Situation Update: Since 24 February over 100 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), including 15 000 children,have registered in Kyiv. Reconstruction efforts continue on 11 residential buildings that suffered the greatest destruction. Specialists are repairing damaged transportation infrastructure....
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A GUIDE FOR HEALTH WORKERS AND AUTHORITIES IN NIGERIA
Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia about National Policy and Strategy for Crisis Response, Management and Other Health Problems in Indonesia
Welcome! This tool provides you as a first responder with action guides and instructions for use in a radiological emergency.
Also available in Russian: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/EPR-FirstRespondersPDA-2009/html/default.htm
No publication year indicated.
Accessed 15th of October 2015
The purpose of this training is to prepare clinicians in first receiver settings to: (1) Identify factors impacting immediate medical response to mass casualties following major types of radiological incidents, and (2) Demonstrate appropriate patient assessment, triage, treatment and disposition dec...ision-making required during a radiological mass casualty incident.
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Mettre fin au choléra- Feuille de route mondiale pour 2030 rend opérationnelle la nouvelle stratégie mondiale de lutte contre le choléra au niveau des pays et fournit une voie concrète vers un monde où le choléra ne représente plus une menace pour la santé publique. En mettant en œuvre la ...stratégie d’ici à 2030, les partenaires du Groupe spécial mondial de lutte contre le choléra (GTFCC) aideront les pays à réduire de 90 % les décès dus au choléra. Avec l’engagement des pays touchés par le choléra, des partenaires techniques et des donateurs, pas moins de 20 pays pourraient éliminer la transmission de la maladie d’ici 2030.
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A new FMP was opened in Lutaya (Yei County), bringing the total number of EVD-related FMPs within South Sudan to 14. Six additional FMPs are operated in cooperation with DTM Uganda on the Ugandan side of the border due to access issues on the South Sudanese side.
A field mission was carried ou...t in Yambio County to scope potential new FMP locations, provide the enumerators in Gangura with refresher training and improve arrangements for data upload.
Installation of incinerators and waste pits for medical waste management is ongoing at Morobo and Panyume Primary Health Care Centres (PHCC).
Two new POE screening sites established in Lasu and Birigo were officially opened and have started screening activities on the reporting period, making the total active IOM-supported PoE screening sites at 13
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Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers
A Training Course for Vasectomy Providers and Assitants 2nd Edition
The Ministry of Health is working with WHO, Gavi, MSF, UNICEF and other partners to ring vaccinate high-risk populations in Ebola-affected health zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As vaccine supplies arrive in Geneva ahead of deployment to Kinshasa, WHO’s Dr Peter Salama explains what... ring vaccination means.
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The Mexico Declaration for Circulatory Health brings together global health
organizations committed to improving circulatory health and reducing deaths and disability from heart disease and stroke around the world. These diseases presently represent the biggest health burden world-wide, accounting ...for over 17 million deaths every year. We are united around existing global strategies and targets to reduce the burden of heart disease and stroke. We are committed to achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) “25 by 25” non-communicable disease (NCD) targets, and the United Nations’ NCDrelated Sustainable Development Goals, based on known, effective and affordable
interventions for secondary prevention, primary prevention and primordial prevention in populations. As heart disease and stroke make up half of all NCD deaths, our efforts, working together as the international cardiovascular community, are central to achieving these global goals.
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