With 71 million people forcibly displaced around the world and aid budgets woefully underfunded, how do humanitarian agencies decide whom to help and for how long?
Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jul [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200915
Infection control instructions call for use of alcohol-based hand rub solutions to inactivate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We determined the virucidal activity of World Health Organization–recommen...ded hand rub formulations, at full strength and multiple dilutions, and of the active ingredients. All disinfectants demonstrated efficient virus inactivation.
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Volumen 5 / Número 1 , 1025-1028 • http://www.revistabionatura.com
To describe the behavior of Tuberculosis/Human Immunodeficiency Virus co-infection in a cohort of people affected by sensitive Tuberculosis in Ecuador from 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2015. Results: The percentage of co...infected persons reached 11% in the whole period of study, with a range from 8.4% to 12.7%. Male sex shows the highest incidence rate, representing 76.7% at the rate of 1 man for every 3.3 women. The population with the highest incidence of patients is economically active; the age group of 25-34 years reaches 40.1%. The coastal zone of the country reports more than 75% of the coinfected patients. Conclusion: Increased HIV/AIDS screening should be increased for Tuberculosis, with particular emphasis on male sex and enhance the actions in the coastal provinces.
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In the light of the transmissibility of coronaviruses, and the global experience with MERS-CoV (ongoing) and SARS in 2003 which were also caused by coronaviruses, South African authorities have compiled this guideline document to support surveillance, case finding, diagnosis, management and public h...ealth responses to cases under investigation.
*Please note*
The interim guidelines are based on what is currently known about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The National Department of Health (NDOH) and National Institute for Communicable Diseases will update these interim guidelines as needed and as additional information becomes available.
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This paper looks at the increasing use of 'new psychoactive substances', a term which is defined differently by different people, but which is here defined as 'narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances made available or used from the early to mid-2000s for their psychoactive properties'
Series: Ser...ies|Drug Use| Volume 394, ISSUE 10209, P1668-1684, November 02, 2019
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In South Africa, young women and girls are exposed to extremely high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV infection. Given the links between the two epidemics, it is important that HIV prevention programmes also address violence against women and children. The Global Fund’s Young Women an...d Girls (YWG) programme is a multi-pronged HIV prevention programme targeting young women and girls and was implemented in 10 districts in South Africa from April 2016 to March 2019. This briefing paper reports on the lessons learnt from a process evaluation of the child protection component of the programme
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Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem 2019;27:e3086 DOI: 10.1590/1518-8345.2608.3086
Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO’s global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable globally.... We aimed to present data on patterns of paediatric AWaRe antibiotic use that could be used for local and national stewardship interventions.
www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 7 July 2019
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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change pp 47–66
This chapter reviews the emerging importance of pollen allergies in relation to ongoing climate change. Allergic diseases have been increasing in prevalence over the last decades, partly as the result of the impact of climate change. ...Increased sensitisation rates and more severe symptoms have been the partial outcome of: increased pollen production of wind-pollinated plants resulting in long-term increased abundance of pollen in the air we breathe; earlier shifts of airborne pollen seasons making occurrence of allergic symptoms harder to predict and deal with efficiently; increased allergenicity of pollen causing more severe health effects in allergic individuals; introduction of new, invasive allergenic plant species causing new sensitisations; environment-environment interactions, such as plants and hosted microorganisms, i.e. fungi and bacteria, which comprise a complex and dynamic system, with additive, presently unforeseeable influences on human health; environment-human interactions, as the consequence of a combination of environmental factors, like air pollution, global warming, urbanisation and microclimatic variability, which create a multi-resolution spatiotemporal system that requires new processing technologies and huge data inflow in order to be thoroughly investigated. We suggest that novel, real-time, personalised pollen information services, like mobile-app risk alerts, must be developed to provide the optimum first line of allergy management.
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In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat es im westlichen Raum eine ganze Reihe web-basierter Therapieangebote gegeben. Die Entwicklung und Erforschung eines der ersten web-basierten Therapiemanuale (Interapy) wurde in den Niederlanden unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Alfred Lange und Prof. Dr. Paul Emmelkamp ...vorangetrieben. Für die Nutzung im arabischen Sprachraum wurden diese Therapiemanuale von Prof. Dr. Christine Knävelsrud und Prof. Dr. Birgit Wagner übersetzt, kulturell angepasst und evaluiert.
