This bi-weekly brief details the latest developments in scientific knowledge and public health policy from around the world as well as updates to the COVID-19-related guidance from Africa CDC, WHO and other public health agencies.
The EU's air quality directives (2008/50/EC Directive on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe and 2004/107/EC Directive on heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air) set pollutant concentrations thresholds that shall not be exceeded in a given period of time. In case... of exceedances, authorities must develop and implement air quality management plans. These plans should aim to bring concentrations of air pollutants to levels below the limit and target values.
Selected EU standards and the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines are summarised in the table below. These apply over differing periods of time because the observed health impacts associated with the various pollutants occur over different exposure times.
The WHO guideline values are set for the protection of health, and are generally stricter than the comparable politically agreed EU standards.
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The project aims to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines to ensure greater access to and uptake in the vaccines through establishing healthy information ecosystems to address mis- and disinformation and vaccine hesitancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The bulletins are in French.
Globalization and Health (2021) 17:74 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00722-3
Internews’ Rooted In Trust (RiT) Project tracks COVID-19-related rumors circulating among social media users and vulnerable communities in Colombia, as well as other countries around the globe. The rumors are used to inform risk communication efforts by humanitarians and public health actors, and ...to support local media in disseminating more accurate and actionable information that responds to community questions and concerns.
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Die Deutsche Allianz Klimawandel und Gesundheit (KLUG) gründete sich im Oktober 2017 als Netzwerk von Einzelpersonen, Organisationen und Verbänden aus dem gesamten Gesundheitsbereich.
Dazu vernetzen sich die Akteure quer zu Sektoren und Hierarchien in der gesamten Gesellschaft und werden insbeson...dere auf kommunaler und lokaler Ebene in ihrem Umfeld aktiv. Klimaschutz und Abmilderung (Mitigation) der Folgen der Erderwärmung müssen in Forschung, Aus- und Weiterbildung integriert bzw. verstärkt werden.
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The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific analysis produced by two research organisations tracking climate action since 2009. We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Triaphon möchte in der aktuellen Situation seinen Beitrag zur Unterstützung leisten und so haben wir die „Dolmetsch-Nothilfe: Ukrainisch“ eingerichtet. Die gemeinnützige Triaphon gGmbH wurde von Ärzt*innen mit dem Ziel gegründet, um Patient*innen mit Sprachbarriere eine medizinische Versorg...ung auf Augenhöhe zu ermöglichen. Gegen Gebühr stellt Triaphon seinen Vertragspartnern aus dem Gesundheitsbereich geschulte Sprachmittler*innen rund um die Uhr zur Verfügung.
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Here you can download different charts about cases by world region, prevalence rates, and progress towards polio eradication and much more.
Polio is an infectious disease that is caused and transmitted by the poliovirus. Most infections do not lead to any symptoms, but—among the unvaccinated—...between 1 in 50 and 1 in 500 infections result in paralysis. For some it leads to death.
At the start of the 20th century, polio was endemic worldwide, with large epidemic outbreaks every year. But with the development of two vaccines in the 1950s, countries began eliminating polio one by one.
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Unterkunft, Basisinformationen oder medizinische Versorgung: Mit dem Hilfe-Portal „Germany4Ukraine“ bietet die Bundesregierung ukrainischen Geflüchteten eine zentrale und vertrauenswürdige digitale Anlaufstelle. Das Portal bündelt Informationen auf Ukrainisch, Russisch, Englisch sowie Deutsch... und unterstützt die Geflüchteten bei Einreise, Orientierung und dem Überblick über Hilfsangebote.
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Heatwaves, or heat and hot weather that can last for several days, can have a significant impact on society, including a rise in heat-related deaths. Heatwaves are among the most dangerous of natural hazards, but rarely receive adequate attention because their death tolls and destruction are not alw...ays immediately obvious
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Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of more than 1,500 civil society organisations in over 130 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social and racial justice. CAN convenes and coordinates civil society at the UN climate talks and... other international fora.
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Official Website with information in Ukrainian and English