Global AIDS Update 2016 - UNAIDS - High Risk of HIV/AIDS for Adolescent Girls & Young Women
Извор: WUNRN – 27.07.2017
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-21/women-and-girls-are-new-frontier-fight-against-hiv
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene: WASH - SDG Goal But Practical Challenges - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 24.07.2017
Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene: 2017 Update & SDG Baselines
Direct Link to Full 114-Page 2017 UNICEF & WHO Report
This report presents the first ever estimates of the population using ‘safely managed’ drinking water and sanitation services – meaning drinking water free from contamination that is available at home when needed, and toilets whereby excreta are treated and disposed of safely. It also documents progress towards ending open defecation and achieving universal access to basic services. The report identifies a number of critical data gaps that will need to be addressed in order to enable systematic monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets and to realize the commitment to ‘leave no one behind’.
Illegal Adoptions - Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution & Child Pornography
Извор: WUNRN – 22.07.2017
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale & Sexual Exploitation of Children – Website
Access to Full 24-Page SR Report
Refugee Well-Being & Adjustment Index Measurement Tool - Indicator of Impacts of Humanitarian Services
Извор: WUNRN – 21.07.2017
The Well-Being & Adjustment Index is a free and easy-to-use tool for practitioners working with refugee populations. The tool measures the collective impact of services for refugee families and tracks household progress toward self-reliance.
Direct Link to Full 9-Page Index Tool
Eliminate hepatitis
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 27.07.2018
27 July 2017 – New WHO data shows that countries are stepping up to respond to hepatitis. The data from 28 countries, or roughly 70% of the global hepatitis burden, reveal that almost all have hepatitis elimination committees and more than half have dedicated funding for hepatitis responses. On World Hepatitis Day, WHO is calling on countries to continue to eliminate hepatitis through increased health services.
World Hepatitis Day: Making hepatitis elimination a reality
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 27.07.2017
The world is poised to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. This will mean achieving a 90% reduction in new infections and a 65% reduction in deaths in the period leading up to 2030.
More than 400 people die from causes related to viral hepatitis every day in the WHO European Region, and the numbers are rising. It is estimated that more than 15 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus and another 14 million people with hepatitis C virus. Approximately two thirds of chronic hepatitis infections in the Region occur in eastern Europe and central Asia.
UN health agency urges early action to stave off threat of HIV drug resistance
Извор: Организација на Обединетите нации - 21.07.2017
Adolescents in Chiang-Mai, Thailand, learning about HIV/AIDS. Photo: UNICEF/Thailand/2015/HIV
21 July 2017 – The United Nations health agency has warned that the spread of an HIV strain resistant to some of the most widely used medicines could undermine global progress in treating and preventing HIV infection if early and effective action is not taken.
“Antimicrobial drug resistance is a growing challenge to global health and sustainable development,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), in a news release.
European Union presidency discussions consider policy options for alcohol labelling
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 21.07.2017
European Alcohol Policy Alliance
One of the priorities of the 2017 Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union is the reduction of alcohol-related harm in Europe. In particular, Estonia will address cross-border alcohol policy issues, including advertising and labelling of alcoholic beverages.
In advance of the informal meeting of ministries of health in Tallinn on 21 July 2017, WHO/Europe prepared a report on the topic as a discussion document. It presents an overview of the evidence and the policy options available for placing warning and product labels on alcoholic beverage containers.
Discovering who misses out on health: The example of Indonesia
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 21.07.2017
21 July 2017 – While many countries have improved the overall health of their populations, national averages don’t tell the whole story: groups of people can miss out on health services for a variety of reasons. WHO has developed a set of resources to monitor health inequalities – one of which, the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), was recently tested in Indonesia, allowing the country to analyse and interpret inequalities in health.
AIDS-related deaths decline: 19.5 million people on life-saving treatment – UN report
Извор: Организација на Обединетите нации - 20.07.2017
On World AIDS Day, people in Nigeria took a walk in the Asokoro neighbourhood of Abuja to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in the general public (file). Photo: UNAIDS
20 July 2017 – The scales have tipped for the first time in the fight against AIDS as more than half of all people living with the HIV virus now have access to treatment, while AIDS-related deaths have nearly halved since 2005, according to a new United Nations report.
Action urged against threat of HIV drug resistance
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 20.07.2017
20 July 2017 – WHO has detailed an increasing trend of resistance to HIV drugs in a new report, warning that this is a growing threat. The HIV drug resistance report 2017 shows that in 6 of the 11 countries surveyed, over 10% of people starting antiretroviral therapy had a strain of HIV resistant to the most widely used medicines.
Dramatic increase in tobacco control policies
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 19.07.2017
19 July 2017 – In a new report published today, WHO finds that about 4.7 billion people, or 63% of the world’s population, are covered by at least one comprehensive tobacco control measure. Strategies such as graphic pack warnings, advertising bans, and no smoking areas have saved millions of people from early death – yet the tobacco industry continues to hamper government interventions.