A book of rehabilitation menus from 23 countries developed by World Vision staff and the communities they work in, using locally available, low-cost, nutrient-dense ingredients. Many times, you will find included in the recipes neglected underutilised indigenous foods that are contextual to the area.... The menus included in this book were successfully used in a food-based rehabilitation and behaviour change approach called, "Positive Deviance/Hearth (PDH)" programme to rehabilitate undernourished children and prevent malnutrition within the communities where they were designed.
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El quinto Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos se celebrará el 7 de junio de 2023 con la finalidad de sensibilizar sobre el tema e inspirar medidas que ayuden a prevenir, detectar y gestionar los riesgos derivados de los alimentos, contribuyendo de esta forma a la seguridad alimentaria, la... salud humana, la prosperidad económica, la producción agrícola y el acceso a los mercados, así como al turismo y al desarrollo sostenible.
Esta publicación constituye una guía para aquellas personas que deseen participar.
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Zika digital timeline: please visit the website http://who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/history/en/
No health system can claim to be free of avoidable infections. These avoidable infections, acquired through health care practices, affect patients, their families and health workers, in many different ways.
Country profile: Indonesia
WHO/UNICEF joint statement
The chain-free initiative evolved in response to an urgent need to: provide technical and financial support for hospital reform, improve domestic conditions for people with mental illness, develop community care programmes, raise mental health literacy in the community and among health workers, and ...ensure that basic rights are monitored and guaranteed
Accessed April 9,2019
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The survey aimed at evaluating the quality of selected antimalarials in six countries of sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the United Republic of Tanzania). These countries have been supported by WHO to strengthen their regulatory controls o...ver antimalarial products. The survey was organized independently of manufacturers of antimalarial medicines.
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This is a detailed manual giving a step by step approach to undertaking the pharmacovigilance of antiretrovirals. It is intended to be a source of practical advice for Pharmacovigilance Centres and health professionals involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes. A number of WHO publica...tions are available that provide a background to pharmacovigilance and, as far as possible, that material will not be repeated here. Health officials, planners, the staff of Pharmacovigilance Centres, public health teams and all health workers should become familiar with these publications, which are: • Safety of Medicines: A guide to detecting and reporting adverse drug reactions
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The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in this docume...nt aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to quality abortion care.
This guideline updates and replaces the recommendations in all previous WHO guidelines on abortion care
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The main purpose of the meeting was to review tsetse control tools, activities and their contribution to the elimination of gHAT and the monitoring thereof. Seven endemic countries provided reports on recent and ongoing vector control interventions at the national level (Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’...Ivoire, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and Uganda). Country reports focused on the in situations implementing and supporting vector control activities, the tools and the approaches in use, the coverage of the activities in space and time and their impacts on tsetse populations. Future perspectives for vector control in the respective countries were also discussed, including opportunities and challenges to sustainability.
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Results of rapid assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93% of countries worldwide while the demand for mental health is increasing, according to a new WHO survey. The survey of 130 countries provides the first global data showing the devastating... impact of COVID-19 on access to mental health services and underscores the urgent need for increased funding.
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Цель данной аналитической записки – предоставить краткое изложение информации и соображений,
касающихся принятия оптимальных мер в отношении гриппа во время па...демии COVID-19. В документе
рассматриваются первостепенные вопросы, с которыми могут столкнуться директивные органы, в том числе
вероятность одновременной циркуляции вирусов гриппа и SARS-CoV-2, дифференциальная диагностика
гриппа и COVID-19 у пациентов, а также планирование мероприятий по профилактике и борьбе с гриппом.
Кроме того, в документе содержатся ссылки на подробные технические рекомендации и другие ресурсы,
посвященные мерам, которые в одинаковой степени значимы как для борьбы с гриппом, так и COVID-19, в том
числе мониторинг ситуации, профилактика сезонного гриппа, снижение частоты случаев тяжелых осложнений
и летального исхода, охрана здоровья отдельных групп населения, а также взаимодействие и привлечение к
участию общественности. Influenza preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic
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