Testimonies from Humanitarian Workers with Disabilities.
By reading the first-hand accounts, we hear how persons with disabilities, not through any particular talent or skill but from unique knowledge gained through life experience, are ideally placed to provide insights, ideas and leadership, to s...upply essential data, and to fill the gaps in humanitarian response that cause this exclusion.
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Orientations provisoires 2 novembre 2020
Ces orientations provisoires sont une mise à jour de la version précédente publiée le 31 mai 2020, en anglais, sous le titre « Harmonized modules for health facility assessment modules in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: interi...m guidance ». Cette mise à jour a permis d’affiner et de développer davantage le contenu des modules.
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining
an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national
Weekly Epidemiological Record. This report summarizes application of the SAFE strategy against trachoma during 2023. It includes estimates of the global population at risk of trachoma blindness based on district-by-district data submitted to WHO by national programmes. Summarizing the epidemiologica...l situation in this way is inherently complex because, for any district, up to 3 serial estimates of prevalence may be valid at different times during a calendar year.
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Informe de reunión (Ciudad de Panamá, 21 y 22 de octubre del 2019)
Cureus 2024 Jan 16;16(1):e52358. doi: 10.7759/cureus.52358
This report investigates the impact of potential misclassification of samples on HIV prevalence estimates for 23 surveys conducted from 2010-2014. In addition to visual inspection of laboratory results, we examined how accounting for potential misclassification of HIV status through Bayesian latent ...class models affected the prevalence estimates. Two types of Bayesian models were specified: a model that only uses the individual dichotomous test results and a continuous model that uses the quantitative information of the EIA (i.e., the signal-to-cutoff values). Overall, we found that adjusted prevalence estimates matched the surveys’ original results, with overlapping uncertainty intervals. This suggested that misclassification of HIV status should not affect the prevalence estimates in most surveys. However, our analyses suggested that two surveys may be problematic. The prevalence could have been overestimated in the Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey 2011 and the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2013-14, although the magnitude of overestimation remains difficult to ascertain. Interpreting results from the Uganda survey is difficult because of the lack of internal quality control and potential violation of the multivariate normality assumption of the continuous Bayesian latent class model. In conclusion, despite the limitations of our latent class models, our analyses suggest that prevalence estimates from most of the surveys reviewed are not affected by sample misclassification.
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Indoor residual spraying (IRS) involves applying residual insecticide to potential vector resting sites on the interior surfaces of human dwellings or other buildings. The main aim of IRS is to kill vectors before they are able to transmit pathogens to humans. When carried out correctly, IRS has his...torically been shown to be a powerful intervention to reduce adult vector density and longevity for mosquitoes, sand flies and triatomine bugs and can reduce the transmission of vector-borne diseases.
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Tercera edicion .En esta tercera edición se actualiza la definición de la triquiasis tracomatosa según lo acordado en la cuarta Reunión Científica Mundial sobre el Tracoma (Ginebra, del 27 al 29 de noviembre del 2018), se agrega una descripción sobre cómo examinar el entropión, se mejoran la...s listas de instrumentos y material fungible necesarios para la cirugía, se amplía y se mejora la orientación sobre los cuidados posoperatorios, se incluyen ilustraciones actualizadas, se mejora la presentación en todo el libro, y se elimina el contenido redundante.
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Terceira Edição. A terceira edição do manual sobre intervenção de rotação tarsal bilamelar para o tratamento do entrópio devido à triquíase tracomatosa, publicado pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), apresenta várias atualizações e melhorias. Desde sua primeira edição em 1993... e a segunda em 2015, esta nova versão amplia o conteúdo inicial, incorpora avanços acordados na quarta Reunião Científica Mundial sobre Tracoma em 2018 e melhora significativamente a estrutura e apresentação do manual. Descrições detalhadas sobre o exame do entrópio foram adicionadas, listas de instrumentos cirúrgicos necessários foram otimizadas e orientações sobre cuidados pós-operatórios foram aprimoradas
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27 May 2021
All countries should increase their level of preparedness, alert and response to identify, manage and care for new cases of COVID-19. Countries should prepare to respond to different public health scenarios, recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing cases and o...utbreaks of COVID-19. Each country should assess its risk and rapidly implement the necessary measures at the appropriate scale to reduce both COVID-19 transmission and economic, public and social impacts.
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