A summary of the national drug situation
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted. How we live and interact with each other, how we work and communicate, how we move around and travel. Every aspect of our lives has been affected.
This report aims to estimate the economic cost of providing regular access to healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation, compared with the cost of providing treatment in emergency cases only. Two specific medical conditions – hypertension and prenatal care – were selected as examples, an...d their associated costs were calculated using an economic model. This model was then applied to three EU Member States: Germany, Greece and Sweden. The testing suggests that providing access to regular preventive healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation
would be cost-saving for governments.
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Locate, test, treat and retain (L2TR) Ghana campaign. 90-90-90 ending the AIDS epedemic by 2030
Orientations provisoires, 28 janvier 2021
Dans cette version mise à jour des orientations sur la sécurité biologique en laboratoire en rapport avec le SARS-CoV-2, le virus responsable de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), les points suivants ont été ajoutés : aspects de... sécurité biologique relatifs à la réalisation des tests diagnostiques rapides antigéniques, manipulation des nouveaux variants du SARS-CoV-2 au laboratoire, mise à jour de la décontamination des tests avant leur élimination, équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) pour le prélèvement d’échantillons et, même s’ils ne concernent pas directement la sécurité biologique, dangers chimiques et leur élimination en toute sécurité.
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treat TB
Description of Research Outputs, 2009 - 2014
MEDBOX Issue Brief no. 6
This issue brief gives you an overview of the most important documents on humanitarian aid and the WASH sector in MEDBOX
Mood disorders
Chapter E.1
2015 edition
This guide provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to organize, implement, and monitor community-based care for DR TB. It is equally useful for program planning or supervision. The target audience for this guide is TB Program Managers, governments, policy makers, nongovernmental organizatio...ns (NGOs), donors and TB advocates.
This guide does not replace other guidelines and documents that contain important medical information, such as Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (WHO, 2008 and 2011 updates), and Management of MDR-TB: A Field Guide (WHO, 2009).
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Substance use disorders
Chapter G.3
Many of the countries that faced cholera outbreaks in 2022 were badly affected by extreme weather events.
As the climate emergency worsens, human displacement will intensify, along with droughts and flooding – all
conditions that give rise to cholera outbreaks. Unless we invest in systems that b...uild preparedness and
resilience among at-risk populations, the cholera burden will continue to rise
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Volume 20, September
Global smart update
The Transatlantic Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR) fosters cooperation between the European Union (EU) andthe United States (US) on the issue of antimicrobial resistance. The first TATFAR recommendation refers to appropriate use of antimicrobials in human medicine through hospital Ant...imicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs) and, specifically, to the development of common structure and process indicators of ASP. These indicators should allow characterization of programs and comparisons among healthcare systems in EU and US.
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Evidence-based resources for all students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals - Clinical Pocket Reference