There is an urgent need for safer, simpler, more efficacious and accessible treatment regimens for all forms of TB. The development of Target Product Profiles for TB treatment regimens (referred to as Target Regimen Profiles or TRPs) seeks to guide the drug development process towards important regi...men characteristics corresponding to the needs of end-users.
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La mise à jour 2017 du rapport du Programme commun de suivi de l'approvisionnement en eau et de l'assainissement présente les indicateurs et les estimations de base pour les objectifs de développement durable liés à l'approvisionnement en eau, à l'assainissement et à l'hygiène. Le rapport é...nonce les indicateurs des services d'approvisionnement en eau potable et d'assainissement "gérés en toute sécurité", ce qui va au-delà de l'utilisation d'installations améliorées et prend en compte de la qualité des services fournis. Pour la première fois, des estimations relatives à l'hygiène pour 70 pays sont incluses dans le rapport.
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In 2014, GHS/NACP, with support from UNICEF and other partners, conducted a situation analysis on paediatric HIV care and treatment in Ghana. The purpose of this analysis was to identify the gaps within the current delivery of paediatric HIV care and support system and develop a road map for effecti...ve implementation of Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) and to increase paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage. The analysis identified gaps such as lack of task shifting on ART services, low paediatric ART coverage, and poor linkage of ART, EID, and PMTCT services with other RCH - immunization and nutrition services.
In view of the findings of the analysis, it was recommended that an Acceleration Plan for Paediatric HIV Services be developed to address the barriers and bottlenecks identified during the assessment. At the current pace of paediatric HIV Services, it can be extrapolated that paediatric ART coverage will increase from 26% to only about 40% by 2020; Ghana will, therefore, fall short of the global target of 90-90-90 (UNAIDS concept).
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3rd Edition – July 2017
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BMC Public Health (2016) 16:766
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3455-5
Technical Update
HIV Treatment
July 2017
This report investigates the impact of potential misclassification of samples on HIV prevalence estimates for 23 surveys conducted from 2010-2014. In addition to visual inspection of laboratory results, we examined how accounting for potential misclassification of HIV status through Bayesian latent ...class models affected the prevalence estimates. Two types of Bayesian models were specified: a model that only uses the individual dichotomous test results and a continuous model that uses the quantitative information of the EIA (i.e., the signal-to-cutoff values). Overall, we found that adjusted prevalence estimates matched the surveys’ original results, with overlapping uncertainty intervals. This suggested that misclassification of HIV status should not affect the prevalence estimates in most surveys. However, our analyses suggested that two surveys may be problematic. The prevalence could have been overestimated in the Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey 2011 and the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2013-14, although the magnitude of overestimation remains difficult to ascertain. Interpreting results from the Uganda survey is difficult because of the lack of internal quality control and potential violation of the multivariate normality assumption of the continuous Bayesian latent class model. In conclusion, despite the limitations of our latent class models, our analyses suggest that prevalence estimates from most of the surveys reviewed are not affected by sample misclassification.
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The report aims to help policy-makers and programme managers identify the areas that need attention and to work towards effective implementation and enforcement of policies and legislations. The need for alcohol policy-specific infrastructures to support the alcohol policy process, including designa...ted responsible agency, policy and strategy, and law and regulation, is also required at the country level.
The report is presented in three sections. Section 1 gives an insight to the alcohol consumption situation in the WHO South-East Asia Region and cites the alcohol-related problems that the Region is facing. Section 2 illustrates the policy situation in the 10 areas of national action identified in the Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol and gives specific recommendations pertaining to these areas. Section 3 provides overall recommendations.
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Introduction
Chapitre A.6
Edition en français Traduction : Cristina Constantin Sous la direction de : Priscille Gérardin Avec le soutien de la SFPEADA
Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis and patient care
2017 update
Ce manuel donne une vue d’ensemble des connaissances scientifiques actuelles sur l’infection à VIH ainsi que des technologies et des outils utilisés pour prévenir cette infection, pour améliorer la qualité de vie des personnes infectées et pour réduire les effets du VIH sur les enfants et... leur famille. Le manuel présente aussi les stratégies nécessaires pour atteindre les personnes ayant besoin de ces interventions et définit leurs normes.
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L’utilisation de ce guide permettra un diagnostic de qualité de l’infection palustre, gage d’une bonne prise en charge nécessaire pour atteindre les objectifs ambitieux du PSN 2016- 2020 Tous ensemble, pour un Sénégal émergent sans paludisme pour un développement durable.
Les progrès substantiels et soutenus du Sénégal dans la lutte contre le paludisme constituent une réussite exemplaire en matière de santé publique et une source d’enseignements potentiels pour d’autres pays sur la voie de l’élimination. Ce document décrit trois facteurs principaux de s...uccès :(1) un leadership exceptionnel et un fort engagement des partenaires, (2) l’atteinte et le maintien de niveaux élevés de couverture des interventions, et (3) la promotion d’une culture d’utilisation des données; et explore plusieurs nouvelles opportunités prometteuses pour consolider et amplifier les succès des deux dernières décennies.
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El presente documento contiene los requisitos mínimos necesarios para el trabajo seguro en la red de laboratorios de TB del país, de acuerdo a las directrices emanadas del Laboratorio de Referencia Nacional de TB, correspondiente a la Sección Micobacterias en el Instituto de Salud Pública.
La ...estructura de la red de laboratorios se muestra en la siguiente tabla, con distintas denominaciones de acuerdo al criterio empleado para categorizarlos.
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