Enhancing Men’s Role in HIV Prevention
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                DHS Working Papers No. 103
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Pandemics and outbreaks have differential impacts on women and men. From risk of exposure and biological susceptibility to   infection   to   the   social   and   economic   implications,   individuals’ experiences are likely to vary according to their biological  and  gender  characteristics  and...  their  interaction with  other  social  determinants.  Because  of  this,  global  and  national  strategic  plans  for  COVID-19  preparedness  and  response  must  be  grounded  in  strong  gender  analysis  and  must  ensure  meaningful  participation  of  affected  groups,  including    women    and    girls,    in    decision-making    and    implementation.
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                                                                Guidance statement
Recommendations on contraceptive methods used by
women at high risk of HIV
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The National Integrated Comprehensive Cholera Prevention and Control Plan (2017-2022) outlines Uganda's strategy to reduce cholera cases and mortality by 50% by 2022. The plan focuses on improving access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), strengthening disease surveillance, enhancing ca...se management, and implementing oral cholera vaccination (OCV) in high-risk areas. It emphasizes multi-sectoral collaboration, involving government agencies, NGOs, and local communities to ensure a sustainable response. Key interventions include community engagement, improved health services, and better outbreak preparedness, aiming for long-term cholera elimination in Uganda.
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                                                                Over the period 2015 to 2019, scaling up a package of selected nutrition-specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to cover 90 per cent of Sudan would: 
- Reduce the under-five mortality rate to 49/1,000 live births
- Reduce the prevalence of stunting to 25 per cent
- Reduce the ...prevalence of wasting (global acute malnutrition – GAM) to 6 per cent 
- Increase exclusive breastfeeding to 63 per cent
- Reduce iron deficiency anaemia among pregnant women to 26 per cent.
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                                                                A review of available evidence (2016).
28-29 June 2016; Geneva, Switzerland
The END TB strategy. 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Regional Eastern European and Central Asian project (TB-REP) Copenhagen, Denmark, 26–28 April 2016
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessment
In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) published the report Protecting health from climate change: 
vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting national or subnati...onal assessments of current and future vulnerability (the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could  increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes.
That guidance has been a very useful tool, applied to more than 50 countries and settings, and has  helped countries to prepare their health contributions to United Nations Framework Convention on  Climate Change national adaptation plans.
Since the launch of the guidance, WHO, technical partners such as Health Canada, and countries  have learned much in terms of its applicability in different countries, at national and local levels. 
At the same time, knowledge on climate change and health has increased.
WHO, the Pan American Health Organization and Health Canada have produced this updated version,  which aims to better support countries in their assessments by proposing a simpler tool that incorporates all lessons learned.
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                                                                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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                                                                In 2015, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda published the Rwanda Poverty Profile Report 2013/2014,which provided a detailed portrait of the extent and nature of poverty in the country, based on information collected by an integrated household living conditions survey (EICV4) undertaken b...etween October 2013 and September 2014.
This report complements the study by looking at the trends in poverty between 2010/11 and 2013/14.It is essential to examine changes in poverty over time, because one of the most important goals of economic Sustainable Development Goals is to eliminate severe poverty by 2030.
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                                                                (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 21,2013) 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Towards a world free of tuberculosis