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A Report on the Application of the HIV Stigma index in the Western highlands and Chimbu provinces
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The U.S. President‘s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS VOL. 13 NO. 1 2016
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2016.1226942
The GHS Index is intended to be a key resource in the face of increasing risks of high-consequence and globally catastrophic biological events and in light of major gaps in international financing for preparedness. These risks are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world; increasing ...political instability; urbanization; climate change; and rapid technology advances that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens.
Key findings from the study of 195 countries:
• Out of a possible 100 points, the average GHS Index score across 195 countries was 40.2.
• The majority of high- and middle-income countries do not score above 50.
• Action is urgently needed to improve countries’ readiness for high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks.
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Practical Guidance for collaborative interventions
This paper brings together lessons from interviews with humanitarians and local responders, as well as existing literature, about the use of quarantine in urban environments during the humanitarian response to the Ebola Crisis