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Migration and health: key issues

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2016) C_WHO

The most frequent health problems of newly arrived refugees and migrants include accidental injuries, hypothermia, burns, gastrointestinal illnesses, cardiovascular events, pregnancy- and delivery-related complications, diabetes and hypertension. Female refugees and migrants frequently face specific... more

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Handbook on TB laboratory diagnostic methods in the European Union

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016) C1

The aim of this handbook is to provide network members and other laboratories involved in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, with an agreed list of key diagnostic methods and their protocols in various areas of TB diagnosis, ranging from microbiological diagnosis of active TB to the diagnosis of latent ... more

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Consolidated guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection
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World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

2nd edition. These guidelines provide guidance on the diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection and the care of people living with HIV. They are structured along the continuum of HIV testing, prevention,... more

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Interregional workshop for tuberculosis control and care among refugees and migrant populations

World Health Organization Europe (2016) C_WHO

10–11 May 2016, Catania, Italy

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Punto de corte óptimo para insulina plasmática en la población adulta del municipio San Cristóbal del estado Táchira, Venezuela

Zulianlly Rojas, Saylee Ochoa, Román Millán, et al. Diabetes Internacional (2016) C1

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HIV, Hepatitis C, TB, Harm Reduction, and Persons Deprived of Liberty: What Standards Does International Human Rights Law Establish?

G. Sander, R. Lines Health and Human Rights Journal (2016) C2

Health and Human Rights Journal December 2016 / Volume 18 / Number 2 / Papers, 171-182

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Overview of harm reduction in prisons in seven European countries

G. Sander, A. Scandurra, A. Kamenska, et al. (2016) CC

Harm Reduction Journal (2016) 13:28 DOI 10.1186/s12954-016-0118-x

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Disability Data Collection in Community-based Rehabilitation

Sunil Deepak, Franesca Ortali, Geraldine Mason Halls, Tulgamaa Damdinsuren, Enhbuyant Lhagvajav, Steven Msowoya, Malek Qutteina, Jayanth Kumar Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development Journal (DCIDJ) (2016) CC

Today there are Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) programmes in a large number of countries. In many countries, the CBR approach is a part of the national rehabilitation services. However, there is a lack of reliable data about persons with disabilities who benefit from CBR and the kind of benefi... more

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening the Monitoring of HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction (Ireland)

C. MacNamara, L. Varley, P. M. McNamara Irish Penal Refurm Trust (2016) C2

Mapping Report - Ireland.

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Surveillance von Tuberkulose/HIV – ein Beispiel guter Praxis aus Botswana

Robert Koch Institut (2016) C1

Epidemiologisches Bulletin ; 12. Dezember 2016 / Nr. 49 aktuelle daten und informationen zu infektionskrankheiten und public health

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Guide to community engagement in WASH
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Niederberger, E.; S. Ferron and M. O'Reilly Oxfam (2016) C1

A practioner's guide, based on lessons from Ebola. This guide is a compilation of best practices and key lessons learned through Oxfam’s experience of community engagement during the 2014–15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It aims to inform public health practitioners and programme ... more

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WHO Prequalification of In Vitro Diagnostics Programme - Public Report (Product: MP Diagnostics HIV Blot 2.2, Number: PQDx 0198-071-00)

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

PQDx 0198-071-00 WHO PQDx PR April/2016, version 2.0

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In all our Diversity 2015 Highlights

J. Bushee; R. Gustav; J.Hows; et al. GNP+ (Global Network of people living with HIV) (2016) C2

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The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Policy update.

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The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Policy Guidance.

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Guidelines for the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2016) C1

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are public health measures that aim to prevent and/or control SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the community. As long as there is no effective and safe vaccine to protect those at risk of severe COVID-19, NPI are the most effective public health interventions against... more

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Tuberculosis and HIV coinfection in Europe: looking at one reality from two angles

M. J. van der Werfa; C. Ködmön; P. Zucs Wolters Kluwer Health; PMC (2016) C2

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Global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights

UN Human Rights Council (2016) CC

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)

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A preventable crisis - El Niño and La Niña events need earlier responses and a renewed focus on prevention

Oxfam (2016) C2

The devastating impacts of the 2015–16 El Niño will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Niña event may further hit communities that are already deeply vulnerable. To end this cycle of failure, there is an urgen... more

Consolidated guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection recommended

Guide to community engagement in WASH recommended

Consolidated guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection
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Guide to community engagement in WASH
recommended