Ebola interventions: The intervention to combat Ebola aims to stop human-to-human transmission. The package is composed of five elements necessary to control the spread of the disease: care to patients, contact monitoring, safe burials, laboratory support and social mobilisation.
The document al...so describes key information on Ebola virus disease, patient care, contact tracing and monitoring, safe and dignified burial, laboratory diagnosis.
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The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MoEAC) has been implementing the Integrated School Health Programme in various forms since before the country attained political independence in 1990. School health goes beyond the physical health of the learner, in that it includes the holistic wellbeing... of the individual learner, meaning that the school environment should be safe and conducive to learning. The National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF) is an exciting dimension of the Integrated School Health Programme. The Programme focuses on promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of learners and other school stakeholders in Namibia, and the NSSF was developed to provide practical guidance to the schools and school stakeholders on how to systematically improve the standards of school safety, and how to develop a culture of care in any school.
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UNAIDS 2014 | Guidance Note
Sustaining and Expanding Activities to Shift Social Norms and Care Practices for Preterm and Low Birthweight Babies.
Khanda ndi Mphatso (KnM), translated as “A Baby is a Gift”, a SBCC campaign intended to improve newborn health by shifting norms around the value of newborns and promoting Kangar...oo Mother Care (KMC) for preterm and low birthweight (PTB/LBW) babies.
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Advocacy ,Social Mobilization ,Behavior Change Communications
Reporting Period 2010-2011
The WHO SAGE values framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination is intended to offer guidance on the prioritization of groups for vaccination when vaccine supply is limited. It provides a values foundation for the objectives of COVID-19 vaccination programmes and links t...hose to target groups for vaccination. This information is valuable to countries and globally while specific policies will be developed once vaccines become available.
This document it available in Arabic, Chinese English, French, Portuguese and Russian
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From choice, a world of possibilities
Want to change the world? Here's how...
"i asked: 'Why doesn't somebody do something?' Then I realized I was somebody"
In Tanzania, institutional efforts to combat HIV/AIDS started in 1985 by establishing a National Taskforce within the Ministry of Health. This was so because the HIV/AIDS epidemic was first perceived as a health problem, and the initial control efforts were formulated and based within the health sec...tor. In 1988, the task force was transformed into a fully-fledged National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).
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Accepting and Supporting Ebola Survivors, Orphans And Families Of Ebola Patients In The Community A Toolkit For Social Mobilizers And Communicators