These guidelines provide new and updated recommendations on the use of point-of-care testing in children under 18 months of age and point-of-care tests to monitor treatment in people living with HIV; the treatment monitoring algorithm; and timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living w...ith HIV who are being treated for tuberculosis.
New recommendations launched today outline key new actions that countries can take to improve the delivery of HIV testing, treatment and care services by providing greater options for differentiated approaches such as, supporting HIV treatment start in the community, ensuring that children are diagnosed and treated early, and that viral load treatment monitoring is more accessible, focused and triggers clinical action
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                                                                L’Atelier de mise en œuvre de partenariat constitue une étape importante pour les Partenariats africains pour la sécurité des patients. Les équipes de chaque hôpital africain, suisse et anglais participant au programme ont assisté à l’atelier
dans le but de travailler ensemble dans leur...s partenariats afin de créer des projets de programme destinés à une mise en œuvre sur les deux prochaines années. Le personnel interne clé de l’OMS et les partenaires de la NPSA
(Agence nationale pour la sécurité des patients – Londres, Angleterre) et de THET (Groupe d’experts en éducation et santé tropicale) étaient également présents.
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                                                                L’accessibilité géographique et financière constante des médicaments essentiels de qualité,
sûrs et efficaces aux populations est un objectif majeur des politiques pharmaceutiques
nationales.
Pour atteindre cet objectif, le Ministère de la Santé du Burkina Faso a mis en place un systèm...e
public d’approvisionnement en médicaments essentiels qui repose sur la Centrale d'Achat des
médicaments essentiels et consommables médicaux (CAMEG) et ses agences commerciales
régionales et sur les dépôts répartiteurs de districts (DRD) avec un système de recouvrement
des coûts des produits pharmaceutiques.
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                                                                WHO Recommendations 2018 Update
The primary audience for these recommendations includes health professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health care guidelines and protocols (particularly those related to PPH prevention and treatment) and those involved in the provision of... care to women and their newborns during labour and childbirth, including midwives, nurses, general medical practitioners and obstetricians, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes, and relevant staff in ministries of health and training institutions, in all settings.
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                                                                The 5 years plan to scale up HIV Testing and Counselling Services in Malawi 2006-2010
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Strengthening Parmaceutical Systems. 2nd edition
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics are increasing in frequency, scale and impact. Health care facilities can amplify the transmission of emerging infectious diseases or multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) within their settings and communities. Therefore, evidence-based infection prevention ...and control (IPC) measures in health care facilities are critical for preventing and containing outbreaks, while still delivering safe, effective and quality health care. This toolkit is intended to support IPC improvements for outbreak management in all such facilities, both public and private throughout the health system. Specifically, this document systematically describes a framework of overarching principles to approach the preparedness, readiness and response outbreak management phases. The document also provides a toolkit of resource links to guide specific actions for each infectious disease and/or MDRO outbreak management phase at any health facility. This document is specifically tailored to an audience of stakeholders who establish and monitor health care facility-level IPC programs including: IPC focal points, epidemiologists, public health experts, outbreak response incident managers, facility-level IPC committee(s), safety and quality leads and managers, and other facility level IPC stakeholders.
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                                                                Adapted from well-established decision-making concepts and honed through practical application in resource-limited settings, the AFP Advocacy Portfolio includes:
1. Advocate for Family Planning, an introduction to AFP’s approach.
2. Develop a Strategy, featuring a tool to understand your context... and AFP SMART: A Guide to Quick Wins, our 9-step approach to developing a focused, collaborative advocacy strategy that leads to quick wins.
3. Implement a Plan, tools to monitor your impact and make your case to decision makers.
4. Capture Results, with the AFP Results Cascade: A User’s Guide, a monitoring and evaluation tool that provides instructions to track a quick win or series of quick wins to long-term impact, and case study writing guidance.
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                                                                The Extending Service Delivery (ESD) project has developed Healthy Timing and Spacing of
Pregnancy: A Trainer’s Reference Guide as a resource for trainers in developing in-service training
for facility-based healthcare providers and community health workers (chws) who already have
some basic ex...perience with and understanding of FP/RH. This is not a training manual, but a
reference guide which can be used and adapted by trainers based on whether or not trainees are facilitybased
or community-based. 
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                                                                Key questions
What is already known?
    Critical illness is common throughout the world and COVID-19 has caused a global surge of critically ill patients.
    There are large gaps in the quality of care for critically ill patients, especially in low-staffed and low-resourced settings, and mortal...ity rates are high.
    Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) is the effective lifesaving care of low-cost and low-complexity that all critically ill patients should receive in all wards in all hospitals in the world.
What are the new findings?
    The clinical processes that comprise EECC and the essential care of critically ill patients with COVID-19 have been specified in a large consensus among clinical experts worldwide.
    The resource requirements for hospitals to be ready to provide this care has been described.
What do the new findings imply?
    The findings can be used across medical specialties in hospitals worldwide to prioritise and implement essential care for reducing preventable deaths.
    Inclusion of the EEEC processes could increase the impact of pandemic preparedness and response programmes and policies for health systems strengthening.
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                                                                Adapted from the WHO's Decision-Making Tool for family
planning clients and providers
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Do
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Time for recognition of lay counsellors
Accessed November 2017
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                La Guinée a été le point zéro de la flambée récente de la maladie à virus Ebola. Le taux de mortalité attribuée à Ebola en Guinée était de 66 %, nettement plus élevé que les taux des deux autres pays ouest-africains les plus affectés : la Sierra Leone (32 %) et le Liberia (45 %). Face... à la fermeture des cliniques, aux patients qui évitent les établissements sanitaires de peur de contracter Ebola et aux patients présentant des symptômes semblables à ceux d’Ebola qu’on renvoie chez eux, les experts en matière de santé s’inquiètent que d’autres maladies, telles que le paludisme, la pneumonie et la fièvre typhoïde, ne seront pas soignées, et que des soins de routine comme ceux qui favorisent la santé maternelle et infantile ne seront pas fournis.
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                                                                Notre objectif est d’augmenter l’investissement financier et l’engagement politique nécessaires à l’accès pour tous à la planification familiale volontaire de qualité, à travers des techniques de plaidoyer fondées sur des résultats de recherche.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The overall goal of the programme, to reduce the malaria morbidity and mortality by 75% (using 2012 as baseline) by the year 2020, continued to be pursued in 2014. The following areas were identified as some of the priorities for the year: Malaria Case Management under which we have Malaria in Pregn...ancy (MIP), Home Based Care and Diagnostics. 
 
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