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Asean Parlimentarians for Human Rights

APHR APHR (2019) CC

ICJ genocide hearing on Myanmar: step towards justice for the Rohingya JAKARTA, 10 December 2019 - Parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia today welcomed the first hearing in the case against Myanmar at the UN’s highest court as an initial step towards justice and possible recognition of the... more

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Multiregional Workshop on developing policies, guidelines and SOPs for effective vaccine management

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2025) C_WHO

The effective vaccine management (EVM) workshop, jointly organized by WHO and UNICEF, was attended by participants from 13 countries, who reviewed the various EVM benchmarks, identified the gaps in policies, guidelines, SOPs and job aids, and developed respective country action plans to fill these g... more

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Asian Schistosomiasis: Current Status and Prospects for Control Leading to Elimination

Gordon, C.; Kurscheid, J.; Williams, G. et al. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute MDPI (2019) CC

Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2019, 4, 40; Schistosomiasis is an infectious disease caused by helminth parasites of the genus Schistosoma. Worldwide, an estimated 250 million people are infected with these parasites with the majority of cases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Within Asia, three species of ... more

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Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

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Lost in Transitions: current Issues faced by Adolescents living with HIV in Asia Pacific

UNICEF, UNESCO, Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIVAIDS (APN PLUS) (2013)

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Nepal: Influenza virus infections in humans (August 2017)

WHO South East Asia Regional Office (2017) C_WHO

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IOM Myanmar COVID-19 Response Situation Report 11, 6 August 2020

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C1

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Relevance of CBR and Inclusive Development in Post 2015 Agenda

Thomas, M. and Ninomiya, A. CBR Asia-Pacific Network (2015) C1

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Agenda item 6: CRP1: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS- Resource Mobilization Strategy (2022-2026)

UNAIDS (2022) CC

UNAIDS leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. It unites the efforts of 11 UN Cosponsor organizations- UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP,UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank- and a Secretari... more

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Bangladesh, Myanmar/Burma - Diphtheria Outbreak - DG ECHO Daily Map | 31/01/2018

European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (2018)

SITUATION OVERVIEW as of 30 Jan. - 688 000 refugees into Bangladesh (of which 585 000 in Kutupalong and Bulukhali camps) - over 5000 clinically suspected Diphtheria cases and 37 deaths (reported in refugee camps)

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Young people and the law in Asia and the Pacific: a review of laws and policies affecting young people's access to sexual and reproductive health and HIV services

UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Education; UNFPA; UNAIDS; UNDP; Youth Lead (2013) C2

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Malaria Control in Cambodia: Community Mobilization for Malaria Prevention,Diagnosis and Treatment

University Research Co., LLC United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2011) CC

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Lesson learned: Getting PrEP to MSM in Asia

Preparing Asia; apcom.org (2019) C2

Midnight, Executive Director midnightp@apcom.org Accessed: 27.08.2019

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Antimicrobial resistance policy review and development framework

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2018) C2

A regional guide for governments in Asia and the Pacific to review, update and develop policies to address antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use in animal production

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Malaria Epidemiology And Control In Refugee Camps And Complex Emergencies

M.Rowland; F. Nosten Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology (2001) C1

Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, Vol. 95 (2001) pp.741-754

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Clinician mental health, nursing shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic: Crises within crises

Turale S., Nantsupawat A. (2021) CC

Around the world, nurses are working under enormous pressure providing care to sick and dying patients during the pandemic. Many are faced with increased stress, and other negative effects on their mental health. They are also faced with the possibility of infection and death from COVID-19. Before t... more

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Countries and territories with current or previous Zika virus transmission (June 2019)

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

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Report on the PCB Bureau on UNAIDS' funding situation based on the recommendations of the informal multistakeholder task team

UNAIDS (2022) CC

Report on the PCB Bureau on UNAIDS' funding situation based on the recommendations of the informal multistakeholder task team

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WHO Prequalification of In Vitro Diagnostics - Public Report (Product: OraQuick HIV 1/2 Rapid Antibody Test, WHO reference number: PQDx 0159-055-00)

World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO

PQDx 0159-055-00 WHO PQ Public Report February/2017, version 5.0

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International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma

Chung, K. F.; Wenzel, S. E.; Brozek, J. L.; et al. (2022) CC2

The European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) Task Force on severe asthma includes an updated definition of severe asthma, a discussion of severe asthma phenotypes in relation to genetics, natural history, pathobiology and physiology, as well as sections on evaluation and tr... more