A guide for practical implementation in adult and pediatric emergency department and urgent care settings
Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, health promotion, and health management and are often the unsung heroes in health care facilities and emergency response. Despite... the critical role they play in health care, there is a nursing shortage across the world that will affect the delivery of competent nursing care. This fact sheet highlights key action points for targeted investment in the nursing workforce and calls on Member States to strengthen nursing within the context of their own country efforts. Suggestions for action and strategies for strengthening the nursing workforce in primary health care services are through investment in education, jobs, leadership, and service delivery are provided.
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This document is developed using technical input from the Interim Guidance on Scaling-up COVID-19 Outbreak in Readiness and Response Operations in Camps and Camp-like Settings and Key Considerations for Selecting Health Infrastructure for the Response to COVID 19 in addition to other tec...hnical guidance documents developed by WHO and referenced accordingly.
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Using data from two surveys and 164 countries, this research brief describes the educational strategies countries are putting into place, or plan to, in order to mitigate learning impacts of extended school closures, particularly for the most vulnerable children. In addition, it highlights emerging ...good practices.
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Service Availability and Readiness Assessment Tool
The publication draws on pre-COVID data to highlight how children with disabilities face greater risks in the midst of this pandemic. It documents what has happened to services for children and adults with disabilities across the world and includes examples of what has been done to address disruptio...ns in services. It also discusses the challenges in generating disability-inclusive data during the pandemic.
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USAID Office of HIV/AIDS
March 8-9, 2016
Statistical Report No 25: 2014
This Preventing SRGBV guide is intended to enable you to facilitate all 5 days of the course along with the classroom presentation and the participants’ workbook. It includes suggestions for talking points, guidance for activities, and say/do/tell cues and help for implementing activities. The ide...al number of participants is 18-20 – less than that could mean the discussions are not meaningful enough and more than that might mean you are unable to help everyone express themselves.
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This is a moment of reckoning in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. For our Eighth Replenishment, the Global Fund needs US$18 billion to save 23 million lives, cut the death rate from the three diseases by 64% and help build a healthier, safer and more equitable world.