23rd February 2017, Protea Hotel Thuringerhof, Windhoek | 2017 Namibia ART Guidelines: Summary of New and Old Recommendations
Le présent document donne des lignes directrices provisoires afin de garantir l’efficacité des communications sur les risques relatives à la transmission du virus Zika et aux complications potentielles. Le lien de causalité entre l’infection à virus Zika et ces complications potentielles n...a pas encore été prouvé. Malgré ces incertitudes, des stratégies de communication efficaces devraient être mises en œuvre afin de permettre aux gens de prendre les meilleures décisions éclairées pour se protéger et protéger leurs familles et leurs communautés. Les présentes lignes directrices sont destinées à être utilisées par les responsables, le personnel et les bénévoles chargés de la communication sur les risques et la santé à l’échelle mondiale, régionale ou nationale; les professionnels de la communication; les anthropologues; les sociologues; les agents de santé; les administrateurs des hôpitaux; les responsables communautaires; les gestionnaires de programme et les décideurs politiques.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the informal women workers due to lockdowns, curfews, school closures, and all other containment measures- most of which missed the feminist lens in their formulation, enforcement, and reporting. All recovery efforts, therefore, ought to delibera...tely consider the informal sector.
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en collaboration avec des experts en santé mentale du Centre Neuro-Psychopathologique de l’Université de Kinshasa (CNPP/UNIKIN)
Education for respect and understanding – inclusion and equity
Mapping actions of nongovernmental organizations and other international development organizations
The interventions summarized in this guide are intended to lower the risk of delivery and post-partum complications for both the mother and the newborn, particularly the risk of postpartum haemorrhage and infections, and improve the immediate care of premature babies. The recommendations are also in...tended to minimize the exposure of health care providersto blood and bodily fluids that could transmit Ebola
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a new Framework for Environmental and Social Management (FESM) to ensure that both people and the environment are protected from any potential impacts of FAO programmes and projects.
“This Framework ensures that our proj...ects do both “no harm” and support the transformation to more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable agrifood systems by upholding the highest international standards for risk management,” FAO Director-General QU Dongyu explained during a virtual event.
The Framework, which includes key elements of a people-centered approach and establishes environmental and social performance requirements for FAO programming, is also intended to ensure that all stakeholders, including local and indigenous communities, have ample opportunities to actively participate in projects’ activities and to voice their concerns about them.
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Guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and the use of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-related infections among adults, adolescents, and children: recommendations for a public health approach : December 2014 supplement to the 2013 Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs... for treating and preventing HIV infection.
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The objective of this project was to list the medical devices required to provide the essential reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions defined by existing WHO guidelines and publications, in order to improve access to these devices in low- and middle-income countries, support... quality of care, and strengthen health-care system. The medical devices are allocated across the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health continuum of care according to the level of health-care delivery.
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