Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Global progress against cardiovascular disease (CVD) is flatlining.
Though rates of CVD deaths globally have fallen in the last three
decades, this trend has begun to stall and, without concerted
efforts, is at risk of reversing.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                There are indigenous communities at high risk in every country of the region. At stake are the lives of 45 million people who belong to more than 800 indigenous peoples. Of these, some 100 are spread across several countries, around 200 maintain voluntary isolation or are in initial contact, and nea...rly 500 are at risk of disappearing due to their reduced numbers. Due to their lower immune resistance, their lack of access to hospital care and the increasing penetration of extractive activities in their territories, indigenous communities in voluntary isolation or in initial contact are cause for particular concern.
Far from hospitals and the news cameras, indigenous people in Latin American become ill and die without access to the means needed to protect themselves. They face the pandemic in conditions of social exclusion, racism and discrimination, which highlights historical inequalities and extreme precariousness in basic and health services.
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                                                                5th revised edition.
This document provides a ranking of medically important antimicrobials for risk management of antimicrobial resistance due to non-human use. The current revision took place at the seventh meeting of the AGISAR held in Raleigh, United States of America in 2016.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The following Emergency Response Plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seeks to set out activities that will be undertaken by humanitarian actors in Ukraine over the course of 2020 to respond to the public health impact of the epidemic – as well as the indirect, socio-economic impact on people’s well-b...eing, which will span across many areas. Given the extensive public exposure of the COVID-19 threat, the response will cover the whole of Ukraine, while providing a distinct focus on Donetska and Luhanska oblasts that have been ravaged by an armed conflict for the last six consecutive years. The planned COVID-19 response in the two conflict-affected oblasts will be treated as an annex to the current Humanitarian Response Plan for Ukraine
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                                                                Report for the WHO Meningitis Guideline Revision (May 2014)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Clinical care for severe acute respiratory infection: toolkit: COVID-19 adaptation
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Jul 1; (6): 1–61 -Published online 2016 July 1
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems. Drawing from practitioner expertise across four WHO regions, this article outlines the targete...d actions needed at different stages of the pandemic to achieve the following goals: (1) PROTECT healthcare workers, (2) INTERRUPT the virus, (3) MAINTAIN existing healthcare services while surging their capacity, and (4) SHIELD the most vulnerable from socioeconomic shocks. While decisive action must be taken now to blunt the impact of the pandemic in countries likely to be hit the hardest, many of the investments in the supply chain, compensation, dedicated supervision, continuous training and performance management necessary for rapid community response in a pandemic are the same as those required to achieve universal healthcare and prevent the next epidemic.
BMJ Global Health2020;5:e002550. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002550
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                                                                What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in
crisis-affected contexts
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Este protocolo tem como objetivo fornecer informações aos profissionais de saúde para que a pessoa com tuberculose receba o devido acolhimento e tratamento, apresentando os fluxos indicados para as transferências dentro e fora do país.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                In 2007, WHO warned that infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging at a rate that has not been seen before. The potential for infectious diseases to spread rapidly results in high morbidity and mortality, causing a potential global public health treat of major concern.
Several factors are ...contributing to the (re)emergence of infectious diseases such as population growth, living in close contact with animals, frequent travelling, poverty, destructive ecological changes due to economic development and land use and climate change result in global warming.
Especially Africa is at a threat for (re)emerging infectious diseases due to the huge population growth (expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050) with rapid urbanisation. Additionally, people across and beyond the continent are excessively mobile which is combined with a weak health system. Moreover, the risk of (re)emerging infectious disease is further heightened by three newly adopted continental initiatives: African Continental Free Trade Area, Free Movement of Persons and African Passport and Single African Air Transport Market.
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                                                                This reference manual provides in-depth knowledge on the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management for specific hazards
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Orientations provisoires 
6 avril 2020
Le présent document résume les recommandations de l’OMS sur l’utilisation rationnelle de l’équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) dans les établissements de santé et lors des soins à domicile, ainsi que lors de la manipulation des cargaison...s; il évalue également les perturbations qui touchent actuellement la chaîne d’approvisionnement mondiale et les éléments à considérer pour la prise de décisions en cas de grave pénurie d’EPI.
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                                                                A   atual   pandemia   de   COVID-19 constitui   um   desafio   excepcional  e  sem  precedentes  para  que  as  autoridades  competentes,  com  responsabilidades  nos  sistemas  nacionais  de controlo da segurança dos alimentosa, possam continuar a desempenhar  as  suas  funções  e  atividades  ...de  rotina,  de  acordo  com  os  regulamentos  nacionais  e  as  recomendações  internacionais. Em   muitos   países, os   funcionários   das   autoridades competentes estão, em grande parte, trabalhando a partir de casa, usando o teletrabalho como prática normal, visto que todas as reuniões presenciais foram canceladas ou reagendadas  como  teleconferências.  É  um  desafio  manter,  sem interrupção, as atividades normais de rotina, tais como a inspeção das operações do negócio alimentar, a certificação das exportações,  o controlo  dos  alimentos  importados,  a monitorização   e   vigilância   da   segurança   da   cadeia   de   abastecimento   alimentar, a   amostragem   e   análise   dos   alimentos,     a     gestão     de     incidentes     alimentares, o aconselhamento     sobre     segurança     dos     alimentose regulamentos   para   a   indústria   alimentar,   para   além   da   comunicação  com  o  público  sobre  questões  de  segurança dos alimentos.
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