The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (DCHA/OFDA) requested Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2) assistance to review Community-Based Management of ...Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in four West African countries—Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger—to help identify DCHA/OFDA 2010 and 2011 program priorities, including where DCHA/OFDA investment should be directed to support CMAM. The goal was to review CMAM program implementation and its integration into national health systems to provide DCHA/OFDA a status report for each country; draw lessons learned; and make recommendations on challenges, promising practices, gaps, and priority areas for DCHA/OFDA support during 2010 and 2011. The review was intended for DCHA/OFDA program planning purposes and also potentially as an advocacy tool to guide other donors in planning CMAM support in the region. After all four countries have been reviewed, FANTA-2 will develop a synthesis report. The current document presents a summary report on CMAM in Burkina Faso only.
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SARS-CoV-2 infections among children and adolescents cause less severe illness and fewer deaths compared to adults. While a less severe course of infection is a positive outcome, there are concerns that mild symptoms may have led to less testing, resulting in fewer identified cases of COVID-19 in ch...ildren. If children with mild or no symptoms transmit the disease, they may act as drivers of transmission within their communities. Understanding symptoms, infectivity and patterns of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children and adolescents is essential for developing, adapting and improving control measures for COVID-19 across all ages. This is a summary of the current knowledge around SARS-CoV-2 infection acquisition and transmission and COVID-19 disease symptoms in children and adolescents. It aims to inform decisions, based on local contexts, on how to best keep schools, kindergarten and day-care facilities open and what advice to apply to intergenerational mixing.
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Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) with its manifestations of coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure (HF), atrial fibrillation (AF), and stroke, as well as aortic and peripheral artery diseases. In addition, diabetes is a major risk factor f...or developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), which in itself is associated with developing CVD. The combination of diabetes with these cardio-renal comorbidities enhances the risk not only for cardiovascular (CV) events but also for CV and all-cause mortality. The current European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes are designed to guide prevention and management of the manifestations of CVD in patients with diabetes based on data published until end of January 2023. Over the last decade, the results of various large cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTs) in patients with diabetes at high CV risk with novel glucose- lowering agents, such as sodium–glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists (RAs), but also novel non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs), such as finerenone have substantially expanded available therapeutic op-
tions, leading to numerous evidence-based recommendations for the management of this patient population.
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This Quick Reference Handbook of Selected Congenital Anomalies and Infections is a companion tool to Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers, and is intended for use by front-line health care professionals who are diagnosing and collecting data on congenital defects and infection...s. When used in conjunction with the manual, the tools in this handbook will help the reader to: identify an initial list of congenital anomalies to consider for monitoring;describe the tools needed to define and code identified cases; define specific congenital anomalies under surveillance.
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Tercera versión, 1 de febrero del 2022. Estas orientaciones tienen por objetivo contribuir a que los sistemas de salud prioricen los medicamentos esenciales que deben estar disponibles y ser asequibles para manejar los pacientes en las unidades de cuidado intensivos durante las emergencias de salud.... Esta actualización incluye una sección sobre el tratamiento de pacientes graves o críticos, así como nuevos datos sobre la evidencia y la firmeza de las recomendaciones incluidas en versiones anteriores.
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In the event of an accident or medical emergency, First Aid saves lives. Keeping the patient alive and safe until the arrival of expert professional help is a vital part of the chain of care which leads to recovery. The principle of First Aid must be simple skills, clearly taught and capable of bein...g performed in a stressful situation by those with no medical training. This manual is intended to offer a basic level of First Aid for members of the general public.
The contents of this manual are offered as a first edition of European First Aid Guidelines for general use. As such they are compatible with current practise, with other specialist guidelines (for example regarding the management of burns) and with the evidence base where one exists. These guidelines will be updated on a regular basis by the JOIN Clinical Working Group.
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Healthy people, healthy animals and a healthy environment worldwide with the One Health approach.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically demonstrated just how close the link is between humans, animals, and the environment, and has highlighted and aggravated existing challenges. The destruction of na...tural habitats and displacement of species, trade in wild animals, resource-intensive lifestyles and conditions, non-sustainable food systems and, in particular, industrial agriculture and intensive livestock farming are the causes of the emergence of zoonoses as well as numerous other communicable and non-communicable, chronic diseases.
The One Health approach focuses precisely on such interaction between humans, animals, and the environment.
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La 3ieme édition du nouveau mini-manuel.
Au cours des mois à venir COVID Reference publiera des mises à jour régulières.
Orientação provisória 17 de março de 2020
Esta orientação rápida destina-se a profissionais de saúde pública e de prevenção e controle de infecção (PCI), gestores e profissionais de saúde, ao abordar questões relacionadas ao atendimento domiciliar de pacientes com suspeita de infecç...ão pelo nCoV que apresentem sintomas leves e o tratamento de contatos assintomáticos.
