It focuses on nine major priority areas, namely:  Leadership and Governance for Health;  Health Service Delivery;  Human Resources for Health; Health Financing; Health Information Systems; Health Technologies; Community Ownership and Participation; Partnerships for Health Development; and    Researc...h for Health.
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                                                                In support of the African decade of disabled persons | 1st January 199 - 31st of December 2009
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                As a global community of +750 representatives of the world’s civil society, the C20 official Engagement Group of the G20 is submitting a list of policy priorities for the upcoming G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors meeting on July 18th and the G20 Extraordinary Sherpa Meeting on July 2...4th. The proposed recommendations take into account complimentary policy areas at the intersection of health and finance policymaking; including funding gaps, systemic, fiscal and financial priorities to put global finances at the service of global health.
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                                                                In  2005,  the World  Health  Organization  (WHO)  Member  States  adopted  the revised  International  
Health  Regulations  (IHR)  (2005).  The  Regulations  provide  a  unique public  health  framework  in  the 
form  of  obligations  and  recommendations  that  enable  countries  to  better  p...revent,  prepare  for  and  
respond  to  public  health  events  and  emergencies  of  potential international  concern,  including  chemical events. 
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                                                                you can find branded materials including immunization backgrounders, posters, social media posts and more to amplify your existing activities and facilitate any communications for the week. Please feel free to tailor and adapt materials to meet specific country 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                These standard operating procedures are intended to be used when a Member State wishes to request validation of national elimination of trachoma as a public health problem following implementation of the SAFE strategy,1 which comprises: surgery for trachomatous trichiasis, antibiotics to clear infec...tion,
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                                                                The power of the Global Drug Policy Index lies in its key objective: to score and
rank how countries are faring in different areas of drug policy as identified in the
UN report ‘What we have learned over the last ten years: A summary of knowledge
acquired and produced by the UN system on drug-r...elated matters’,1 and derived
from the landmark UN System Common Position on Drug
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                                                                In case of resistance to rifampicin, fluoroquinolones become the preferred category of second-line drugs. Unfortunately, quinolone-resistant strains of Mycobacterium leprae have also been reported in several countries, probably due to the extensive use of quinolones for treating several types of inf...ections. Clofazimine resistance is still rare but this antimicrobial cannot be given alone
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                                                                A United Nations System Commitment for 
Action to assist Member States delivering on 
the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                BMC Medicine (2015) 13:42 DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0263-6
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002439 
South Sudan has a high burden – among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa – of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This adversely affects the health and social and economic well-being of people in the country. The prevention, control and eventual elim...ination of many NTDs depend heavily on improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and, once there is access, on sound sanitation and hygiene practices. This is especially the case in NTD endemic communities.
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                                                                Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Occupational Integration of Child Survivors of Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of Child Labour | 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The main purpose of the meeting was to review tsetse control tools, activities and their contribution to the elimination of gHAT and the monitoring thereof. Seven endemic countries provided reports on recent and ongoing vector control interventions at the national level (Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’...Ivoire, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and Uganda). Country reports focused on the in situations implementing and supporting vector control activities, the tools and the approaches in use, the coverage of the activities in space and time and their impacts on tsetse populations. Future perspectives for vector control in the respective countries were also discussed, including opportunities and challenges to sustainability.
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