Key populations brief
Accessed November 2017
Time for recognition of lay counsellors
Accessed November 2017
Blueprint for EECA countries, first edition
Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017
Moving from accelerated burden reduction to malaria elimination in Zambia
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 7, No 2 | a770 | 06 December 2018
The Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy provide state-of-the-art knowledge and evidence on leprosy diagnosis, treatment and prevention based on a public health approach in endemic countries. The target audience of this document includes policy-makers in leprosy or infec...tious diseases in the ministries of health (especially but not limited to endemic countries), nongovernmental organizations, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, donors and affected persons
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Copenhagen, Denmark, 24–25 August 2017
Lessons from the STEP-TB Project.
Accessed November 2017.
National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Conrol Programme
CONCLUSIONS: The roles performed by CHWs are broad, varied and essential for diabetes and hypertension management. However, basic knowledge about diabetes and hypertension remains poor while training is unstandardised and haphazard. These need to be improved if community-based NCD management is to b...e successful. The potential of peer education as a complementary mechanism to formal training needs as well as support and supervision in the workplace requires further assessment
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As the nation’s public health leader, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively engaged in a national effort to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of climate change. Scientists from CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NC...EZID) are at the forefront of many of these efforts. This report highlights some of that work and also looks ahead to the important work yet to come.
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