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Document d’information scientifique
24 avril 2020
Le développement d’une immunité face à un agent pathogène à la suite d’une infection naturelle comporte plusieurs étapes et prend généralement une à deux semaines. Une infection virale entraîne immédiatement une réponse immunit...aire innée, non spécifique, au cours de laquelle les macrophages, les neutrophiles et les cellules dendritiques ralentissent la progression du virus et peuvent même éviter l’apparition de symptômes. Cette réponse non spécifique est suivie d’une réponse adaptative, au cours de laquelle l’organisme produit des anticorps qui se lient spécifiquement au virus. Ces anticorps sont des protéines appelées immunoglobulines. L’organisme produit également des lymphocytes T qui reconnaissent et éliminent les cellules infectées par le virus. Cette réponse adaptative permet parfois d’éliminer le virus de l’organisme et, si elle est suffisamment forte, d’éviter l’aggravation de la maladie ou la réinfection par le même virus. Ce processus est souvent mesuré par la présence d’anticorps dans le sang.
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Relever le Taux de Prévalence Contraceptive (TPC) au Sénégal à 45% et réduire les Besoins Non satisfaits (BNS) à 10% selon une approche inclusive, holistique au sein d’une instance de coordination multisectorielle fonctionnelle chargée des questions de dividende d...mographique et incluant la participation de tous sans laisser personne en rade notamment les adolescents/jeunes, les femmes non mariées incluant les jeunes femmes seront pris en compte mais dans le respect des normes sociales; avec la contribution dans les financements de l’Etat notamment par un accroissement de l’ allocation budgétaire pour l’achat des produits contraceptifs portée à 500 millions de francs d’ici à 2020, mais aussi du secteur privé, des partenaires techniques et financiers et tout cela dans le respect des principes de bonne gouvernance en associant les organisations de la société civile, les religieux, les collectivités locales, les parlementaires, les médias et en améliorant les cadres réglementaires et légaux , principalement la signature du décret d’application de la loi SR et la révision de certains textes facilitant l’ accès universel à la planification familiale dans le pays.
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Le Burkina Faso fait partie des pays d’Afrique de l’ouest où les indicateurs de santé publique restent des bas et où l’espérance de vie à la naissance s’établit à 53 ans. Ces indicateurs sont variables en fonction des régions et des catégories socioprofessi...onnelles.
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At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The world faces considerable challenges in terms of eye care, including inequalities in the coverage and qua...lity of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services; a shortage of trained eye care service providers; and poor integration of eye care services into health systems, among others. The World report on vision aims to address these challenges and galvanize action.
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La Commission européenne contre le racisme et l'intolérance (ECRI) a été créée par le Conseil de l'Europe. C'est un organisme indépendant qui veille au respect des droits de l'homme dans la lutte contre le racisme, la discrimination (fondée sur la "race", l'origine ethnique ou nationale, la ...couleur, la nationalité, la religion, la langue, l'orientation sexuelle et l'identité de genre), la xénophobie, l'antisémitisme et l'intolérance. Les membres de la Commission sont indépendants et impartiaux. Ils sont nommés sur la base de leur autorité morale et de leur expertise reconnue en matière de racisme, de xénophobie, d'antisémitisme et d'intolérance. Dans le cadre de son mandat statutaire, l'ECRI produit des rapports nationaux pour chaque pays qui analysent la situation en matière de racisme et d'intolérance dans chaque Etat membre du Conseil de l'Europe et font des propositions pour résoudre les problèmes identifiés.
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Emerging evidence and experience to inform risk management in a warming world
The Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators is a standard set of core indicators prioritized by the global community to provide concise information on the health situation and trends, including responses at national and global levels.
This second (2018) edition builds on the previous ...work of the inter-agency working group that was commissioned by global health leaders to reduce reporting burden. The 2018 list of indicators contains modifications and additions to indicators and metadata elements to reflect the recommended health and health-related indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals, including universal health coverage.
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The global emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is posing a threat to human health. Putting resources into the containment of AMR – including surveillance – is one of the highest-yield investments a country can make to mitigate its impact. In 2015, WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Re...sistance Surveillance System (GLASS), the first global collaborative effort to foster AMR surveillance in bacteria causing acute infections. As of December 2018, 71 countries are enrolled in GLASS. The aim of this report is to document participation efforts and outcomes across these countries, and highlight differences and constraints identified to date. This report follows on from the first GLASS Report – Early implementation 2016-17, published in January 2018, and drawing on data from GLASS first data call in 2017.
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Rapport de Suivi de la Déclaration de Politique du Bénin
À l’instar des autres pays de la sous-région, le Bénin est un pays à épidémie mixte. Depuis 2006, la prévalence du VIH s’est stabilisée à 1,2% dans la population générale. Malgré cette tendance à la stabilisation, il exi...ste des poches de concentration de fortes prévalences au sein de certaines populations clés plus exposées aux risques d’infection, notamment les professionnelles de sexe (PS), les détenus, les HSH et les CDI.
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Curricular Modules for Lecturers and Teachers.
The 2nd edition of the Global Public Health Curriculum has been published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, end of 2016 as a special volume . The curriculum targets the postgraduate education and training of public health professi...onals including their continued professional development (CPD). However, specific competences for the curricular modules remained to be identified in a more systematic approach
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The Sphere standards in national humanitarian response discussion paper sets out to understand and describe opportunities for adapting international humanitarian standards to a regional, national or local level in preparing for, or responding to a disaster. The paper, which includes case studies and... recommendations for humanitarian professionals, is available in English, French and Spanish
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