This volume presents the complex patterns of cancer incidence and death around the world and evidence on effective and cost-effective ways to control cancers. The Disease Control Priorities Volume 3 evaluation of cancer will indicate where cancer treatment is ineffective and wasteful, and offer alte...rnative cancer care packages that are cost-effective and suited to low-resource settings.
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition: Volume 3
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Taking the whole of Africa approach to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to require coordinated efforts from multiple stakeholders from across the continent. Africa CDC would like to acknowledge the deep partnership and continued support of AUDA-NEPAD, AVAREF, WHO AFRO, the Bill a...nd Melinda Gates Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation. These partners have helped to shape and drive the continent’s strategic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and have offered support to ensure the continent receives a fair and equitable share of the COVID-19 vaccine without delay.
We look forward to continuing and deepening our partnership for the benefit of the public health of Africa.
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A tutorial for healthcare professionals
Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Twelfth Report: October 2015)
From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working
“The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than
it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV
every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that
TB d...oesn’t have to be a death sentence for people living with HIV, but we need
more action. By joining forces, the HIV and TB community can finally give this
deadly issue the attention it deserves.”
– Mike Podmore, Director STOPAIDS
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A new frontier for integrated care.
Until now, most efforts to promote integrated care have focused on bridging the gaps between health and social care or between primary and secondary care. But the NHS five year forward view has highlighted a third dimension – bringing together physical and ment...al health. This report makes a compelling case for this ‘new frontier’ for integration. It gives service users’ perspectives on what integrated care would look like and highlights ten areas that offer some of the biggest opportunities for improving quality and controlling costs.
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Cities are uniquely positioned to understand local needs and respond rapidly to changing conditions to safeguard health. These changes require strong city leadership to implement multisectoral, health-relevant policies and public services that engage communities. The response to malaria must be an i...ntegral part of such policies and processes.
This framework supports the control and elimination of malaria in urban environments. It provides guidance for city leaders, health programmes and urban planners as they respond to the challenges of rapid urbanization in a targeted way. For each urban context, the strategic use of data can inform effective, tailored responses and help build resilience against the threat of malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
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3rd editionThe compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urg...ently needed in households, communities, schools and healthcare facilities.
The compendium includes information and further reading on: handwashing facilities – including facilities that are accessible for all, environmental cues to reinforce handwashing behaviours, physical distancing hygiene promotion.
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Ceci est la première version de la directive technique de l’INEE pour accompagner l’éducation pendant la pandémie de Covid-19. Ceci est un document évolutif qui sera régulièrement mis à jour pour répondre aux besoins d’apprentissage et de bien-être des enfants, des adolescents, des je...unes, des enseignants, des aidants et d’autres membres du personnel de l’éducation, affectés par le Covid-19.
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Issue Brief No. 40 provides healthcare professionals with the most relevant treatment guidelines, prevention measures and training material on MVD
MEDBOX Issue Brief no.30. In diesem Issue Brief finden Sie wichtige Hintergrundsmaterialien, Dokumente zu Fragen rund um klinische Aspekte, Aufklärungsmaterialien und Materialien zum internationalen Kontext.
Estas Pranchas para o diagnóstico microscópico da malária servem como guia para laboratoristas e técnicos de campo responsáveis por diagnóstico microscópico da malária pelo método de Giemsa. Também devem ser úteis para professores e alunos de disciplinas correlatas. As pranchas mostram fo...tomicrografias coloridas de lâminas de sangue (esfregaços e gotas espessas), coradas, e texto explicativo sobre as quatro espécies de parasitos causadores da malária humana e sua morfologia. São fornecidas descrições completas de cada espécie, bem como instruções sobre o preparo de lâminas e esfregaços, o uso de soluções tampão, o método de coloração Giemsa, o exame das lâminas e procedimentos para estimar a densidade parasitária. Nada será adicionado sobre knowlesi e simium? Acho importante até para que as pessoas saibam com o que se parecem. Também são descritos outros elementos celulares observados no sangue, bem como vários contaminantes comuns que podem ser confundidos com parasitos da malária.
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Interim Guidance 31 march 2020
WHO has established a shipment mechanism to expedite and cover the costs of the shipment of clinical samples from patients with suspected COVID-19 from the country of collection to one of the WHO reference laboratories providing confirmatory molecular testing for COVI...D-19. This document explains the process and documentation required for shipment of specimens.
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