Defending Rights
Breaking Barriers
Reaching People with HIV Services
Global Aids Update 2019
The information in this report is up-to-date as of June 2016.
The report, which follows a field visit to the country between 28 May and 6 June, also emphasises the need for international organisations to be mindful of the long present efforts of Greek lawyers and NGOs in the field, and recommends... that new initiatives should be targeted and sustainable.
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Asia is home to more than half of the world’s 1.1 billion girls. Gender inequality in many parts of the region means that girls are often systematically disadvantaged and oppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. Girls’ development is hampered by child, early and forced marri...age and high adolescent pregnancy rates. Across the region, genderbased violence against girls and women constitutes a serious and widespread rights violation, particularly with regard to domestic violence, marital rape, and trafficking in women and girls.
Emerging data shows that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence against girls and women, particularly domestic violence, has intensified
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in Tackling the Migration Crisis under the safe third country and first country of asylum concept. Accessed at 5 April 2016
La méningite est mortelle et débilitante ; elle frappe brutalement ; elle a de graves conséquences sanitaires, économiques et sociales et touche tous les âges de la vie dans tous les pays du monde. La méningite bactérienne peut être à l’origine d’épidémies, entraîner la mort dans les... 24 heures et un patient sur cinq peut rester handicapé à vie à la suite d’une infection. La plupart des cas et des décès dus à la méningite pourraient être évités par la vaccination mais les progrès obtenus pour la vaincre sont bien moins rapides que ceux réalisés contre d’autres maladies à prévention vaccinale.
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The second edition of the Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE manual provides an updated resource for realistically increasing, improving, and supporting gender representation within trachoma elimination efforts at all levels. From the trachoma workforce to the ...patients, from trichiasis surgeons to schoolteachers, and from national to international managers and coordinators, the manual breaks down the various levels of trachoma elimination programming to highlight the areas where women and girls can have a greater impact in elimination effort
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UNICEF trucks water to the camps where people displaced by the conflict have temporarily settled. UNICEF also installed latrines, showers and water storage tanks in the camps and distributed family hygiene kits to protect children against waterborne diseases.
A regional consultation report and draft transition framework
Learning from the Use of Data, Information, and Digital Technologies in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response
Reporting Period 2010-2011
La Stratégie Nationale de Plaidoyer et de Mobilisation des Ressources en faveur de la Lutte contre le Paludisme 2024–2028 en République Démocratique du Congo vise à renforcer l’engagement politique, mobiliser des financements domestiques et internationaux et impliquer tous les secteurs (publ...ic, privé, société civile) pour réduire la mortalité liée au paludisme de 70 % et l’incidence de 50 % d’ici 2028.
Le document propose des actions concrètes : plaidoyer auprès des décideurs pour des budgets accrus, exonération des intrants antipaludiques, introduction du vaccin R21/Matrix-M, création de partenariats public-privé, implication des leaders communautaires et campagnes de sensibilisation via les médias. Il s’aligne sur la stratégie mondiale de l’OMS et promeut une approche multisectorielle, coordonnée par le Programme National de Lutte contre le Paludisme avec l’appui de partenaires comme l’USAID et Breakthrough ACTION.
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This strategy takes into account the policies formulated by sectors with cross-cutting interests in school meals, such as education, health, social protection and agriculture.The strategy further complements the provisions of the National School Health Policy and the asso...ciated National School Health Guidelines (2009) into a school meals framework with six strategic objectives. Above all, the strategy encourages inter-ministerial coordination, multi-sectoral planning, stable funding and monitoring and evaluation for home-grown school meals to all children in Kenya.
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Good practice examples from India