PowerPoint Slides for the Geneva IAPAC meeting , 13 October 2016 by Sabin Nsanzimana, MD -Division Manager, HIV, STIs and Viral Hepatitis Institute of HIV Disease Prevention and Control, Rwanda Biomedical Center AND Basel Clinical Epidemiology& Biostatistics and SwissTPH , University of Basel, Swit...zerland more

Manual for step-by-step risk management for safely managed sanitation systems. 2nd edition. This Sanitation safety planning (SSP) manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance to assist in the implementation of the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on sanitation and health and the ...2006 WHO Guidelines for safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture. The approach and tools should be applied to all sanitary systems to ensure that they are managed to meet health objectives. The SSP manual is targeted at a variety of users at different levels including; health authorities and regulators, local authorities, sanitation utility managers, sanitation enterprises and farmers, community-based organizations, farmers associations and nongovernmental organizations. more

Become familiar with One Health, a promising concept, and the effective solutions it provides for urgent health problems.

Discover approaches and advances in our fight against the malaria mosquito using Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM). On this three-week course, you’ll examine the rise of insecticide resistant mosquitoes and the resultant need for a new approach in the world’s fight against malaria transmi...ttance. more

FIND and Standard Diagnostics (SD) have developed a lateral flow rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to screen for T.b. gambiense HAT that is cheap and easy to use. The tests are packed individually and are stable at 40°C for up to 25 months; they are performed on fresh blood obtained from a finger prick..., and no instrument or electricity is required. The RDT detects host antibodies to infection in populations that are at risk, or in suspect individuals. Positive cases are subjected to further confirmatory methods to identify HAT patients. more

The objectives of the meeting were: 1. To step up the commitment of national authorities and technical and financial partners toWHO’s elimination objective for g-HAT. 2. To share achievements, challenges and views on the elimination goal among countries and implementing partners. 3. To assess t...he status of critical technical aspects to be solved in research and development of drugs and diagnostic tools, epidemiology, vector control and animal reservoirs. 4. To define the mechanisms for strengthening and organizing collaboration and coordination among stakeholders. more