Antimicrobial  resistance(AMR)  poses  a  serious  threat  to human,  animal  and  environmental health. Implementing  ethical  practice  guidelines  on  how  to  use  antimicrobials  effectively  and  responsibly within  the  pig  industry  will  contribute  in  reducing  and  preventing  antimicro...bial  resistance  within  the pig  industry  of  South  Africa. Members  of  Pig  Vet  Society  (PVS)  SA  hereby  commit  themselvesto  put these guidelines into good use in order to preserve the future and effectiveness of antimicrobials. PVS aims  to  be  the  leader  in  prevention  of antimicrobial  resistance  and  to  encourage  the  pig  industry  to work together in achieving this.
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                                                                The infectious disease burden in India is among the highest in the world. A large amount of antibiot-ics are consumed in fighting infections, some of them saving lives, but every use adding to antibiotic resistance  in  bacteria.  Antibiotic  use  is  increasing  steadily  (table  1),  particularly ... certain  antibiotic  classes (beta-lactam antibacterials), most notably in the more prosperous states. Resistance follows in lock-step.
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                                                                BMJ Global Health2020;5:e002014. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002014
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Scientific Brief, 17 June 2021
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                
The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) aimed to assist 10.5 million people with direct assistance and 11.2 million people with improved access to basic services. In an effort to meet humanitarian needs, humanitarian partners provided various types of humanitarian life-saving and life-sustaining... assistance and services to a monthly average of 5.5 million people during 2018. Of the 5.5 million people reached on average on a monthly basis, 2.1 million were people living in areas of high severity of need, as measured through the inter-sector severity scale.
In 2018, these efforts were funded by international support to Syria with $2.19 billion raised (65 per cent of HRP requirements) by the end of the year – more than any previous year. Thanks to this generous support, humanitarian organisations in Syria continued to deliver a massive humanitarian response to people in need with multiple humanitarian crises unfolding across the country.
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                                                                Acta Med Peru. 2017;34(3):182-7; El objetivo del presente trabajo es conocer la magnitud del problema de la TB y sus principales características epidemiológicas en la población del penal de varones de penal de varones de Trujillo, que sirva de base para plantear las mejores soluciones terapéutic...as.
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                                                                The 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and domestic animals. Never before have so many animals been kept by so many people—and never before have so many opportunities... existed for pathogens to pass from wild and domestic animals through the biophysical environment to affect people causing zoonotic diseases or zoonoses. The result has been a worldwide increase in emerging zoonotic 
diseases, outbreaks of epidemic zoonoses as well as a rise in foodborne zoonoses globally, and a troubling persistence of neglected zoonotic diseases in poor countries.
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                                                                Introduction, preparations to submit, submission procedure, requirements, main narrative of the protocol, definition of terms. | For Research and ethics clearance in Lesotho 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                There is paucity of data on the burden and specific drivers operative in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the African setting and populations. Lack of awareness and inadequate knowledge on the aetio-pathogenesis of the disease together with inadequate capacity for ...COPD care contributes to preventive and management challenges. Thus, the majority of patients with COPD are misdiagnosed, misclassified and mismanaged or undertreated. With the struggling improvement in the quality of healthcare in Africa, studies conducted over the last 10 years indicates the rising trends in both the risk factors and the burden of COPD. The role of new risk factors such as indoor pollution, infections with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), in the pathogenesis of COPD in Africa is increasingly being recognized. This literature review attempts to collect and synthesize information that could be useful in improving COPD care and informing the governments to take appropriate actions for prevention, diagnosis and management of COPD in Africa.
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                                                                This report provides a comprehensive overview of the progress made by India in terms of establishment and functionality of Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) during the two year period from April 2013 to March 2015. It describes the progress in the operational status (numbers, bed strength, human re...source availability), the profile of babies admitted in these units and of those babies who died during stay. In addition it provides individual state specific statistics to facilitate differential planning and better monitoring of these units in India.
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                                                                Guide to monitoring and evaluating