UNICEF’s support for data collection: the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
Resources for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUD)
Promoting People's Health to Enhance Social-economic Development
Reprinted from Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, No. 10, october 2010
Including Therapeutic Food, Dietary Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation - 2nd edition
CBR Advisory Working Group | Co-ordinator: Karen Heinicke-Motsch
The 6th edition of the essential medicine list has been developed based on the 5th edition list of essential medicines, the National Standard Treatment Guidelines and Protocols 2013, list of laboratory commodities and List of Consumables used in public health facilities.
The provision of safe and efficacious blood and blood components for transfusion or manufacturing use involves a number of processes, from the selection of blood donors and the collection, processing and testing of blood donations to the testing of patient samples, the issue of compatible blood and ...its administration to the patient. There is a risk of error in each process in this “transfusion chain” and a failure at any of these stages can have serious implications for the recipients of blood and blood products. Thus, while blood transfusion can be life-saving, there are associated risks, particularly the transmission of bloodborne infections.
Screening for transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) to exclude blood donations at risk of transmitting infection from donors to recipients is a critical part of the process of ensuring that transfusion is as safe as possible. Effective screening for evidence of the presence of the most common and dangerous TTIs can reduce the risk of transmission to very low levels.
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