PQDx 0027-012-00 WHO
PQDx Public Report
May/2017, version 4.0
Cervical cancer, along with maternal deaths, has been identified as a national priority in
South Africa as well as other Sub-Saharan African countries. Cervical cancer is the
second most common cancer among women in South Africa, after breast cancer. Due
to limited access to prevention, early dia...gnosis and treatment, cervical cancer is often
fatal.
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Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115
The training focuses on building the capacity of health care workers at the primary and secondary level to address and manage TB in children.
This Indicator-Based Pharmacovigilance Assessment Tool (IPAT) was developed as a comprehensive performance metric for pharmacovigilance and medicine safety systems.
(Published with Decision No. 3003/QðBYT dated 19/8/2009 of the Minister of Health)
The guidelines acknowledge that overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and high inmate turn over contribute to the spread of infectious diseases within correctional facilities. The document states that voluntary HIV counselling and testing must be offered to all inmates when they enter facilities, duri...ng their incarceration at an inmate’s request and upon their release. All inmates must be screened for TB symptoms upon entry to facilities and at least bi-annually thereafter as well as upon release. Universal screening for anal, oral and genital STIs must be done at entry and upon self-presentation
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Cards for Facilitators (including birth preparedness, complication readiness and recognition of danger signs) are also available
Revised National TB Control Programme. Annual Status Report