Chapter 8, Prison and Health, published 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Recommendations for a Public Health approach and considerations for policy-makers and managers 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                These guidelines provide specific recommendations and expert suggestions — for national policy-makers and programme managers and their partners and stakeholders— on prioritizing, planning and providing HIV testing, counselling, treatment and care services for adolescents
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
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Prevention and control of communicable diseases in prison settings.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The guidelines acknowledge that overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and high inmate turn over contribute to the spread of infectious diseases within correctional facilities. The document states that voluntary HIV counselling and testing must be offered to all inmates when they enter facilities, duri...ng their incarceration at an inmate’s request and upon their release. All inmates must be screened for TB symptoms upon entry to facilities and at least bi-annually thereafter as well as upon release. Universal screening for anal, oral and genital STIs must be done at entry and upon self-presentation
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                                                                This resulting toolkit is a practical guide  intended to assist users to become advocates  for palliative care in a practical and effective 
way. It is not necessarily a resource to read  from cover to cover; rather, it can also be used  selectively to each reader’s needs to engage  audiences and... ensure that there is a real  understanding of the need for palliative care.  It should also be read in conjunction with the  supplementary resources listed at the end of  each of the toolkit’s sections.
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                                                                Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both prevention and treatment services, and is a crucial component of an effective response to the hepatitis epidemic. Early identification of persons with chronic HBV or HCV infection enables them to recei...ve the necessary care and treatment to prevent or delay progression of liver disease. Testing also provides an opportunity to link people to interventions to reduce transmission, through counselling on risk behaviours and provision of prevention commodities (such as sterile needles and syringes) and hepatitis B vaccination.
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                                                                Modern  healthcare  has  given  rise  to  extremely  complex  and  multifaceted   ethical   dilemmas.   All   too   often   physicians   are   unprepared  to  manage  these  competently.    This  publication  is  specifically  structured  to  reinforce  and  strengthen  the  ethical mindset and prac...tice of physicians and provide tools to find ethical solutions  to  these  dilemmas.  It  is  not  a  list  of  “rights  and  wrongs”  but an attempt to sensitise the conscience of the physician, which is the basis for all sound and ethical decision-making. To this end, you will find several case studies in the book, which are intended to foster individual ethical reflection as well as discussion within team settings.
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                                                                The standard operating procedures (SOP) for referral care cover all the refugee populations living in Lebanon. These SOPs outline the policies and procedures for referral care in Lebanon, including the limits in health assistance that can be provided.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Tuberculosis (TB) is, and should be, a curable disease; however, each year significant numbers of patients acquire or develop drug-resistant TB, which has a much lower cure rate. Patients with drug-resistant TB have a high prevalence of symptoms; hence, staff caring for these patients should h...ave some familiarity with palliative care, so that general palliative care principles are available to all patients. The timely identification, and addressing, of adverse events occurring during the treatment course is considered as general palliative care for those receiving curative treatment. This publication summarizes the general palliative care approach, which is recommended for use in settings and services that occasionally treat palliative care patients, but do not provide palliative care as the main focus of their work. The review focuses on 18 high TB priority countries of the WHO European Region.
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                                                                HIV/TB workplace policy and Implementation Strategy
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                UNAIDS 2016, Reference 
HIV care and support taking into account the 2016 WHO consolidated guidelines
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                2016 Update
Key population