Communicable Diseases
An infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses but also more unusual types. Hosts can fight infections using their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response. Specific medications used to treat infections …
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WHO: World Health Organization · 20 November 2024 French
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(UNAIDS). Responding to the challenge of non-communicable diseases, United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, … Duffy M, Ojikutu B, Andrian S et al. Non-communicable diseases and HIV care and treatment: models of integrated …
WHO: World Health Organization · 17 November 2024 English
vii, 11 p.
Intelligence), Raffaella Casolino (Non Communicable Diseases), Sara Hersey (Collaborative Intelligence) … Collaborative intelligence: Josefina Campos. Non communicable diseases: Raffaella Casolino. Research for Health: …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 English
ix, 33 p.
gonorrhoeae NICD National Institute for Communicable Diseases (in South Africa) NIPH National Institute … Johannesburg, Gauteng Province; Prince Cyril Zulu Communicable Diseases Centre, Durban, KwaZulu Natal Province; …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 English
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Jacqueline Weyer, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa; Eleanor Ochodo, Stellenbosch …
WHO: World Health Organization · 14 November 2024 English
Healthy diets in the WHO European Region are undermined by the marketing practices promoting of energy-dense, highly processed foods and beverages. This marketing influences children’s social norms and consumption patterns, …
reducing rates of obesity and NCDs (Non-communicable diseases) over the long term (4,5). This report …
WHO: World Health Organization · 14 November 2024 English
xiii, 51 p.
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
Increased spread of HIV/AIDS and STDs and other communicable diseases. .......................... 309 6.10.3 … spread of HIV/AIDS and STDs as well as other communicable diseases ...... 339 6.10.7.8 Increased insecurity …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This brief shows how civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) are rooted in strong village traditions of community support, maps their growth, and explains …
rural areas and discusses the dangers of communicable diseases as a part of a health awareness campaign …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
This is likely to increase transmission of communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS if efforts to address the … as ESHS aspects, (Not inclusive other communicable diseases 147,500,000.00 2. HIV/AIDS Awareness … Awareness Campaign and other communicable diseases 80,000,000.00 3. Environmental and Social Monitoring (ESMP) …
WHO: World Health Organization · 13 November 2024 English
vi, 20 p.
Sarah Jamal National programme officer Communicable diseases WHO Country Office for Maldives Male … TB Tuberculosis Control Department of Communicable Diseases WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia …
