The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on health care systems that, in many instances, worsened the already existing assistance gaps. When it comes to Latin America and Central America, this challenge adds to the consequences mass mobilizations have had in recent years, which have exc...eeded the national capacities to provide prompt assistance and social protection, particularly in the health care field. This pandemic has a direct impact on people on the move since the movement restriction policies and the lockdown and social distancing measures have reduced their ability to insert themselves into economic activities that were already precarious in many cases. Consequently, they have less access to food, housing, medicines and other essential consumer goods, and fewer possibilities of getting to their countries of destinati
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Zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) is a form of TB in people predominantly caused by the bacterial species, Mycobacterium bovis, which belongs to the M. tuberculosis complex. The implications of zoonotic TB go beyond human health. The organism is host-adapted to cattle, where it is refer...red to as bovine TB, and it also causes TB in other animal species including wildlife. Bovine TB has an important economic impact and threatenslivelihoods.
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Learning from the Use of Data, Information, and Digital Technologies in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response
Rapport de plaidoyer Mars 2011
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The use of Delamanid and Bedaquiline for Children with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Mid-term review of The National AIDS Programme 2011-15
October 2013
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2017, 2(4), 50
This is a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data in a longitudinal study on asymptomatic, LF antigen-positive and -negative young people in Myanmar. Rapid field screening was used to identify antigen-positive cases and a group of antige...n-negative controls of similar age and gender were invited to continue in the study. ... Results demonstrate that sub-clinical changes associated with infection can be detected in asymptomatic cases. Further exploration of these low-cost devices in clinical and research settings on filariasis-related lymphedema are warranted.
https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed2040050
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S Afr Med J 2018;108(7):546-550. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i7.13149
Antimicrobial stewardship programmes have been introduced worldwide in response to the rise in antimicrobial resistance. The World Health Organization has mandated each Member State to produce a plan to address this problem. We rep...ort on the organic development of an antibiotic stewardship programme in a rural regional hospital in a resource-limited setting in South Africa. This has resulted in organisational change with increased awareness, participation, monitoring and education in antibiotic stewardship throughout the hospital
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Dieser Leitfaden zum Management von COVID-19 Ausbruechen richtet sich in erster Linie an die Fachöffentlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen, insbesondere den ÖGD auf allen Ebenen. Er verweist auf viele bereits existierende generische sowie für COVID-19 entwickelten Dokumente. Diese Empfehlungen sind alle... unter www.rki.de/covid-19 zu finden, darunter Empfehlungen für das Kontaktpersonenmanagement, Optionen für die Kontaktreduzierung, Kriterien für die Risiköinschätzung von Grossveranstaltungen und Hilfestellung zum Schutz besonders gefährdeter Gruppen. Informationen für Reisende sind beim Auswärtigen Amt zu finden. Informationen zur regionalen oder lokalen Ebene geben die Landes- und kommunalen Gesundheitsbehörden.
Die Inhalte basieren auf den Erkenntnissen zu Erkrankungen (COVID-19) mit Infektionen durch das neuartige Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) zum jeweils angegebenen Datenstand. Das Dokument wird aktualisiert und ergänzt, sobald neue Erkenntnisse eine Aktualisierung/Änderung der Empfehlungen notwendig machen.
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Despite the existence of criminal law, which is an important aspect of anti-FGM policies and programmes, there is not much research on the effects of cross-border practices that invalidate the law as a deterrent. Much remains unknown about the practice of cross-border FGM, specifically about gaps in... existing policy and legislation for managing cross-border FGM, as well as whether the existing interventions in the cross-border areas are sufficiently targeted to facilitate changes in social norms
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Guidance for the preparation and submission of dossiers