India AIDS Response Report 2014
The RTA covered UNICEF’s response to COVID-19 from March 2020 – when WHO declared the disease a pandemic – until January 2021. Further, the RTA applied a broad and cross-cutting lens to all 21 UNICEF county offices across the region, focusing on six case study countries: Kenya, Madagascar, Nam...ibia, Somalia, South Africa and Uganda.
In addition to a Regional Analysis Report, the RTA produced six deep-dive reports with findings and lessons specific to the six case study countries mentioned above – all of which can be accessed through the drop-down listing on this page.
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Malaria Journal (2021) 20:190
Esta guía operativa se basa en las mejores prácticas y ejemplos ilustrativos de ciudades y pueblos donde la Agencia de Refugiados de la ONU (ACNUR) trabaja actualmente con refugiados en zonas urbanas. El papel del ACNUR en el ámbito de la salud pública es más complejo y menos definido en contex...tos estatales, privados y organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) locales e internacionales. El objetivo del ACNUR en las zonas urbanas es que los refugiados accedan a servicios de salud de calidad a un nivel similar al de los nacionales. El papel principal el ACNUR en las zonas urbanas es promover y facilitar que los servicios de salud de calidad estén disponibles para los refugiados y que puedan acceder a ellos.
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Depression Research and Treatment
Volume 2012, Article ID 962860, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/962860
Venturini et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14(Suppl 1):S5 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/S1/S5
2014/HS S1 | pages 35 à 38
ISSN 0995-3914
PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104.
The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o...f Alberta in Edmonton published their findings on Sep 26 in PLOS One.
To spark focus group discussions, the researchers used an 18-item questionnaire based on similar ones used during West Africa's outbreak in Guinea, where community resistance and episodes of violence also complicated the outbreak response.
Participants were a convenience sample of 670 adults from the region who were recruited by medical students at Catholic University of Graben. Those surveyed included clinicians, community members, and displaced persons.
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Anxiety disorders
Chapter F.2
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) collected evidence through field missions and from other sources reporting on the situation in March, May and October 2022.
In parallel, it launched a large-scale online survey of those fleeing Ukraine. This aimed to gather personal experiences... of their journey to, arrival in and settling in the EU. The survey covered displaced people, including many children, in the 10 EU Member States hosting large numbers of people registered for temporary protection.
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PLoS One. 2012; 7(4): e29656.
Published online 2012 Apr 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029656
PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0133869 July 28, 2015, p.1-16
Johnson CC et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, 20:21594 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/21594 | https://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.20.1.21594
PLoS ONE 9(1): e87262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087262
As a high-burden neglected tropical disease, soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections remain a major problem in the world, especially among children under five years of age. Since young children are at high risk of being infected, STH infection can have a long-term negative impact on their life, i...ncluding impaired growth and development. Stunting, a form of malnutrition in young children, has been long assumed as one of the risk factors in acquiring the STH infections. However, the studies on STH infection in children under five with stunting have been lacking, resulting in poor identification of the risk. Accordingly, we collected and reviewed existing related research articles to provide an overview of STH infection in a susceptible population of stunted children under five years of age in terms of prevalence and risk factors. There were 17 studies included in this review related to infection with Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm, and Strongyloides stercoralis from various countries. The prevalence of STH infection in stunted children ranged from 12.5% to 56.5%. Increased inflammatory markers and intestinal microbiota dysbiosis might have increased the intensity of STH infection in stunted children that caused impairment in the immune system. While the age from 2 to 5 years along with poor hygiene and sanitation has shown to be the most common risk factors of STH infections in stunted children; currently there are no studies that show direct results of stunting as a risk factor for STH infection. While stunting itself may affect the pathogenesis of STH infection, further research on stunting as a risk factor for STH infection is encouraged.
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