Health (NDOH) presents this Malaria Elimination Strategic
Plan 2019-2023 for the Republic of South Africa. The strategy comes at an important time
as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state have recently
renewed the commitment to eliminate malari...a in Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia and South
Africa by 2020 and in the whole SADC region by 2030, with the target of zero local malaria
cases and deaths. South Africa has made steady progress towards this elimination goal
through the implementation of evidence-based malaria policies aligned to the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) Global Technical Strategy.
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                                                                Reporting period: January 2008-December 2010
Accessed: 29.09.2019