Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels
Int J Vaccines Vaccin 2016, 2(1): 00018, January 29, 2016
Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Hacia respuestas al VIH y a la tuberculosis que transformen las relaciones de género
On the road to ending TB
Highlights from the 30 highest TB burden countries
Towards ending tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Vers des ripostes au VIH et à la tuberculose opérant des transformations dans le domaine du genre
NHSP 2017- 2022 (Final draft)
Today there are Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) programmes in a large number of countries. In many countries, the CBR approach is a part of the national rehabilitation services. However, there is a lack of reliable data about persons with disabilities who benefit from CBR and the kind of benefi...ts they receive. This article reviews the disability data collection systems and presents some case studies to understand the influence of operational factors on data collection in the CBR programmes. The review shows that most CBR programmes use a variable number of broad functional categories to collect information about persons with disabilities, combined occasionally with more specific diagnostic categories. This categorisation is influenced by local contexts and operational factors, including the limitations of human and material resources available for its implementation, making it difficult to have comparable CBR data. Therefore, any strategies to strengthen the data collection in CBR programmes must take these operational factors into account.
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There is an urgent need for safer, simpler, more efficacious and accessible treatment regimens for all forms of TB. The development of Target Product Profiles for TB treatment regimens (referred to as Target Regimen Profiles or TRPs) seeks to guide the drug development process towards important regi...men characteristics corresponding to the needs of end-users.
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