Health Systems in Transition. Vol. 5 No.3 2015
Republic of Armenia
Reporting period: January-December 2015
Accessed: 29.09.2019
The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir...e support from partners. It lists 10 key components and tasks for both countries and the international community that should be completed within 30, 60 and 90 days from the date of issue of the list, with minimal requirements for equipment, material and human resources.
The components include: overall coordination; rapid response teams; public awareness and community engagement; infection prevention and control; epidemiological and laboratory surveillance; contact tracing; points of entry; laboratory; social mobilization and risk communication; budget.
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Towards a world free of tuberculosis
Session V: Regulatory & quality assurance aspects
Update on prequalification of ARVs and regional harmonisation of medicine registration
Deusdedit K. Mubangizi
Group Lead, Inspections, WHO-PQT E-mail: mubangizid@who.int
Acknowledgements:
• Matthias Stahl
• Milan Smid
• Antony Fake
...• Jacqueline Sawyer
• Iveta Streipa
D-Building – UNAIDS
Kofi A. Annan Meeting Room
Wednesday, 9 March 2016 11:15 – 11:30
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Le document « Directives nationales pour la prise en charge du paludisme en RDC », publié en 2023 par le PNLP et le Ministère de la Santé, définit les protocoles officiels pour diagnostiquer et traiter le paludisme sur l’ensemble du territoire. Il recommande l’usage systématique du te...st de diagnostic rapide avant tout traitement, et l’administration des CTA pour le paludisme simple et de l’artésunate injectable pour les cas graves. Le texte insiste sur la gratuité des soins pour les enfants de moins de 5 ans et les femmes enceintes, la gestion rationnelle des médicaments et la formation continue du personnel de santé. Ces directives visent à réduire la mortalité et à atteindre l’élimination du paludisme d’ici 2030.
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What recommendations did the assessment produce?
• Developing guidelines and plans to further the process of SRH and Hiv integration.
• Training stakeholders at different levels of the health system on how to integrate activities.
• Establishing mechanisms for collaboration/coordinati...on on SRH and Hiv at different levels.
• Developing plans for SRH and Hiv integration that include: situation analysis; feasibility studies; assessment of needs for reorganizing and reorienting services towards better integration; necessary tools (e.g. job descriptions, work plans); and tools to evaluate service quality and user satisfaction in relation to integration.
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