FIELD GUIDE for staff at the central, intermediate and peripheral level
La XV Reunión de la Comisión Regional de Certificación de la Erradicación de la Polio en la Región de las Américas se llevó a cabo del 25 al 27 de octubre del 2022 en Atlanta, Estados Unidos. Durante la reunión, La Comisión Regional de Certificación (RCC, por su sigla en inglés) analizó ...y validó 6 informes de contención y 4 informes anuales de los países que no entregaron el Informe Anual 2021 en tiempo para su revisión durante la XIV reunión. La RCC también se reunió con el programa doméstico de polio de los Estados Unidos para discutir la situación del brote de cVDPV2. Todos los miembros de la RCC analizaron y aprobaron los resultados de validación y el informe final de la reunión
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Health Policy and Planning, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 47–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz122
Colombia has an underreporting of 30% of the total cases, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimations. In 2016, successful tuberculosis (TB) treatment rate was 70%, and t...he mortality rate ranged between 3.5% and 10%. In 2015, Colombia adopted and adapted the End TB strategy and set a target of 50% reduction in incidence and mortality by 2035 compared with 2015.
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The DHS report itself explains the purpose was, “to obtain and provide information on basic indicators of social progress including fertility, childhood mortality, reproductive and child health, nutritional status of children, and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other health-related issues” in PNG. Th...is is important because a DHS then provides the evidence base for PNG officials themselves to track progress in PNG over time, compare trends with other comparable countries, and then allocate financial and human resources to where they are needed most.
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In many countries neonatal tetanus is responsible for half of all neonatal deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases and for almost 14% of al¡ infant deaths. It is estimated that in the 1970s more than 10,000 newborns died annually from neonatal tetanus in the Americas. Neonatal tetanus is prevent...ed by immunization and/or assuring clean delivery and post-delivery practices.
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Ausgabe 2015 (kommentierte Version); gemäß § 4 Abs. 2 des Gesetzes zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von Infektionskrankheiten beim Menschen (Infektionsschutzgesetz - IfSG
In dieser Version sind die wichtigsten Änderungen zur Vorversion der Falldefinitionen markiert und durch Randnotizen erläuter...t. Zudem enthält diese Version als zusätzliche Informationen die ICD-10-Kodierungen, die den jeweiligen Übermittlungskategorien entsprechen sowie einen Vergleich mit den EU-Falldefinitionen.
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gemäß § 4 Abs. 2 des Gesetzes zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von
Infektionskrankhei ten beim Menschen (Infektionsschutzgesetz - I fSG)
Available in: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Tajik, Vietnamese, Uzbek
http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/
Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Nervous System Disorders in Developing Countries.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2001.
The key to a lasting world free of all forms of poliovirus lies in rapidly interrupting all remaining endemic transmission of WPV in the endemic areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is the only way to ensure that such strains do not re-emerge globally through international spread. It lays the cor...nerstone for the eventual cessation of all oral polio vaccine use, in order to eliminate the long-term risks associated with variant poliovirus strains, which is the GPEI’s top operational priority. The target for certifying the
world free of all WPV remains end-2026.
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. MSF Essential Drugs Guidelines دليل عملي موجه للأطباء والصيادلة والممرضين والمساعدين الطبيين
Report of a global meeting on yaws eradication surveillance, monitoring and evaluation: Geneva, 29–30 January 2018. World Health Organization.
Many of the countries in the European Region receiving refugees from Ukraine are already offering vaccination services to children and adults. This is important to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission among people travelling or living in close quarters, to protect the refugees from diseases th...at may be circulating in the host country, and prevent any outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and polio.
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This new edition and fully updated publication replaces the 2012 UCG and is being circulated free of charge to all public and private sector prescribers, pharmacists, and regulatory authorities in the country