Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Plan in West Africa July to December 2014. Annex 1
The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 2164 (2014), by which the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and requested me to report to it every three months on the implementation of the re...solution and the progress on the implementation of the Mission’s mandate. The present report covers the period from 17 December 2014 to 19 March 2015.
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Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a critical strategy to care for preterm and low birth weight infants in resource-limited settings. Despite evidence of its effectiveness and low cost, coverage has remained low, largely due to sociocultural barriers. We aimed to better understand social norms and commun...ity perceptions of preterm infants and KMC (facility-initiated and community-continued) in Malawi, a country with a high preterm birth rate, to inform a pilot social and behavior change program.
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CBM’s approach is based on the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and on CBM’s responsibility to promote accessibility and the principles of universal design in all spheres of its work, including CBM’s digital content and communications. With this... toolkit, we want to provide a guide and practice resource to people working with and for CBM so that together we produce accessible digital content and communications, and place accessibility at the centre of our Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) procurement processes. The toolkit contains a selection of tools for producing accessible content in electronic documents, videos, figures and tools to ensure web accessibility. It also provides tools and information for accessible ICT procurement including tips and resources on how to communicate CBM’s accessibility requirements for products and services being purchased; and how to evaluate what providers promise and deliver.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health
Eine kinderrechtliche Analyse basierend auf einer Befragung der 16 Bundesländer
Achieving Quality Health Care in Bangladesh:
2014 Bangladesh Health Facility Survey (BHFS)
Le Plan d’action pour l’élimination du paludisme 2021-2025 a été élaboré en consultation avec les pays et les partenaires régionaux comme cadre de référence pour orienter les efforts nationaux et les contributions des donateurs et partenaires dans le but d’éliminer la maladie dans la ...Région des Amériques. Le plan souscrit aux objectifs et aux piliers de la Stratégie technique mondiale de lutte contre le paludisme 2016-2030 adoptée par l’OMS, et présente également des éléments clés pour relever les défis spécifiques à la Région.
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Implementation reference guide. This Malaria Surveillance Assessment Toolkit implementation reference guide is a comprehensive reference document, as well as a step by-step guide. It aligns and adapts available tools into a single set of standardized tools, which can be used to conduct malaria surve...illance assessments across all transmission settings. Use of these standardized tools allows comparison of results between countries and within the same country over time, enabling countries to track their progress towards surveillance system strengthening.
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El Plan de acción regional sobre inmunización para las Américas (RIAP) constituye un paso fundamental para consolidar los avances alcanzados y proporciona una visión clara para enfrentar los desafíos actuales y futuros, con el objetivo de alcanzar las metas establecidas para el año 2030. Este ...plan es esencial para fortalecer los sistemas de salud, mejorar el acceso a la vacunación y optimizar la coordinación entre las partes interesadas, de manera de asegurar que todos los sectores de la población tengan la oportunidad de beneficiarse de programas de inmunización resilientes, eficaces y equitativos a lo largo del curso de vida. Diseñado en el marco de la política sobre Revitalizar la inmunización como un bien de salud pública para la salud universal y en consonancia con la Agenda de Inmunización 2030, en este plan se integran las prioridades definidas por los países y territorios, con indicadores que abordan seis líneas de acción: gobernanza, seguimiento, integración, comunicación, recursos humanos y toma de decisiones basada en la evidencia. Este enfoque integral e inclusivo reafirma el compromiso con el logro de la cobertura universal de salud y de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. De cara al futuro, es esencial mantener un compromiso sólido a todos los niveles y adaptar las estrategias a los cambios que enfrentan los países y territorios, a fin de avanzar de manera eficaz en los esfuerzos de inmunización mediante mejores prácticas y enfoques innovadores. Se invita a todas las partes interesadas a unirse a este esfuerzo colectivo para garantizar la inmunización como un bien público y proteger a la población contra las enfermedades prevenibles por vacunación.
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This guide aims to provide an overview of successful practice from the field for the disaster risk reduction/management practitioner interested in EWS. It presents guiding principles that will build a strong foundation for the design or strengthening of EWS at any level. It is not an operational, bu...t a strategic, guide that insists on asking the right questions and exploring all perspectives prior even to deciding whether or not early warning is the appropriate tool for a given context.
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The Japan Committee for UNICEF (JCU) has for years endeavored to disseminate important information about children in developing countries and UNICEF’s various assistance programmes there, as well as to fundraise to support those programmes. Unprecedented damage caused by the East Japan Earthquake,... however, forced us to ask ourselves what we could do to help, and we wasted no time in contacting UNICEF Headquarters in New York.
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