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Rev Panam Salud Publica 43, 2019 | www.paho.org/journal | https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2019.31
Recommendations, resources and references
A publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
Updated 20 Nov. 2020
Countries can use this checklist of hospital governance, structures, plans and protocols to rapidly determine the current capacities of hospitals to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify gaps and major areas that require investment and action for the development of h...ospital readiness improvement plans. The tool can be used periodically to monitor hospital emergency operational readiness capacity development
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This statement aims to provide guidance and recommendation to African Union Member States in responding to the following questions:
What should countries do when announcing identification of a herbal remedy or medicine?
What are the implications for the rest of the continent?
Этот документ был подготовлен в рамках инициативы Международного партнерства по правам
человека (IPHR) и его партнеров из Центральной Азии по мониторингу и докумен...ированию степени
влияния действий правительства в ответ на пандемию COVID-19 в этом регионе. Основное внимание
в этой инициативе уделяется защите основных свобод, таких как свобода выражения мнений, свобода
объединения и свобода собраний; прав на свободу, безопасность и доступ к правосудию; а также прав
уязвимых групп. (the impact of COVID-19 on human rights in kazakhstan )
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In recent decades, India has witnessed a rapidly exploding epidemic of diabetes.
Indeed, India today has the second largest number of people with diabetes in the
world. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that there are 72.9 million people with diabetes in India in 2017, which is... projected to rise to 134.3 million by the year 2045. The prevalence of diabetes in urban India, especially in large metropolitan cities has increased from 2% in the 1970s to over 20% at present and the rural areas are also fast catching up.
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Guidance for health care workers.
Both the REGN-EB3 and mAb114 are recommended for use in EVD. The two drugs should not be given together. The choice of which monoclonal antibody to use depends on availability, including emerging information about effectiveness.
Временные рекомендации
17 января 2020 г.
Цель настоящего документа – предоставить временные рекомендации лабораториям и субъектам, занятым в работах по лаборатор...ному тестированию пациентов в случаях, соответствующих определению подозрительных на пневмонию, ассоциированную с новым коронавирусом, выявленным в Ухане, Китай (см. Surveillance case definitions for human infection with novel coronavirus, Interim guidance (Эпиднадзор за случаями инфекции человека, вызванной новым коронавирусом, временные рекомендации (на английском языке)).
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Progress towards targets of the Global action plan on dementia
The overall goal of the programme, to reduce the malaria morbidity and mortality by 75% (using 2012 as baseline) by the year 2020, continued to be pursued in 2014. The following areas were identified as some of the priorities for the year: Malaria Case Management under which we have Malaria in Pregn...ancy (MIP), Home Based Care and Diagnostics.
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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders globally. The WHO epilepsy technical brief aims to strengthen action for epilepsy and complements the Intersectoral global action plan on epilepsy and other neurological disorders 2022–2031.
The technical bri...ef presents the key information on epilepsy and recommends actions to policy makers and other stakeholders. Using the concept of levers for change introduced by the Operational Framework for Primary Health Care, it identifies actions on the policy and operational levels that stakeholders should take to strengthen services for people with epilepsy using a person-centered approach based on human rights and universal health coverage.
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