Accessed on 03.03.2020
The country recognizes the importance of family planning as they focus on achieving a demographic dividend. In order to improve the service delivery and supply chain, Senegal is strengthening its data management and reporting. Domestic resource mobilization for family plannin...g remains a key challenges for Senegal.
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Bishkek 2015
Accessed: 26.09.2019
The risk of communicable diseases remains a humanitarian concern with major health risks including cholera, acute watery diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, malaria and other vector borne diseases and conditions such as severe acute malnutrition.
Access to the affected districts is still conditioned due t...o the destruction of roads, the telecommunications network and the interruption of electricity.
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In 2007, WHO warned that infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging at a rate that has not been seen before. The potential for infectious diseases to spread rapidly results in high morbidity and mortality, causing a potential global public health treat of major concern.
Several factors are ...contributing to the (re)emergence of infectious diseases such as population growth, living in close contact with animals, frequent travelling, poverty, destructive ecological changes due to economic development and land use and climate change result in global warming.
Especially Africa is at a threat for (re)emerging infectious diseases due to the huge population growth (expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050) with rapid urbanisation. Additionally, people across and beyond the continent are excessively mobile which is combined with a weak health system. Moreover, the risk of (re)emerging infectious disease is further heightened by three newly adopted continental initiatives: African Continental Free Trade Area, Free Movement of Persons and African Passport and Single African Air Transport Market.
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Findings from field research in Malawi and current literature.
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April/2016, version 3.0
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February/2016, version 2.0
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April/2016, version 2.0
This article was published on March 4, 2016, at NEJM.org.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1602412
Please download from the website: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602412