This report makes the case for a major new initiative—to rapidly recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers in Africa. Drawing on a vast body of evidence and substantial regional experience, the report shows how community health workers save lives and improve quality of life and ...how investments in community health workers effectively harness the demographic dividend, reduce gender inequality and accelerate economic growth and development. Indeed, the benefits of community health workers stretch from one end of the Agenda for Sustainable Development to the other.
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All photos in this report were taken by Ahmad Baroudi/Save the Children
National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program
Since the beginning of March 2019, Malawi has experienced flooding and sustained heavy rain caused by the Tropical Cyclone Idai weather system. According to IOM Malawi, 81,613 households (HH) have been affected across four districts in the south of the country, specifically Chikwawa (12,755 HH), Zom...ba (29,892 HH), Phalombe (22,848 HH) and Nsanje (16,118 HH).
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The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2013, 7, (Suppl 1: M6) 54-59
Parasites Vectors 14, 50 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04555-8
Key findings from a February 2021 survey from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC)
Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida 2015 (ENCOVI)
Each year WHO and UNICEF jointly review reports submitted by Member States regarding national immunization coverage, finalized survey reports as well as data from the published and grey literature. Based on these data, with due consideration to potential biases and the views of local experts, WHO an...d UNICEF attempt to distinguish between situations where the available empirical data accurately reflect immunization system performance and those where the data
are likely to be compromised and present a misleading view of immunization coverage while jointly estimating the most likely coverage levels for each country.
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Exhortacion Apostolic Postsinodal Amoris Laetitia sobre el amor en la familia SOBRE (2016)
Une étude de terrain internationale réalisée par des théologiens et des experts de santé africains et allemands
An international field study by African and German theologicans and health workers.
Amoris laetitia: Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on love in the family (19 March 2016)
Nachsynodales Apostolisches Schreiben uber die liebe in der familie (2016)