DHS Analytical Studies No. 40
This tool provides a quick and simple way to calculate and subsequently order the new cholera kits and modules.
The tool is best suited to estimate needs relating to cholera preparedness.
The tool uses pre-defined scenarios based on available population data, pre-defined attack rates as well as ...the number of health care facilities available. It will help to calculate the number of mandatory essential kits for a cholera response; the number of complementary modules if necessary, including the number of cholera beds as well as estimations on costs for goods and freight from supplier till the port of entry in a particular country.
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Climate change is a public health crisis – impacting our weather and environment, along with the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. The most vulnerable members of our communities – children, people of color, the poor, people with disabilities or chronic disea...ses, and the elderly – are the ones who suffer the most.
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Standard Operating Procedure
The EYE strategy is a comprehensive and long-term strategy built on lessons learned that aims at ending yellow fever epidemics by 2026, and consists of three strategic objectives:
protect at-risk populations;
prevent international spread; and
contain outbreaks rapidly.
Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa due to population growth, ageing and westernisation of lifestyles. In this piece, we use data from Mozambique over a 50-year period to illustrate cancer epidemiological trends in low-income and middle-income countries to hypothesise ...potential circumstances and factors that could explain changes in cancer burden and to discuss surveillance weaknesses and potential improvements. This epidemiological transition deserves increasing policy attention.
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Issues in Educational Research, 26(1), 2016
Antibiotics 2022, 11(3), 329; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11030329.
The authors found that the most-represented antibiotics on the Rwandan market were amoxicillin, co-trimoxazole and cloxacillin. No counterfeit antibiotics were found in this study. However, substandard batches with moderate ...deviations were found, suggesting that regular quality control of antibiotics is needed in Rwanda.
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Locate, test, treat and retain (L2TR) Ghana campaign. 90-90-90 ending the AIDS epedemic by 2030
Die medizinische Versorgung von krebskranken Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine ist hierzulande prinzipiell gewährleistet, wie eine Befragung onkologischer Schwerpunktpraxen zeigt. Dabei bestehen jedoch viele Herausforderungen, die die behandelnden Ärztinnen und Ärzte meistern müssen.