UNAIDS calls on governments to live up to their commitment to develop nationally owned and led social protection systems for all, including floors; and scale up and progressively enhance coverage, adequacy and comprehensiveness, thereby improving the responsiveness and quality of interventions to ad...dress the needs and vulnerabilities of people living with HIV.
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The Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Handbook) has been developed to provide guidance on how to use the Checklist and conduct related legislative reviews and reform processes. While the methodology for using the Checklist needs to be tailored to each country’s context and respectiv...e needs, the Handbook is intended to provide general guidance on key steps to consider.
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The Community Action Research on Disability (CARD) programme in Uganda embraced and modified the EDR approach, recognising the need for including people with disability in the research process from concept to outcome, and nurturing participation and collaboration between all the stakeholders in achi...eving action-based research. T
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UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who release...d the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
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The Guide has been developed to enhance the knowledge capabilities of NDMAs and their local partners. This is accomplished by exposing them to the existing tools and services developed by the international community to facilitate effective disaster response to any scale of disaster (small, medium an...d large) and assist in comprehensive response preparedness
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Available in Englisch, French, Spanis, Portuguese and Arabic from http://principlesforcom.jimdo.com/
The “Principles” are intended to influence policy makers and other stakeholders responsible for implementing measures that affect the rights and needs of these children.
24 апреля 2020 г.
Рекомендации в отношении политики для Европейского региона ВОЗ
В настоящем документе описаны основные факторы, которые государствам-членам реком...ндуется
учитывать, принимая решения относительно коррекции масштабных ограничительных мер в области охраны общественного здоровья (таких как, например, ограничение свободы передвижения и повсеместное введение правила о физическом дистанцировании) и одновременного укрепления базового потенциала служб общественного здравоохранения (выявление, изоляция, тестирование и лечение всех пациентов и помещение в карантин всех лиц, с которыми они контактировали), мер личной защиты (гигиена рук и респираторный этикет) и норм личного физического дистанцирования (дистанция между людьми более одного метра). Переходный процесс должен осуществляться с учетом результатов оценки рисков, которую необходимо проводить на национальном, субнациональном и даже районном уровне, поскольку передача инфекции COVID-19
внутри одной и той же страны, как правило, носит неоднородный характер.
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This UNAIDS 2024 report brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of millions of lives and whether the world’s deadliest pandemic is overcome.
Over 1 million people, including an estimated 450,000 children, are affected by Myanmar’s decade-long conflict and are increasingly vulnerable to gender-based violence, exploitation, abuse, detention and trafficking.
Community transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is increasing in... Myanmar. COVID-19 requires a nationwide response focusing on critical urban and vulnerable populations, such as those in overcrowded camps for internally displaced persons.
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