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HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice
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Guidance for health workers
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If you notice changes in the person’s mood, behaviour, energy levels, habits or
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However, you should not attempt to diagnose the person with depression, as only a
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In these guidelines we use the term gambling problems to refer to
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which leads to adverse consequences for the person, others, or for
the community. This could include someone whose gambling is having
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he Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) would like to thank the group that developed these guidelines for the tremendous work, quick response, and commitment they demonstrated in this process. We would like to especially recognize the following doctors: Roberto Chuit, Jaime Altcheh, Alejandro Luq...
Leishmaniasis is a climate-sensitive disease. Changes in
temperature, rainfall, and humidity can have strong impacts on
the sandfly vector, altering their distribution and influencing their
survival and population sizes. Increased temperatures shorten
vector development time, reduce Leishmania p...
This technical report presents the epidemiology of human and animal leishmaniases in the EU and its neighbouring countries and concludes that the disease remains widespread and underreported in many countries of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East and that there is a need to improv...
