UNICEF reports that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is experiencing its most severe cholera outbreak in six years, with over 31,000 suspected or confirmed cases and 230 deaths in the first seven months of 2023. The North Kivu province is particularly affected, recording more than 21,400 c...ases, including over 8,000 children under five—a sixfold increase compared to all of 2022. The surge is attributed to escalating conflict and displacement in eastern DRC, leading to overcrowded camps with inadequate water and sanitation facilities, creating conditions conducive to cholera transmission. UNICEF emphasizes the urgent need for improved access to clean water, sanitation, and healthcare to prevent further spread of the disease.
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Technical information note. Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured, affordable anti-TB
drugs and diagnostics to the world
Policy Guidelines for Health Facilities
Journal of Computational Biophysics and ChemistryVol. 22, No. 01, pp. 31-41 (2023)
Conducting simulations and drills is the most effective way to evaluate and test disaster preparedness plans; these exercises are used widely by organizations and institutions working in development and in disaster response. Drills and simulations are also excellent tools for training, and for asses...sing decision making processes, teamwork, and coordination.
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Training for staff working at DR-TB management centres.
Training modules
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before they depart for the field. Below are videos used to ac...company the training sessions, helping to demonstrate infection control measures.
All videos are without sound to avoid language barriers. All videos are intended to be viewed in training sessions with an experienced Médecins Sans Frontières trainer
A free registration at vimeo is requested
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La Confédération internationale des sages-femmes exhorte les gouvernements du monde
entier à reconnaître que des soins accessibles et efficaces prodigués par des sagesfemmes constituent un droit fondamental de la personne pour toutes les femmes, les bébés et les sages-femmes et à soutenir c...e principe. Les questions qui concernent les femmes comme l’égalité des genres et l’accès à l’éducation touchent également les sages-femmes, une profession à forte dominante féminine. La charte des droits fondamentaux des femmes et des sages-femmes aborde les droits fondamentaux de la personne des femmes et des sages-femmes qui ont été systématiquement bafoués et constitue un cadre supplémentaire pour approcher les gouvernements afin de leur demander d’améliorer les services de pratique de sage-femme et de maternité.
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Q2: What interventions are safe and effective for drug withdrawal (cannabis, amphetamines, cocaine, benzodiazepines, and inhalants)?
a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
The Lancet Published:November 01, 2018DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30337-7
Nearly 260 000 people died in parts of Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012, including
133 000 children under five during the famine and food crisis in Somalia making it the worst famine in history.
A study commissioned and funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio...n’s food security and nutrition analysis unit for Somalia stated that the famine early warning systems clearly identified the risk of famine in South Central Somalia in 2010–2011 but timely action to prevent the onset of famine was not taken. The result was large scale
mortality, morbidity and population displacement.
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