Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers: Part A
PLoS ONE 9(1): e87262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087262
Euro Surveillance 2014;19(47):pii=20970, p.31-37
The context of the Ebola epidemic presented extreme challenges for Oxfam, as it did for many organisations. At the onset of the epidemic, there was a general lack of understanding of the disease and how to respond to it effectively and safely. A pervasive and persistent climate of fear, coupled with... changing predictions about the likely evolution of the epidemic, influenced analysis and response at all levels. There was strong pressure to treat the epidemic as a medical emergency requiring a medical response – organised through topdown processes – rather than standard humanitarian coordination
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Around the world, approximately 1 in 45 children are on the move – nearly 50 million boys and girls that have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced within their own countries.1 Climate-related events
and their impacts are already contributing significantly to these staggering numbers...,with 14.7 million people facing new internal displacement as a result of weather-related disasters in 2015 alone. The annual average
since 2008 is higher still, at 21.5 million, equivalent to almost 2,500 people being displaced every single day.2
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CBM and the Global Campaign for Education 2014
Principles and Target Product Criteria. Roadmap January 12, 2015
An Independent Report
of the West Africa Commission on Drugs