Web-basierte Depression; Web-basierte Therapie Trauma
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Nature Reviews Microbiology Vol. 17 (2019)pp.51-62
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) technologies help to accelerate the
initiation of targeted antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections and could potentially
extend the lifespan of current narrow- spectrum antimicrobials. Althoug...h conceptually new and
rapid AST technologies have been described, including new phenotyping methods, digital
imaging and genomic approaches, there is no single major, or broadly accepted, technological
breakthrough that leads the field of rapid AST platform development
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Public expenditure on TUBERCULOSIS in EL SALVADOR, during the fiscal year 2018
Translating Community Research Into Global Policy Reform For National Action: A Checklist For Community Engagement To Implement The WHO Consolidated Guideline On The Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights Of Women Living With HIV
3rd edition | December 2018
Because of the limited access to more powerful diagnostic tools, there is a paucity of data regarding the burden of fungal infections in Burkina Faso. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of serious fungal infections in this sub-Saharan country. We primarily used the na...tional demographic data and performed a PubMed search to retrieve all published papers on fungal infections from Burkina Faso and its surrounding West African countries. Considering the prevalence of HIV infection (0.8% of the population) and a 3.4% incidence of cryptococcosis in hospitals, it is estimated that 459 patients per year develop cryptococcosis. For pneumocystosis, it is suggested that 1013 new cases occur every year. Taking into account the local TB frequency (population prevalence at 0.052%), we estimate the prevalence of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis at 1120 cases. Severe forms of asthma with fungal sensitization and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis are estimated to affect 7429 and 5628 cases, respectively. Vulvovaginal candidiasis may affect 179,000 women, and almost 1,000,000 children may suffer from tinea capitis. Globally, we estimate that roughly 1.4 million people in Burkina Faso (7.51% of the population) suffer from a serious fungal infection. These data should be used to drive future epidemiological studies, diagnostic approaches, and therapeutic strategies.
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Zule et al. Harm Reduction Journal (2018) 15:44 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-018-0249-3
Expert Consensus Report for Emergency Centres in
Western Cape
Disposer d’une information sanitaire de qualité est une quête
permanente de la DGESS du Ministère de la santé. Le niveau de
qualité des données de routine du système national d’information
sanitaire bien qu’en amélioration ces dernières années demeure une
priorité. Une des cause...s évoquée souvent pour justifier la faible qualité
des données est l’insuffisance de compétence des acteurs chargés de
la collecte et du rapportage des données dans les différentes
structures de soins. L’absence de formation des acteurs sur le SNIS
implique des erreurs de remplissage, de rapportage d’une part et
d’autre part une méconnaissance de l’intérêt des données de qualité
dans la prise de décision. Bien que cette justification soit fondée, on
est à même à se demander si c’est l’unique cause de la faible qualité des données. Certainement
pas. Le sens de la responsabilité et de l’intérêt porté à la qualité des données par les différents
acteurs aux différents niveaux influence la qualité des données. Imaginons un seul instant où chaque
mois, chaque responsable de structure, chaque acteur du SNIS apprécie la complétude, la qualité
d’un certain nombre d’indicateur. Le feedback qui sera fait contribuera à rehausser un tant soit peu la
qualité des données. Nous osons croire que cet exercice sera le quotidien de tout un chacun d’entre
nous. Engageons-nous dès à présent pour la qualité des données. Tout en vous donnant rendezvous au prochain numéro, je réitère mes encouragements à l’ensemble des acteurs du SNIS pour le
travail abattu au quotidien et aux partenaires pour leur soutien inconditionnel à la réalisation de nos
activités. Je souhaite à toutes et à tous, une très bonne lecture.
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PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202499. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202499
This was a school-based cross-sectional study conducted in 2015 among 305 school children aged 7–16 years from two primary schools located in Ilemela and Magu Districts, north-western Tanzania. Single stool and urine samples w...ere collected from each participant and examined for the presence of Schistosoma mansoni eggs, parasite antigen, and parasite DNA using KK thick smears, POC-CCA tests, and real-time PCR, respectively.
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