Climate-related disasters, heatwaves, climate-sensitive diseases, and severe droughts and floods are taking lives and harming health, livelihoods, and ecosystems across the countries of the Caribbean, as in other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world. In recognition of the high vuln...erability of those countries, the World Health Organization launched in 2017 the Special Initiative on Climate Change and Health in Small Island Developing States, aiming to increase the resilience of these countries and territories to climate variability and climate change
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ثیوبری هی 19 ّبی يفًَی ًهیز وٍَیذ تَاًٌذ هختل وٌٌذُ هحیف ّبیی ثبضٌذ وِ وَدوبى در آًْب رضذ هی وٌٌذ. اختلال ّبیی وِ در ایي ضزایف در خبًَادُ، رٍاثف دٍستبًِ، فًبلیت ّبی رٍ...سهزُ ٍ در سكحی ٍسیى تز در اجتوبو ایجبد هی هی، ضَد تَاًذ پیبهذّبی هٌفی ثز ثْشیستی، رضذ، تَسًِ ٍ حوبیت اس وَدوبى اًجبم هی 19 داضتِ ثبضذ. يلاٍُ ثز آى الذاهبتی وِ ثِ هٌهَر پیطگیزی ٍ وٌتزل ضیَو ٍیزٍس وٍَیذ ضَد ًیش هی تَاًذ هخبقزاتی را در سهیٌِ حوبیت اس وَدوبى ثِ ّوزاُ داضتِ ثبضذ .ثِ يٌَاى ًوًَِ لزًكیٌِ خبًگی، لزًكیٌِ هجتٌی ثز هزاوش یب ًَاحی یب ایشٍلِ ضذى در یه هحیف هحذٍد اس جولِ هَاردی ّستٌذ وِ هی ذ تبحیزات هٌفی ثز وَدوبى ٍ خبًَادُ ٌ تَاً 2 ّبیطبى ثگذارد. ّذف اس هختػزی وِ در اداهِ هی آیذ پطتیجبًی اس وسبًی است وِ در سهیٌِ حوبیت اس وَدوبى فًبلیت هی وٌٌذ تب ثتَاًٌذ پبسخگَیی ثْتزی ًسجت ثِ هخبقزات حوبیت اس وَدوبى در سهبى ّوِ گیزی ٍیزٍس وزًٍب داضتِ ثبضٌذ. در ثخص اٍل ثِ خكزات ثبلمَُ ی حوبیت اس وَدوبى در دٍرُ ّوِ گیزی ٍیزٍس پزداختِ ضذُ ٍ در ثخص دٍم ثزًبهِ19وٍَیذ حوبیت اس ٍ )2019 ّبی پیطٌْبدی ثز اسبس حذالل استبًذاردّبی حوبیت اس وَدوبى در الذاهبت ثطزدٍستبًِ(
وَدوبى در سهبى ضیَو ثیوبری ّبی يفًَی آهذُ است.
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Accessed on 31.03.2020
This Guidance Note aims to provide humanitarian child protection practitioners, particularly child protection advisors and program managers, with guidance on how to engage in responses to infectious disease outbreaks to ensure children’s protection needs are taken into ac...count in preparedness for, and during responses to, the outbreaks. The Guidance Note draws upon lessons learned during infectious disease outbreaks globally in a variety of contexts.
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Deployment of Residents in Various Facilities Designated for Screening and Management of Patients with COVID-19 and the non covid area of the hospital (in this SOP, the term “resident” includes DNB and CPS students)
The purpose of these guidelines is to give practical advice to doctors so that all services and models of care used by doctors and health workers are encouraged to consider the use of telemedicine as a part of normal practice. These guidelines will assist the medical practitioner in pursuing a sound... course of action to provide effective and safe medical care founded on current information, available resources, and patient needs to ensure patient and provider safety.
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Guidance issued as of 25 March 2020
This guidance is intended for use by health authorities to guide the actions taken by health-care providers for refugees and migrants in relation to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This document is intended to address the needs and rights of refugees a...nd migrants living in all types of setting.
General recommendations made by WHO in the COVID-19 response (link here) are the superseding guidelines. Unfounded measures regarding testing, health screening and quarantine should not be imposed on refugees and migrants.
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Collection of Tools, Techniques, Resources and Stragtegies for Journalists covering the Coronavirus Outbreak. Includes Tools for Fact-Checking, misinformation and hoaxes.
While much progress has been achieved over the past year, the Region of the Americas has stubbornly remained the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. PAHO is launching its 2021 COVID-19 Response Strategy and Donor Appeal to continue supporting Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories i...n their fight against COVID-19. This document outlines PAHO’s regional strategy for the year 2021 to sustain and scale-up the response to COVID‑19 pandemic in the Americas, suppress the community transmission of the virus and mitigate the longer-term health impact of the pandemic.
US$ 239 million is needed to support critical response efforts in the Americas between 1 January and 31 December 2021
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The proposed roadmap includes components and recommended actions to eliminate these neglected infectious diseases from the Americas.
For the first time WHO and UNICEF bring together the data on sanitation coverage and investment, and how it impacts health, economies, and the environment. Citing evidence on what works from successful countries and global guidelines, WHO and UNICEF call for strong government leadership and investme...nt in resilient sanitation services. The report charts an ambitious way forward following the SDG6 global acceleration framework themes of governance, financing, capacity development, data and information, and innovation to achieve universal access to safe sanitation.
Read the full publication report here: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240014473.
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This paper provides case studies of several food product improvement policies from across the WHO European Region. The aim is to share country experience, assess the various merits of the different approaches, discuss lessons learned, and provide guidance for best practice that may be more widely ap...plicable across the European Region.
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A workshop of “first mover” countries to exchange experience and identify wider policy implications for the WHO European Region
The World Health Organization (WHO) European Region continues to be severely affected by diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), obesity and, in some countries, ...micronutrient deficiencies.
In order to drive further progress on improving dietary intake and food product improvement, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Public Health England and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) co-convened a workshop of “first mover” countries in March 2019.
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28 Dec 2020. The main objective of these guidelines is to provide tools for staff working in the field of immunization to support effective communication between health personnel and the general population, with the aim of strengthening, maintaining or recovering trust in vaccines and the immunizati...on programs in the Region of the Americas.
Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
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Getting story ideas right -- Getting your sources right -- Getting your facts right -- Getting your report right -- Getting images and videos verified accurately -- Getting maps right -- Getting your language right
Accessed on 10.03.2021
This law guidebook is a simplified summary of Kenyan disability policy, so that those who have disabilities or are associated with them can be aware of their rights. This guidebook is meant to be an introduction and a simple guide to Kenyan laws that concern people with disa...bilities. It must be noted that this guidebook is not comprehensive. If the reader wants to know more about a specific law, she or she should look it up. All of the laws and policies have been cited so the reader can find them in the respective legal documents.
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Illustrated by A. Scheffler and contribution by G. Medley