UNHCR and its partners implement interventions focusing on adolescent girls and boys, including:
▪ Formation and capacity building of adolescent girls and boys’ clubs as peer groups for awareness raising, and SGBV prevention and response mechanisms.
▪ Community based protection activ...ities and training on child protection
▪ Provision of secondary education for secondary school-aged youth and recruitment of female teachers to encourage adolescent girls to continue education
▪ Introduction of community sharing/ parenting sessions and increasing the number of women support networks
▪ Establishing girls’ friendly spaces, which includes information sharing and psycho-social support
▪ Awareness raising campaigns with all members of the community, including community leaders
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Research Article
PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002625 July 31, 2018 / 1-19
PLoS ONE 9(1): e87262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087262
The following protocol has been designed to investigate the First Few X cases (FFX) and their close contacts. It is envisioned that the FFX 2019-nCoV investigation will be conducted across several countries or sites with geographical and demographical diversity. Using a standardized protocol such a...s the protocol provided here, epidemiological exposure data and biological samples can be systematically collected and shared rapidly in a format that can be easily aggregated, tabulated and analyzed across many different settings globally for timely estimates of 2019-nCoV infection severity and transmissibility, as well as to inform public health responses and policy decisions. This is particularly important in the context of a novel respiratory pathogen, such as 2019-nCoV
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BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12:352/1471-2334/12/352
Standard Operating Procedures | RBC/IHDPC/EID Division | 9/30/2011
Trials (2017) 18:152, DOI 10.1186/s13063-017-1881-z
PLOS ONE 10(12): e0144040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144040
As our world changes, so too does the burden of disease. Globalisation, evolving trade and consumption patterns, and increased access to life-saving medical care are just some of the factors that have transformed the global health landscape.
В июне 2016 г. в решении EB139(1) Исполнительный комитет обратился к Генеральному директору с просьбой разработать при всестороннем участии государств-членов и в сотруд...ничестве с другими соответствующими заинтересованными сторонами проект Глобального плана действий сектора общественного здравоохранения по реагированию на деменцию с четкими целями и задачами и представить его на рассмотрение Семидесятой сессии Всемирной ассамблеи здравоохранения через Исполнительный комитет на его Сто сороковой сессии. В Приложении к настоящему докладу содержится проект плана действий, который охватывает период 2017-2025 годов.
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The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 7(3):289-292
At its 48th session of Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), the Committee noted the importance of water quality and safety in food production and processing. CCFH requested the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide guidan...ce for those scenarios where the use of “clean water” (i.e. water that does not compromise the safety of the food in the context of its use) was indicated in Codex texts and on
where it is appropriate to use “clean water”. In particular, guidance was sought for the use of irrigation water and “clean” seawater and on the safe reuse of processing water.
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