On the 9 February 2021, Africa CDC convened a special session of the Africa Task Force for COVID-19 to review existing data and evidence and recommend
Mars 2020. Recommendations selon les differentes phases
This guidance provides considerations and a series of options that can be used to inform country strategies in managing any shortages of personal protective equipment.Re-use and reprocessing of single-use PPE must be a last resort temporary measure to be adopted until stocks are replenished. The WH...O and other agencies are currently conducting research about this and further guidance will likely become available soon.
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Chapitre 50. Le texte traite du paludisme grave, une forme sévère du paludisme principalement causée par Plasmodium falciparum. Il explique les circonstances dans lesquelles le diagnostic doit être évoqué, notamment en cas de fièvre au retour d'une zone tropicale. Le document décrit les exam...ens nécessaires, les signes cliniques et biologiques de gravité, et insiste sur l’urgence du traitement. Le traitement de référence est l’artésunate par voie intraveineuse, suivi d’une thérapie orale. Le texte aborde aussi les complications possibles, les critères d’hospitalisation et l’importance d’une prise en charge rapide et adaptée dans un service spécialisé.
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ECDC Technical Report
In line with ECDC’s recommendations provided in the ’Risk Assessment of HTLV-1/2 transmission by tissue/cell transplantation’ dated 14 March 2012, this Directive replaces the term ‘incidence’ with ‘prevalence’ in the description of endemic areas of HTLV-1/2 i...nfection. According to the new requirements ‘HTLV-1 antibody testing must be performed for donors living in, or originating from high-prevalence areas or with sexual partners originating from those areas or where the donor’s parents originate from those areas’ and this applies to both donors of non-reproductive tissues and cells and reproductive cells.
ECDC contracted experts from the Institut Pasteur in Paris to systematically review the published evidence on the distribution of HTLV-1 infection prevalence throughout the world and to identify high-prevalence countries and areas.
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On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) declared the multi-country mpox outbreak a public health emergency of continental security, with strong recommendations to improve surveillance and vaccine deployment in all AU Member States. On 14 August 2024, the WHO Director-G...eneral declared mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
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Première Conférence ministérielle mondiale de l’OMS
Mettre fin à la tuberculose à l’ère du développement durable : une réponse multisectorielle
Moscou, Fédération de Russie, 16-17 novembre 2017
Rapport de plaidoyer Mars 2011
303100 03/2011 E 1,000
Un rapport de plaidoyer de la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
publié en partenariat avec l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation (GAVI)
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,... to prevent their unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion or intentional release.
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