Le port d'un masque facial CORRECTEMENT, en plus de bonnes pratiques d'hygiène des mains et d'un éloignement physique, peut aider à prévenir la propagation de #COVID19 aux autres.
La Iniciativa Medicamentos para Enfermedades Olvidadas (DNDi) es una organización internacional sin fines de lucro que proporciona tratamientos seguros, eficaces y asequibles para los pacientes más desatendidos, desde el laboratorio hasta su llegada a las manos de las poblaciones más vulnerables ...del mundo.
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The document is a pocket guide for establishing and operating a Cholera Treatment Center (CTC). It provides guidelines on selecting a location, triaging patients based on dehydration severity, infection control measures, and ensuring sufficient medical supplies. The guide emphasizes maintaining hygi...ene, proper waste management, and security while offering detailed protocols for treating moderate and severe cases of cholera. It is intended to support healthcare workers in efficiently managing cholera outbreaks.
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“Effective Altruism” — What it is, how philanthropic foundations use it and what are its risks and side-effects
Trichiasis is when the eyelashes turn inward towards the eye and scratch the eye. All the lashes may turn in and rub, or it may be just a few eyelashes. The person with trichiasis usually feels pain, like something is in the eye before the vision is damaged,
blindness will be prevented.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium V.
cholerae. It has a short incubation period of a few hours to 5 days. It is endemic in some countries, frequently
showing seasonal variations in the number of reported cases. Cholera a...lso has the potential to cause explosive
outbreaks which may be localized or may expand to large geographic areas
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Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers. Part B
По данным ВОЗ профилактика и борьба с инфекциями (ПКИЗ) –это научный подход и практическое решение, призванное предотвратить вред, который может быть причин...н инфекцией пациентам и медицинским работникам. Он основывается на исследовании инфекционных заболеваний, эпидемиологии, социологии и укреплении системы здравоохранения. ПКИЗзанимает уникальное положение в области обеспечения безопасности пациентов и общего охвата качественными услугами по охране здоровья, поскольку касается медицинских работников и пациентов при каждом контакте с системой здравоохранения.
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The international community sits at the tipping pointof a post-‐antibiotic era, where common bacterial infections are no longer treatable with the antibiotic armamentarium that exists. In South Africa, t...he identification of the first case of pan-‐resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae(Brink et al, J Clin Microbiol. 2013;51(1):369-‐72) marks a watershed moment and highlights ourtip of the antibiotic resistance ‘iceberg’ in this country. Multi-‐drug resistant (MDR)-‐bacterial infections, predominantly in Gram-‐negative bacteria such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosaand Acinetobacter baumanniiare now commonplace in South African hospitals. Whilst a number of expensive new antibiotics for Gram-‐positive bacterial infections have been manufactured recently (some of which are licenced for usein South Africa), no new antibiotics active against Gram-‐negative infections are expected in the next 10-‐15years. Hence what we have now, needs conserving
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A technical and environmental comparative overview of common shelter typologies found in settlements across UNHCR operations