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Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancies: Strategic Framework 2011 – 2015
This strategic framework supports the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive. It offers guidance for preventing HIV infections and unintended pregnancies – both essential strategies for improving maternal and child health, and eliminating new pediatric HIV infections.
This framework can be used in conjunction with other related guidance that together address elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This document focuses on strengthening rights-based policies and programming within health services and the community.
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Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus
This document is an update of guidance published on 18 February 2016 to provide advice on the prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus.
The primary transmission route of Zika virus is via the Aedes mosquito. However, mounting evidence has shown that sexual transmission of Zika virus is possible and more common than previously assumed. This is of concern due to an association between Zika virus infection and adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes, including microcephaly, neurological complications and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
This document is intended to inform the general public, and to be used by health care workers and policy makers to provide guidance on appropriate sexual practices in the context of Zika virus
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SRH and HIV Linkages Compendium: Indicators & Related Assessment Tools
This Compendium is built around the different themes in the theory of change and includes a focused set of indicators and related assessment tools that have direct and indirect relevance to tracking the links between SRH and HIV programmes at national and sub-national levels.
Related assessment tools are used to capture progress where individual indicators are not available. As efforts to link these programmes continue to gain traction in countries around the world, the compendium will evolve to include additional indicators and related assessment tools that provide useful data on critical issues related to SRH and HIV linkages.
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T3: Test. Treat. Track Initiative
The WHO Global Malaria Programme’s T3: Test. Treat. Track. initiative supports malaria-endemic countries in their efforts to achieve universal coverage with diagnostic testing and antimalarial treatment, as well as in strengthening their malaria surveillance systems. The initiative seeks to focus the attention of policy-makers and donors on the importance of adopting WHO’s latest evidence-based recommendations on diagnostic testing, treatment and surveillance, and on updating existing malaria control and elimination strategies, as well as country-specific operational plans.
This resource features key policy messages from WHO’s recommendations on diagnostic testing, treatment and surveillance of every suspected malaria case, which promotes that every suspected malaria case should be tested, every confirmed case should be treated with quality-assured antimalarial medicine and the disease should be tracked through a timely and accurate surveillance system. The initiative was launched on World Malaria Day 2012 and is designed around three core WHO documents:
- Universal access to malaria diagnostic testing: an operational manual
- Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, second edition
- Disease surveillance for malaria control, and disease surveillance for malaria elimination
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WHO Guidelines on Ensuring Human Rights in the Provision of Contraceptive Information and Services: Guidance and Recommendations
These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the guidance. This guidance is complementary to existing WHO recommendations for sexual and reproductive health programmes, including guidance on family planning, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, and core competencies for primary health care.
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Youth Leadership Development Toolkit
This toolkit provides information to help urban youth workers get oriented to the topic of youth leadership development, offers examples of leading curricula, and includes forms that can be used in program evaluation. It includes links to project development tools, project implementation tools, and project evaluation tools. Each of the items in the toolkit is also available separately in the Health COMpass – see below for other items in this package.
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Zika App
This mobile phone application is available for both iPhone and Android phones. It offers general information about the virus, suspected complications, and treatment options.
The app is intended for use by the general public as well as by health care workers. For health care workers, there is technical guidance, training, WHO situation reports, and an emergency response plan. For the general public, the app offers key facts, symptoms, and the latest news.
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Zika Virus Fact Sheet
A page which describes how the virus is spread, Zika and pregnancy, signs and symptoms, treatment, when to see a health worker, and what to do to prevent mosquito bites.
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Zika Virus Facts
This page contains basic information about Zika and covers the following topics:
- Zika virus and pregnancy
- Signs of Zika virus
- Is it Zika virus, dengue, chikungunya, or malaria?
- Treatment
- Prevent mosquito bites
- Prevent mosquitos from breeding
- Communities can prevent mosquito illnesses
The information is available in:
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