On the road to ending TB
Highlights from the 30 highest TB burden countries
Systematic Review Summary 4
Issues in Educational Research, 26(1), 2016
WHO QualityRights is an initiative which aims to improve the quality of care in mental health and related services and to promote the human rights of people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities, throughout the world.
A practical guide to meaningfully engage adolescents in the AIDS response
UNAIDS 2016 reference
Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Overview
Rev Panam Salud Publica 40(6), 2016
Antimicrobial resistance has become a serious public health threat for effective treatment of an ever increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. When infections can no longer be treated by first-line antibiotics, other antibiotics must be used, which are both mo...re expensive and more toxic. Treatment and hospitalization is prolonged, and patients undergoing operations and other medical procedures are more vulnerable to infections. All this imposes a huge burden on health care systems and on the economy of countries. This is a major challenge to the health system in Mauritius which provides health care free of user cost to the whole population.
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The report provides the much-needed evidence to design interventions for children in Kenya and as such we urge partners to use this report as a document for planning for children.