Capacity Project Gender Research Brief | In Lesotho, as in many other countries, the HIV and AIDS care burden falls on the shoulders of women and girls in unpaid, invisible household and community work. This gender inequity in HRH needs to be addressed to ensure fair and sustainable responses to the... need for home and community-based HIV/AIDS care and support. The Capacity Project addressed these issues through a study of men as providers of HIV/AIDS care and support.
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A GUIDE FOR HEALTH WORKERS AND AUTHORITIES IN NIGERIA
The report focuses on antibacterial resistance (ABR) in common bacterial pathogens. There is a major gap in knowledge about the magnitude of this problem. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective revention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, para...sites, viruses and fungi. This WHO report, produced in collaboration with Member States and other partners, provides for the first time, as accurate a picture as is presently possible of the magnitude of AMR and the current state of surveillance globally. It examines the information on AMR, in particular antibacterial resistance (ABR), at country level worldwide.
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Accessed 15th of October 2015
The Dublin Regulation (Regulation No. 604/2013; sometimes the Dublin III Regulation; previously the Dublin II Regulation and Dublin Convention) is a European Union (EU) law that determines the EU Member State responsible to examine an application for asylum seekers seeking international protection u...nder the Geneva Convention and the EU Qualification Directive, within the European Union.
For versions in other european languages go to http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1445168308626&uri=CELEX:32013R0604
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This report aims to estimate the economic cost of providing regular access to healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation, compared with the cost of providing treatment in emergency cases only. Two specific medical conditions – hypertension and prenatal care – were selected as examples, an...d their associated costs were calculated using an economic model. This model was then applied to three EU Member States: Germany, Greece and Sweden. The testing suggests that providing access to regular preventive healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation
would be cost-saving for governments.
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Stellungnahme der Arbeitsgruppe AWMFLeitlinie Tuberkulose im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Diagnostik, Prävention und Therapie unter Federführung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie.
Monatsschr Kinderheilkd 2015 · 163:1287–1292 DOI 10.1007/s00112-015-0007-5 © Deutsche Gesel...lschaft für Pädiatrische
Infektiologie 2015
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РУКОВОДСТВО ПО ВЕДЕНИЮ НАИБОЛЕЕ РАСПРОСТРАНЕННЫХ БОЛЕЗНЕЙ ДЕТСКОГО ВОЗРАСТА
Второе издание
Данная публикация является вторым изданием Карманного справочника... «Оказание стационарной помощи детям», первое издание которого было выпущено Всемирной организацией здравоохранения (ВОЗ) в 2005 году. В справочнике собрана информация из обновленных руководств ВОЗ по ведению распространенных заболеваний детского возраста в стационарах первого уровня в странах с низкой обеспеченностью ресурса- ми. Справочник содержит современные клинические рекомендации, основанные на фактических данных, которые могут быть использованы врачами в их повседневной работе в больницах, где есть возможность проведения элементарных лабораторных исследований и имеются в наличии недорогие лекарственные средства.
Special attention is drawn to the following sections, which are particulary relevant within the COVID-19 context:
Chapter 4: information on cough and difficulty in breathing, pneumonia and bronchiolitis;
Chapter 10: information on essential supportive care including feeding, fluid and oxygen provision;
Annex 1: information on related practical procedures.
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