Cureus 16(2): e53933. DOI 10.7759/cureus.53933
Last update: 2 April 2020
Outstanding child and adolescent TB priorities include the need to: find the missing children with active TB and link them to TB care; prevent TB in children who are in contact with infectious TB cases (through implementation of active contact investigation and provision of preventive treatment); an...d advance integration within general child health services, including maternal and child health/ reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, HIV, nutrition and other programmes.
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Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE)
Source: World Health Organisation
Early detection, assessment and response to acute public health events:
A global Pandemic, Preparedness and Response (RRR) architecture
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an additional and critical challenge in a fragile humanitarian context, where the population is already highly vulnerable and lives in often overcrowded settlements where distancing is impossible, and with limited access to basic health services and hygiene. Further sprea...d of COVID-19 in the EHoA region will burden the already complex humanitarian situation with devastating consequences.
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