Vision 2030
Accessed: 17.11.2019
Advocacy achievements of the bridging the gaps global partners
Accessed: 17.11.2019
Bull World Health Organ 2015;93:457–467 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.147215
HIV testing
Policy Brief
July 2015
Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People
Guidance Brief
Accessed: 09.11.2019
Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr...esent important opportunities to promote health and risk reduction that need to be tapped.
Some recommended remedies:
Health ministries, not ministries of justice, should manage health care responsibilities
Ensure that testing is available, but not mandatory, for infectious diseases
Make prison health part of the broader public health agenda
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Editorial
Rev Panam Salud Publica 40(6), 2016
This paper has been commissioned by RedR to identify gaps in skills, technology, and knowledge in urban humanitarian response in order to inform RedR’s project Ready to Respond which is looking to address these gaps in two specific areas:
Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; Shelter res...ponse to earthquakes
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South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, EEJPH 2016, posted: 11 January 2016. DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-85
Extract from report of GACVS meeting of 29-30 November 2006, published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record of 19 January 2007
Emerging Infectious Diseases; Vol. 21, No. 11, November 2015