Recognizing the extent to which the COVID-19 outbreaks affects women and men differently is hugely important. Some preliminary data suggested that more men than women are dying, potentially due to sex-based immunological differences, higher rates of cardiovascular disease for men and lifestyle choic...es, such as smoking. However, the experiences and lessons learned from the Zika and Ebola outbreaks and the HIV pandemic demonstrate that robust gender analysis and informed, gender-integrated response are vital to strengthen the access and acceptability of the humanitarian services needed to meet the distinct needs of women and girls, as well as men and boy and LGBTI people.
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Universal health coverage ensures everyone has access to the health services they need without suffering financial hardship as a result. In December 2012, a UN resolution was passed encouraging governments to move towards providing universal access to affordable and quality health care services. As ...countries move towards it, common challenges are emerging -- challenges to which research can help provide answers.
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Inclusive Project Cycle Management
French version of "Developing Pharmacy Practice" - WHO/FIP Joint handbook - Ce manuel expose un nouveau paradigme de pratique pharmaceutique. Il a pour but de guider les enseignants en pharmacie pour qu’ils intègrent cette nouvelle pratique pharmaceutique, de former les étudiants ...en pharmacie et d’aider les pharmaciens en exercice à actualiser leurs compétences. Ce manuel, qui rassemble outils pratiques et théorie, a été conçu pour répondre à un besoin précis : définir et développer les soins pharmaceutiques, ainsi que de permettre une meilleure compréhension de ce concept à tous les niveaux.
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases September 2014 | Volume 8 | Issue 9 | e3016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003016
COVID-19 Management Guide -Version June 2021
dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19
This manual is addressed to health care providers dealing with Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the disease, its clinical presentation and its surgical management. The manual is aimed particularly at district health care providers. A... comprehensive protocol, adapted to each form and stage of the disease, is presented together with comments on the levels of resources and capabilities necessary
to shorten the length of treatment, to prevent complications and to minimize undesired sequelae and thus to obtain the best possible outcome for each patient. Some sections include advice relevant to surgeons (e.g. relating to bone infection). However, the level to which particular comments are intended to apply should be clear from the context.
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The guidebook can be used by any care giver who comes in contact with children on a daily basis and who have the primary or secondary responsibility of taking care of the children. Parents, teachers, anganwadi workers, child care institutions, hospitals can use this guidebook to help a child who is ...in need of care and protection. This guidebook can also be used by those who meet a child by accident who is in need of protection immediately. They can follow the steps mentioned in the guidebook that can be followed to help the child in need. Paragraph about the child protection systems with an objective of creating a safe and safe environment of children, the state has established systems at center and district level which one can go to for providing protection of children. These systems contains various bodies, units, schemes and law which create a safety net for children.
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L'antibiorèsistance constitue actuellment un problème de santè puplique en Tunisie. En effet, depuis une quinzaine d'anneés, notre pays fait face á un accroissment global des rèsistances bactériennes aux agents antimicrobiens. Ce phénoméne qui concerne également la majorité des pays, est ...dû á l'apparition et l'extension de nouveaux mécanismes de résistance, rendant inefficaces les traitements actuellment disponibles.
République Tunienne - Ministére de la santé
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Una Colaboración en Investigación entre el Refugee Law Initiative y Save the Children
La participación de las poblaciones afectadas y las
metodologías participativas han surgido como una
tendencia dominante en el discurso de la rendición
de cuentas humanitaria de una amplia gama de
organiz...aciones de asistencia y sus donantes. Este
estudio analiza cómo Save the Children Colombia
puede trabajar en el fomento de la participación
significativa de los niños, de las niñas y de los
adolescentes en todas las etapas de su programa,
y cómo esto se puede poner en práctica para el
aprendizaje organizacional, la adaptación y el
programa de rendición de cuentas.
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La implementación de la presente Norma Nacional y Manual de Procedimientos Técnicos de la Leishmaniasis en el país, permitirá al personal de salud del sistema público y privado fortalecer sus capacidades técnicas y operativas a través de la estandarización y unificación de estrategias y acc...iones para mejorar la prevención, atención, control, vigilancia entomológica y epidemiológica de esta enfermedad de manera oportuna y eficiente. Así mismo promoverá el cumplimiento de la Gestión Participativa y de Atención en Salud a través de la participación e involucramiento de la sociedad civil en la adopción de conductas prevenibles y de atención oportuna, así como demandar mayor acceso a la salud a través de la abogacía ante las Autoridades Locales y Municipales para el fortalecimiento en la otorgación de recursos humanos, insumos, infraestructura y medicamentos para este fin.
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The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance Diagnostic Workstream has developed a communications piece listing all commercially available diagnostics for schistosomiasis
The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-19 response has disrupted services for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes, communicable diseases such as malaria, and much-needed services for mental health. Combined with... a loss of income, many older people are unable to get the medicines they need.
A Summary is available in Russian and Arabic
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