Fact Book on WHO Level I and Level II monitoring indicators - To monitor the progress of efforts to improve the global medicines situation, WHO has developed a system of indicators that measure important aspects of a country’s pharmaceutical situation. Level 1 indicators measure the existence and ...performance of key national pharmaceutical structures and processes. Level II indicators measure key outcomes of these structures and processes in the areas of access, product quality and rational use. These indicators can be used to assess progress over time; to compare situations between countries; and to reassess and prioritize efforts based on the results.
This Fact Book gives the results of the assessment of Level I indicators conducted in 2003 and of Level II indicator surveys conducted between 2002 and 2004
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Journal des anthropologues Association française des anthropologues
122-123 | 2010
Si le malaise ressenti lorsque l’on se trouve en présence du handicap constitue un invariant culturel (Stiker, 2005), chaque culture lui confère néanmoins une signification particulière (Murphy, 1990). Quelle...s sont alors les spécificités des situations de handicap au Burkina Faso ? Les idées reçues sur le continent africain sont nombreuses (Courade, 2006) : concernant le traitement des personnes handicapées, les représentations oscillent selon Poizat (2007) entre « afro-optimisme » et « afro-pessimisme » ; si la solidarité communautaire est parfois considérée comme garantissant leur non-singularisation (Guilmain-Gauthier & Jacquemin, 1994), les croyances traditionnelles relatives au « monde invisible » sont souvent invoquées comme déterminant à l’inverse leur maltraitance et leur exclusion (Devlieger, 1994).
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Practical considerations
It provides more detailed and practical guidance for continuing services for each life stage across the life-course continuum. As such, both documents should be read and used together. The countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific regions would like to adapt the guidance... within the national and sub-national continuity plans, based on the local situation of COVID-19 transmission, containment response and health system capacity.
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Malawi’s first National Community Health Strategy (NCHS, 2017-2022) defines a new community health system in which community health cadres, both formal and non-formal, deliver services of the Essential Health Package, with a focus on child and maternal health. It envisages an integrated approach t...o service delivery and is embedded in Malawi’s Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSPII).
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DHS Working Papers No. 114
TEP UP Technical Working Paper
From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working
“The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than
it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV
every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that
TB d...oesn’t have to be a death sentence for people living with HIV, but we need
more action. By joining forces, the HIV and TB community can finally give this
deadly issue the attention it deserves.”
– Mike Podmore, Director STOPAIDS
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External quality assessment (EQA) is an important component of quality systems for blood transfusion services. Establishing external quality assessment programmes for screening of donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections (TTI): implementation guide aims to support WHO member States in ...establishing and operating EQA programmes for screening donated blood for TTI. The guides has been designed for use by national health authorities and EQA organizing institutions in the development of EQA programme. It will also give participating laboratories an insight into the organization of EQA programmes for TTI screening and an understanding of the benefits of participation.
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Esta guía rápida sobre la adaptación de los programas de resistencia a los antimicrobianos (TAP, por su sigla en inglés) se ha elaborado para ayudar los países a iniciar y ejecutar proyectos para enfrentar la propagación de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos en sus territorios. La resistenci...a a los antimicrobianos es un problema complejo, con muchos factores que afectan su aparición y propagación, por lo que resulta difícil abordarlo. La guía rápida del proceso de TAP está diseñada para ayudar a los grupos de trabajo de TAP a nivel nacional a aplicar un enfoque de estudio del comportamiento para formular intervenciones apropiadas y factibles a fin de comenzar a combatir la resistencia a los antimicrobianos en sus contextos. La guía proporciona un panorama general de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos y el proceso de TAP, y conduce a los usuarios a lo largo de cinco etapas para evaluar la factibilidad, adquirir una comprensión referencial de los problemas, priorizar los temas que han de tratarse, formular estrategias y ejecutar y evaluar las intervenciones. La guía viene acompañada del Conjunto de Herramientas de TAP. Ejercicios, herramientas y plantillas para facilitar su plan de intervenciones a medida contra la resistencia a los antimicrobianos, que contiene ejercicios y recursos para facilitar cada etapa de formulación del proyecto.
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Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels