Conflicts and disasters, including pandemics, affect women and men in all their diversity differently, and women and girls often suffer the most. Crisis-related hardships combine and compound pre-existing disadvantages, for example, they often cause women’s working conditions to worsen while incre...asing their overall workload and care responsibilities. At the same time, crises can give rise to changes that enable women to take up roles that were previously available only to men, and crises can open opportunities to address existing gender-based discrimination and violations of rights.
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                                                                Nat Med (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01381-y
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Interim Framework for the South-East Asia Region 28 October 2020
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This report reviews and analyses the Affordable Medicines Programme, which was introduced in Ukraine in April 2017 to provide patients with improved access to 23 outpatient medicines for the treatment of chronic noncommunicable diseases. The evaluation combines both quantitative and qualitative anal...ysis. The findings confirm that the Programme has contributed to a significant increase in access to needed outpatient medicines in Ukraine. Further, while implementation was successful overall, uptake across regions was uneven. The report concludes by listing a number of policy options to support the sustainability and expansion of the Affordable Medicines Programme.
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                                                                This third regional report discusses gaps and challenges in reducing the harmful use of alcohol and how countries can reverse current trends in a cost-effective and expedited way.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Globalization and Health201612:63; DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0195-3
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                For the 24th consecutive year, PAHO has published the report Health Situation in the Americas: Core Indicators featuring the latest information on key indicators for the Region of the Americas. This 2018 edition includes data on the 82 core indicators for the countries, territories, and sub regions ...of the Americas, grouped into the following categories: demographic-socioeconomic, health status, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems. Information is also presented on 22 indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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                                                                 Education in emergencies is a young area; the evidence of its impact is often anecdotal, and although its status as a humanitarian concern has gained legitimacy in recent years, it has yet to be accepted across the humanitarian community. Much more needs to be done to enhance our understanding of t...he links between education and child protection in emergency situations.
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                                                                UNAIDS Series: Engaging uniformed services in the fight against AIDS - Case Study 1
Fighting AIDS
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Desk Review and Recommendations for Private Sector Engagement
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Indiscriminate attacks on health care have contributed to an epic humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. A new report tracks these attacks in the hope of holding perpetrators on all sides accountable.
 
It details how both Houthi forces—with their use of wide-area impact weapons—and the Saudi-Emir...ati coalition—with their aerial attacks—have flagrantly disregarded the special status of health facilities and personnel in conflict zones.
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                                                                Report of a regional workshop, New Delhi, India, 29–30 September 2014
To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease and its subsequent problems, the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia organized a regional workshop on sodium intake and iodized salt for Member States in the South-East Asi...a Region. The general objective of the workshop was to strengthen an integrated approach for sodium reduction and salt iodization programmes in the Member States of the Region. The specific objectives included reviewing the current sodium reduction and salt iodization strategies in the Member States of South-East Asia, provide training to the participants in standardized approaches for dietary estimation of salt/sodium and urinary iodine estimation.
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                                                                30th World AIDS Day Report
STAR Initiative, Unitaid and World Health Organization December 2018