This guide provides national stakeholders and advocates with information and guidance to update the national essential medicines list to include a new commodity, a new indication, or a new formulation based on the available evidence and based on country need and disease burden. While the actors, tim...eline, and process may vary from country to country, this guide presents the broad steps involved in revising an EML for any health commodity. Additional resources and a glossary are included to provide supplemental information and to clarify key terms.
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UGANDA NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAMME
After Workplace exposures and Sexual Assault
| DIRECTORATE: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES
| DIVISION: PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
| SUB-DIVISION: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
Accessed November 2, 2017
Evidence from Low and Middle Income Countries
Department of Behavioural Medicine, Lagos State University College of Medicine Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria
Global Mental Health (2015), 2, e5, page 1 of 12. doi:10.1017/gmh.2015.8;
Received 29 January 2015; Revised 8 April 2015; Accepted 15 April 2015
This is the first national Policy to combat AMR in Cambodia. It was developed based on conclusions and recommendations of a country situaytion analysis.
Accessed February 6, 2020
Veterinarians are leaders and stewards in preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics for animals and people. Working with animal owners and producers, veterinarians can slow antibiotic resistance by implementing disease prevention strategies and improving the use of antibiotics while also guarante...eing high-quality medical care for animal patients.
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In aquaculture, antibiotics have been used mainly for therapeutic purposes and as prophylactic agents. The contribution to antimicrobial resistance of antibiotics used in aquaculture is reviewed here, using a risk analysis framework. Some recommendations on responsible conduct in this context are pr...oposed, aimed at diminishing the threat of build up of antimicrobial resistance.
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The toolkit presents step-by-step guidance that district health teams (DHTs), district leaders, MOH/UNEPI, immunisation partners, and civil society organisations (CSOs) can use to engage NHS and maximise the benefits of their participation in strengthening RI through activities such as community dia...logue meetings. Tables and annexes outline this process
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health concern and a food safety issue. When pathogens become resistant to antimicrobial agents they can pose a greater human health risk as a result of potential treatment failure, loss of treatment options and increased likelihood and severi...ty of disease.
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UNAIDS/WHO Working group
HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance 2015 / Reference
Your healthcare team has decided you or your loved one has an infection that requires antibiotics, or needs antibiotics to prevent an infection in certain circumstances, such as before surgery - Fact Sheet for Patients
Supplement Article
WHO Guidelines for HIV PEP • CID 2015:60 (Suppl 3), S161 - S164
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Policy Brief
November 2015