At a glance. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses in health systems worldwide and underscored the importance of building stronger, more integrated health systems to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to health crises. The critical moment that will determine countries’ resilienc...e against future shocks is now
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UNFPA supports the Youth Health Line (YHL), launched in 2012, as a nationwide, youth friendly health service to provide information and counseling for adolescents and youth on issues related to their health and reproductive health. The YHL is providing a vital service to young people around the coun...try who are dialing the toll-free number ‘120’ from any phone to speak to a professionally trained youth health counselor. These conversations are confidential, free of judgment, and do not require parental consent. The average reach of the YHL per year is 120,000 adolescents and youth served by full-time male and female counselors.
This Standard Operating Procedure for YHL provides a critical resource for the administration and day-to-day management. The SOP is designed to provide direction to all staff responsible for carrying out the administrative and managerial functions of the YHL. The SOP is intended to guide UNFPA Implementing Partners in running the YHL with a consistent approach to ensure improved access and quality of services provided to adolescents and youth in Afghanistan.
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Le port d'un masque facial CORRECTEMENT, en plus de bonnes pratiques d'hygiène des mains et d'un éloignement physique, peut aider à prévenir la propagation de #COVID19 aux autres.
Manuel pour les personnels impliqués dans la prise en charge pédiatrique du VIH
Learning objectives
• Promote respect and dignity for people with self-harm/suicide.
• Know the common presentations of self-harm/suicide.
• Know the principles of assessment of self-harm/suicide.
• Know the management principles of self-harm/suicide.
• Perform an assessment for self-...harm/suicide.
• Assess and manage co-morbid physical health conditions
• Assess and manage emergency presentations of self-harm/suicide.
• Provide psychosocial interventions to persons with self-harm/suicide.
• Provide follow-up sessions for people with self-harm/suicide.
• Refer to mental health specialists and links to outside agencies
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This document describes the essential interventions in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) that should be developed on an intersectoral basis in countries and communities. Its frame of reference is the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) intervention pyramid for MHPSS services. The pyr...amid shows different levels of support, ranging from social considerations, safety, and basic needs, to the provision of specialized services for the management of more severe conditions, as well as the probable volume of demand at each established level.
Available in Spanisch, Portuguese and English
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17 February 2021
During the second joint meeting of African ministers responsible for health, ICT and transport on the rollout of the Africa Against COVID-19: Saving Lives, Economies and Livelihoods campaign, a call was made to African countries to work together towards harmonizing travel entry and... exit requirements, and to increase mutual recognition and cross-border information exchange for enhanced surveillance
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Section 1, Introduction to Men's Reproductive Health Services, Revised Edition, is designed to help sites and health care workers address organizational and attitudinal barriers that may exist when initiating, providing, or expanding a men's reproductive health services program. It also provides bas...ic information on a variety of reproductive health issues relevant to reproductive health services for men, including sexuality, gender, anatomy and physiology, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections.
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Биполярное расстройство, известное так же, как маниакально-депрессивный психоз, является психическим заболеванием, которое характеризуется нетипичной сменой нас...троений, перепадами энергетического уровня и способности функционировать. Биполярное расстройство поддается лечению, и больные, страдающие этим заболеванием, способны жить полноценной и продуктивной жизнью.
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O uso de uma máscara facial CORRETAMENTE, além de boas práticas de higiene das mãos e distanciamento físico, pode ajudar a evitar a propagação do #COVID19 a outras pessoas.
In the kingdom of Bahrain, the national antibiotic committee will set the framework for the national response to AMR, especially bacterial resistance to antibiotics. It will be aligned with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, and with standards and... guidelines from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
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La Politique de protection de l’enfance de CBM s’appuie sur la Convention des Nations unies relatives aux droits de l’enfant de 1989 (et sur ses protocoles facultatifs), sur la législation allemande en matière de protection de l’enfance, sur les législations nationales des pays dans lesqu...els CBM mène ses actions ainsi que sur les normes proposées par la coalition Keeping Children Safe. Nous avons développé cette politique parce que garantir le respect de la dignité de tous les enfants et assurer leur sécurité comptent parmi les principes fondamentaux du travail de CBM. Dans le cadre de cette politique, est considérée comme enfant toute personne âgée de moins de 18 ans. CBM s’engage à créer un environnement garantissant la sécurité des enfants. Pour ce faire, nous investissons dans les ressources nécessaires à l’application des procédures détaillées dans ce texte.
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