Strengthening health financing to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage. Total Government Health Expenditure exceeds the commitment by African Union member states to commit at least 15% of their budgets to the health sector. With a sector allocation of 16.6% of total budget in 2022/...23 and average per capita spending estimated at US$407 (N$6,500.00), health spending in Namibia is one of the highest in SADC. The Government is thus encouraged to sustain this level of investment to safeguard the gains achieved and make progress towards SDGs. This could be achieved through the development of a national health financing strategy to mobilise additional and innovative resources for the sector.
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This operational guidance provides a structured approach to support countries in sustaining priority services for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in the context of reduced external funding. The guidance is intended for national governments, public health programmes, communit...y-led organizations, civil society, technical partners and donors working to safeguard priority services, support phased adaptation, protect health outcomes and preserve hard-won gains.
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Reducing the spread of HIV and improving care and treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS requires addressing social factors and behaviors that put people at risk. Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) goes beneath the surface to uncover the causes of behaviors, the social structures... that drive the epidemic and the factors that increase risk and vulnerability. FHI 360 experts are global leaders in both the response to HIV/AIDS and in the implementation of SBCC.
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HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS | (2022)9:295 | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01312-3 .
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly Southern and East Africa, has the highest AIDS deaths
and HIV-infected people in the world. Even though considerable effort has been made over
the yea...rs to study HIV transmission risk behaviours of different population groups in SSA,
there is little evidence of studies that have looked at pooled effects of associated HIV risk
factors among men, particularly in Southern Africa.
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Adolescents and young adults aged 10-24 remain underserved in the global response against HIV. Combination prevention, treatment and care programmes use a mix of evidence-based interventions to meet the current HIV prevention needs of adolescents and young adults. However, there needs to be a focus ...on priority interventions that are evidence-based, practical, contextual and sustainable. This document highlights interventions and recommendations that have passed through the evidence-based lens of the WHO.
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The ILO has joined forces with Gallup to carry out a groundbreaking global survey covering 50 countries that sheds further light on the causes of the persistence of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in the world of work.
Ce rapport présente les principaux résultats de l’OMS atteints en 2022 au Niger en étroite collaboration avec le Gouvernement du Niger, les partenaires et d’autres acteurs, dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du 13e PGT, et dont quatre piliers ont guidé les interventions de l’OMS, à savoir... l’instauration de la couverture sanitaire universelle, l’intervention dans les situations d’urgence sanitaire, la promotion de la santé et du bien-être des populations et le soutien au pays.
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Provisional recommendations May 2014
CORE Group has developed a module on cholera to address gaps in preparedness and response in at-risk countries and communities. The guide contains four different lesson plans and is complemented by flipcharts designed for use by community health workers. The lessons are aimed at mothers and carers o...f children under the age of five, as this age group is at increased risk of dying from cholera. The modules include measures that can be taken before, during and after a cholera outbreak
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Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long
been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still
kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas
of economically ...disadvantaged countries in Africa and Asia. Of all human cases, up to 99% are
acquired from the bite of an infected dog.
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Guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and the use of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-related infections among adults, adolescents, and children: recommendations for a public health approach : December 2014 supplement to the 2013 Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs... for treating and preventing HIV infection.
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This research aims to identify a core set of clinical skills for working in
a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) setting, and to discuss whether they are appropriate for task shifting to a new or an alternative cadre of rehabilitation workers.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16(10): e0009774. Although the practice of communication is often called upon when intervening asn involgvingcommunties affected by NTD's, the disciplinary framewokr of healt communication research has been largely absent from NTD strategies. To illustrate how practices conceptual...ized and developed within the communication field habe been applied in the context of NTD elimination, we conducted a scoping review focusing on two diseases currently targeted for elimination by the WHO: lymphatic filariasis and Chagas disease
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The goal of this Global Action Plan is to articulate synergistic actions that will be required to prevent HIVDR from undermining efforts to achieve global targets on health and HIV, and to provide the most effective treatment to all people living with HIV including adults, key populations, pregnant ...and breastfeeding women, children and adolescents. The Global Action Plan has five strategic objectives: 1) prevention and response; 2) monitoring and surveillance; 3) research and innovation; 4) laboratory capacity; and 5) governance and enabling mechanisms.
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