Global AIDS Update 2018
Closing Gaps
Breaking Barriers
Righting injustices
Chaque année, 2,6 millions de bébés meurent avant l’âge d’un mois. Un million d’entre eux rendent leur dernier souffle le jour même de leur naissance. Pourtant, des millions de jeunes vies pourraient être épargnées chaque année si les mères et les bébés avaient accès à des soins ...de santé abordables et de qualité, à une nutrition correcte et à de l’eau potable. Ce rapport appelle à une coopération solide entre les gouvernements, les entreprises, les prestataires de soins de santé, les communautés et les familles pour donner à chaque enfant une chance de vivre et travailler collectivement pour atteindre une couverture sanitaire universelle et un monde dans lequel aucun nouveau-né ne meurt d’une cause évitable.
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Globally, in low-income countries, the average newborn mortality rate is 27 deaths per 1,000 births, the report says. In high-income countries, that rate is 3 deaths per 1,000. Newborns from the riskiest places to give birth are up to 50 times more likely to die than those from the safest places.
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The report also notes that 8 of the 10 most dangerous places to be born are in sub-Saharan Africa, where pregnant women are much less likely to receive assistance during delivery due to poverty, conflict and weak institutions. If every country brought its newborn mortality rate down to the high-income average by 2030, 16 million lives could be saved.
More than 80 per cent of newborn deaths are due to prematurity, complications during birth or infections such as pneumonia and sepsis, the report says. These deaths can be prevented with access to well-trained midwives, along with proven solutions like clean water, disinfectants, breastfeeding within the first hour, skin-to-skin contact and good nutrition.
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Transforming Health Systems: Achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2022. The development of the Kenya Health Sector Strategic Plan 2018–2023 is guided by the Constitution of 2010, the Kenya Vision 2030 and the Kenya Health Policy 2014–2030.
Meeting Report
Bangkok, Thailand 8-11 August 2016
The report reflects on the trends, achievements and challenges in global health over the past decade during which Dr Margaret Chan has been Director-General of WHO. It discusses the role of WHO in dealing with such issues as the rise of noncommunicable diseases, leaps in life expectancy, and emergin...g threats like climate change and antimicrobial resistance.
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A guide to increasing coverage and equity in all communities in the African Region
Expanded Programs on Immunization (EPI) is responsible for vaccines and vaccination to control, eliminate and eradicate vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Having strong immunization systems to deliver vaccines ...to those who need them most will play a significant role in achieving the health, equity and economic objectives of several global development goals.
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Guide pour augmenter la couverture et l'équité dans toutes les communautés de la Région africaine (2017)
Les programmes élargis de vaccination (PEV) sont responsables des vaccins et luttent contre les maladies évitables par la vaccination, dans le but de les éliminer, voire les éradique...r. La présence de systèmes de vaccination solides, aptes à apporter des vaccins à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin, jouera un rôle important dans la réalisation des objectifs de santé et d'équité aussi bien que des objectifs économiques de plusieurs buts de développement mondial. Ces buts comprennent les objectifs de développement durable (ODD) à l'horizon 2030, la Décennie de la vaccination (2011-2020), le programme pour réaliser la couverture universelle d'ici à 2030, le Plan d'action mondial pour les vaccins (2011-2020), les Stratégies et pratiques mondiales de vaccination systématique et le Plan stratégique régional pour la vaccination 2014-2020.
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The primary objective of the 2015-16 MDHS project is to provide up-to-date estimates of basic demographic and health indicators. Specifically, the MDHS collected information on fertility levels, marriage, fertility preferences, awareness and use of family planning methods, breastfeeding practices, n...utrition, maternal and child health and mortality, awareness and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other health-related issues such as smoking and knowledge of tuberculosis. As the 2015-16 MDHS is the first DHS survey in the country, trend analysis is not carried out in this report.
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The National pharmaceutical policy aligns itself to the Government vision for development of the health sector, as defined in Vision 2020, the Millennium Development Goals and the Economic Development for Poverty Reduction Strategy and the National Health Policy. The pharmacy policy addresses, among... other challenges, the establishment of functional National Medicines Regulatory Authority that will implement all the regulatory functions, lack of local manufacturing facilities, lack of pricing policy of health commodities and technologies in private sector. This policy is based on the following key priorities: the Quality assurance, accessibility and the rational use of medicines, other health commodities and technologies.
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