A formulary of dermatological preparations and background information on therapeutic choices, production and dispensing. 2nd edition
Rev Esp Sanid Penit 2012; 14: 11-16 11
PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org
May 2013 | Volume 8 | Issue 5 | e63476
The Lay Counselor Cadre in Botswana
Training for Health Care Providers
Facilitators’ Manual
This guide supports the low-dose, high-frequency practice of scenerios needed to maintain competency in prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage. The document is learner centered and is directly linked to service delivery standards. It is part of the Helping Mothers Survive Bleeding After ...Birth training package.
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Research Article
BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12:262; doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-262
The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2013, 7, (Suppl 1: M6) 54-59
First report of a demonstration project
Lancet 2013; 381: 1405–16
Series: Childhood Pneumonia and Diarrhoea no.1
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra...structure. Under these circumstances, providing food, water and shelter and limiting communicable disease outbreaks become primary concerns. Where effective and safe vaccines are available to mitigate the risk of disease outbreaks, their potential deployment is a key consideration in meeting emergency health needs. Ethical considerations are crucial when deciding on vaccine deployment. Allocation of vaccines in short supply, target groups, delivery strategies, surveillance and research during acute humanitarian emergencies all involve ethical considerations that often arise from the tension between individual and common good. The authors lay out the ethical issues that policy-makers need to bear in mind when considering the deployment of mass vaccination during humanitarian emergencies, including beneficence (duty of care and the rule of rescue), non-maleficence, autonomy and consent, and distributive and procedural justice
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Revided Version
September 2013