WHO & Regionals [to 5 December 2015]

Improving the quality of care at birth
4 December 2015 — Worldwide, the majority of maternal and newborn deaths occur around the time of birth, typically within the first 24 hours after childbirth. Most of these deaths are preventable. WHO’s new “Safe Childbirth Checklist and Implementation Guide” targets the major causes of maternal and newborn complications and deaths, including post-partum haemorrhage, infection, obstructed labour, preeclampsia and birth asphyxia.
Press release on the safe child birth checklist

First ever global estimates of foodborne diseases
3 December 2015 — Almost one third (30%) of all deaths from foodborne diseases are in children under the age of 5 years, despite the fact that they make up only 9% of the global population. This is among the findings of WHO’s “Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases” – the most comprehensive report to date on the impact of contaminated food on health and wellbeing. The report estimates the burden of foodborne diseases caused by 31 agents – bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins and chemicals.
Read the press release
Global Alert and Response (GAR) – Disease Outbreak News (DONs)
:: 4 December 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Saudi Arabia
:: 3 December 2015 Zika virus infection – Venezuela
:: 3 December 2015 Zika virus infection – Mexico
:: 3 December 2015 Zika virus infection – Paraguay
Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 04 December 2015, vol. 90, 49 (pp. 661–680) includes;
661 African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: progress report, 2014–2015
675 Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2015

IVB
:: Request for proposals Develop Design and Budget for Pilot Implementation of Malaria Vaccine
3 December 2015 Information and submission of proposals pdf, 101kb
Application deadline: 31 December 2015

:: Request for proposals: Group B streptococcus briefing document
2 December 2015 Information and submission of proposals pdf, 100kb
Deadline for application: 30 December 2015

:: GIN November 2015 pdf, 2.09Mb
30 November 2015
:: WHO Regional Offices
WHO African Region AFRO
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WHO Region of the Americas PAHO
:: The health challenges posed by urbanization must be addressed through cross-sector policies, experts say (12/03/2015)
:: PAHO/WHO and Foreign Medical Teams Examine How to Strengthen Emergency Response to Outbreaks and Disasters (12/01/2015)
:: Data from 17 countries and territories in the Americas point to elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis (11/30/2015)

WHO South-East Asia Region SEARO
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WHO European Region EURO
:: More than 23 million people in the WHO European Region fall ill from unsafe food every year 03-12-2015
:: Papers invited for Public Health Panorama 30-11-2015

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
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WHO Western Pacific Region
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