Technical and operational ‘how-to’: practical considerations
Background. Children and adolescents can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after exposure to a range of traumatic events, including domestic, political or community violence, violent crime, physical and sexual abuse, hijacking, witnessing a violent crime and motor vehicle accidents. This... is particularly critical given the substantial challenge that PTSD poses to the healthy physical, cognitive and emotional development of children and adolescents.
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La prévention de la transmission des virus dans le cadre des soins de santé nécessite d’appliquer des procédures et protocoles appelés plus généralement «contrôles». Ceux-ci, par ordre d’efficacité pour la lutte contre l’infection sont les suivants: contrôles administratifs, contr...ôles de l’environnement, contrôles techniques et équipement de protection individuelle (EPI).
Ce document récapitule les recommandations pour l’équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) que les agents de santé doivent porter pour dispenser des soins aux patients infectés par un filovirus (Ebola ou Marburg). Il est accompagné de spécifications techniques décrivant les équipements et précisant les normes recommandées
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HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice no. 201
Therapy for MDR-TB is extremely long, complex and burdensome to both patients and health care systems. A single diagnosis can require two years of treatment, or longer. When treating children, there are significant additional barriers treating children with MDR-TB. There is limited data on the pharm...acokinetics of second-line TB drugs in children, and almost none are in child-friendly formulations. Nonetheless, there is continued work on second-line drugs to fight MDR-TB. The Sentinel Project has created a complex set of dosing recommendations for administering second-line drugs to children
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First report of a demonstration project
Patient information on depression. English version. Also available in: Arabic, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Spanish. For other versions go to: http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/psychische-erkrankungen/depression
NSP Review
Engaging with South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB Edition 7 July – August 2013
A publication of the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27
GeneXpert: An imperfect rollout
TB in South African prisons: Where to now?
Decentralising DR-TB care: How far alon...g are we?
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