Reading Material for ASHA no.8
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The Kenya Strategic AIDS Framework IV prioritises key populations for interventions
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The Big Idea of the Week delves deeper into a specific COVID-related topic. Each week, Big Idea tackles a specific area of COVID-19 and provides important information, guidelines, and messages for the public.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Information on Chikungunya Fever
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Orientations pour faire face à une infodémie mondiale et favoriser la demande de vaccination
Décembre 2020
La désinformation menace le succès des programmes de vaccination dans le monde entier. Ce guide vise à aider les organisations à faire face à l'infodémie mondiale par l'élaboration ...de plans d'action nationaux stratégiques et bien coordonnés pour contrer rapidement la désinformation sur les vaccins et créer une demande de vaccination qui soit fondée sur l'écoute sociale.
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                                                                2023 was another year of significant progress in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. In countries where the Global 
Fund invests, there has been a full recovery from the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results we have achieved in the last year build on our extraord...inary track record of progress. Over the last two decades, our partnership has cut the combined death rate from AIDS, TB and malaria by 61%. As of the end of 2023, the Global Fund partnership has saved 65 million lives.
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                                                                Contact tracing is a key element of WHO’s recommended approach to control the spread of COVID-19 by breaking the chains of human-to-human transmission.
This document provides guidance to health authorities at all levels to improve the success rate of contact tracing by informing efforts with RCCE... principles, evidence and activities, and provides ready-to-use tools for professionals involved in contact-tracing efforts to inform their practices with RCCE principles and likewise improve their success rate.
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                                                                Available in English, French and Arabic
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Saúde Soc. São Paulo, v.30, n.1, e200450, 2021
Desde  março  de  2020,  quando  a  Organização  Mundial  de  Saúde  declarou  que  o  mundo  vivia  uma  pandemia  de  covid-19,  acompanhamos  um  quadro  sanitário  sem  precedentes  nos  últimos  100  anos.  As  medidas  atuais  contra  a  ...doença  têm  como  objetivo  o  controle  da  transmissão  e  envolvem  ações  individuais  e  coletivas  de  higiene  e distanciamento físico, enquanto a busca por uma vacina se apresenta como a esperança para vencer a pandemia. Considerando o contexto social de clamor por uma nova vacina, este ensaio crítico discute o paradoxo  e  as  contradições  da  relação  indivíduo-sociedade no contexto da covid-19 à luz da hesitação vacinal  como  fenômeno  histórico  e  socialmente  situado.  Este  ensaio  aponta  que  as  tomadas  de  decisão sobre (não) vacinar ou sobre (não) seguir as medidas  preventivas  e  de  controle  da  propagação  da  covid-19  são  conformadas  por  pertencimentos  sociais  e  atravessadas  por  desigualdades  que  tendem  a  se  exacerbar.  A  infodemia  que  cerca  a  covid-19 e a hesitação vacinal refletem a tensão entre  o  risco  cientificamente  validado  e  o  risco  percebido subjetivamente, também influenciada pela crise de confiança na ciência. Percepções de risco  e  adesão  a  medidas  de  saúde  extrapolam  aspectos subjetivos e racionais e espelham valores e  crenças  conformados  pelas  dimensões  política,  econômica e sociocultural.
Also available in Englisch http://www.scielo.br/j/sausoc/a/rQFs3PMLgZprt3hkJMyS8mN/?format=pdf&lang=en
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                                                                Policy Note #2: Myanmar Health Systems in Transition Policy Notes Series
Myanmar is a country in which people’s access to health services is determined more by where they live than their need for care – a situation that is fundamentally inequitable. The challenge is to reduce levels of ineq...uity between different groups in the population and different geographical areas, and most particularly to ensure that health services reach poor and disadvantaged groups, including minorities and those living in conflict-affected areas.
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                                                                Universal health coverage (UHC) has a central place in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, as 
it is a major target (3.8) under SDG 3 (Ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages). The World Health 
Organization defines Universal Health Coverage (UHC) ...as a means through which all people and communities can use the 
promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, 
while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship. UHC brings hope of better 
health and protection for the world’s poorest.
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                                                                Centre Africain de contrôle et de prévention des maladies (CDC Afrique) protocole par la surveillance renforcée du syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (SRAS) et du syndrome grippal pour COVID-19 en Afrique 
Mars 2020
Le nombre d’États membres de l’Union signalant des cas de COVID-19 est ...en augmentation et il est probable que la transmission communautaire en Afrique se produira. L’OMS a récemment modifié la définition de cas suspect de COVID-19 pour inclure des infections respiratoires aiguës sévères et conseille de tester tous les cas de syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (SRAS).1 Cependant, de nombreux États membres n’ont pas encore commencé à mettre en œuvre ces changements, ils concentrent toujours leurs efforts
de surveillance sur les personnes ayant des antécédents de voyage vers une zone de transmission locale de COVID-19. Cela signifie que les patients présentant des symptômes similaires, mais sans aucun contact apparent, peuvent ne pas être enquêtés.
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                                                                Le succès de la mise en œuvre du PNAPF 2017-2020 dépendra de l’engagement de chaque entité à tous les niveaux à travers des arrangements institutionnels clairs. Il s’agit d’un document dynamique qui requerra une forte coordination des différentes parties prenantes multisectorielles. La ...mise en œuvre sera conduite par le Ministère de la Santé à travers la Direction de la Santé de la Famille (DSF). Les autres secteurs tels que les ministères connexes contribueront à favoriser l’environnement juridique et politique de la PF pour garantir l’accès de tous, notamment des jeunes aux services de PF. Les organisations de la société civile (OSC) et les PTF apporteront leur contribution à la mise en œuvre du plan, au renforcement des 
capacités des acteurs en PF, au plaidoyer et à la mobilisation des ressources pour la pérennité du programme.
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