The ICAT is a simple and practical approach for assessing the adequacy of existing infection prevention and control practices and provides specific recommendations for improving practices and monitoring their effectiveness over time
Issue Brief No. 40 provides healthcare professionals with the most relevant treatment guidelines, prevention measures and training material on MVD
This document provides guidance on how to implement contact screening and chemoprophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin. The contents are logically ordered: counselling and obtaining consent, identification and listing of index case, listing of contacts, tracing of contacts, screening of contacts, ad...ministration of prophylactic drugs. Managerial aspects to undertake contact screeninig and chemoprophylaxis are also elaborated, including planning , training , supervision and drug management.
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The technical note calls for raising awareness among practitioners and policymakers about the importance of strong tobacco control measures for protecting the health and development of children, including banning tobacco advertising, implementing 100% smoke-free environments and raising taxes on tob...acco.
Exposure to tobacco smoke has devastating impacts throughout childhood and adolescence, starting from conception.
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La Stratégie intégrée de communication pour la lutte contre le paludisme au Sénégal (2016) vise à renforcer la prévention et la prise en charge du paludisme par des actions de communication efficaces. Elle combine plaidoyer, mobilisation sociale et communication pour le changement de comporte...ment afin d’augmenter l’utilisation des moustiquaires imprégnées, le recours au traitement précoce, la chimio-prévention saisonnière et l’aspersion intradomiciliaire. Le document définit les objectifs, les messages clés, les cibles, les canaux de communication (comme la radio, la télévision, les activités communautaires) et les mécanismes de suivi-évaluation. L’accent est mis sur la coordination nationale et locale pour harmoniser les actions, renforcer l’adhésion des communautés et garantir un impact durable sur la santé publique au Sénégal.
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Reference book specifying the principles of intervention for all food security activities, from initial assessment to programme implementation.
Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals” provides information about the SDGs, their background, the global reality and offers assistance and suggestions on how to teach and support learning for sustainable development.
A guide for civil society
Accessed: 30.01.2020