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World Contraception Day #WCD2017

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World Contraception Day #WCD2017

World Contraception Day #WCD2017: World Contraception Day takes place on September 26th every year. The annual worldwide campaign centers around a vision where every pregnancy is wanted. Launched in 2007, WCD’s mission is to improve awareness of contraception and to enable young people to make informed choices on their sexual and reproductive health.

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All international non-governmental organizations, that support observance of World Contraception Day, have a vision of a world where every pregnancy is wanted. Observation of this day raises public awareness of the means of contraception.
WCD’s mission is to improve awareness of contraception and to enable young people to make informed choices on their sexual and reproductive health.

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Benefits of family planning / contraception

Promotion of family planning – and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods for women and couples – is essential to securing the well-being and autonomy of women, while supporting the health and development of communities.

Preventing pregnancy-related health risks in women

A woman’s ability to choose if and when to become pregnant has a direct impact on her health and well-being. Family planning allows spacing of pregnancies and can delay pregnancies in young women at increased risk of health problems and death from early childbearing. It prevents unintended pregnancies, including those of older women who face increased risks related to pregnancy. Family planning enables women who wish to limit the size of their families to do so. Evidence suggests that women who have more than 4 children are at increased risk of maternal mortality.
By reducing rates of unintended pregnancies, family planning also reduces the need for unsafe abortion.

Reducing infant mortality

Family planning can prevent closely spaced and ill-timed pregnancies and births, which contribute to some of the world’s highest infant mortality rates. Infants of mothers who die as a result of giving birth also have a greater risk of death and poor health.

Helping to prevent HIV/AIDS

Family planning reduces the risk of unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV, resulting in fewer infected babies and orphans. In addition, male and female condoms provide dual protection against unintended pregnancies and against STIs including HIV.

Empowering people and enhancing education

Family planning enables people to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health. Family planning represents an opportunity for women to pursue additional education and participate in public life, including paid employment in non-family organizations. Additionally, having smaller families allows parents to invest more in each child. Children with fewer siblings tend to stay in school longer than those with many siblings.

Reducing adolescent pregnancies

Pregnant adolescents are more likely to have preterm or low birth-weight babies. Babies born to adolescents have higher rates of neonatal mortality. Many adolescent girls who become pregnant have to leave school. This has long-term implications for them as individuals, their families and communities.

Slowing population growth

Family planning is key to slowing unsustainable population growth and the resulting negative impacts on the economy, environment, and national and regional development efforts.

 

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“From research to health care: Your pharmacist is at your service” – World Pharmacists Day 2017

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“From research to health care: Your pharmacist is at your service” – World Pharmacists Day 2017

“From research to health care: Your pharmacist is at your service” – World Pharmacists Day 2017.  As designated by the FIP Council several years ago at the FIP Congress in Istanbul, 25 September marks the annual World Pharmacists Day. FIP encourages the world’s pharmacists to use this day to organise activities that promote and advocate for the role of the pharmacist in improving health in every corner of the world.

Diversity of profession to be focus of World Pharmacists Day 2017

 
“From research to health care: Your pharmacist is at your service” is the theme of this year’s World Pharmacists Day on 25 September, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) announced in March. “This theme was chosen to reflect the numerous contributions the pharmacy profession makes to health. From research and development of medicines, to educating future pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists, and providing direct care, we do all this in the service of our patients and communities,” said FIP President Dr Carmen Peña.
“We want to emphasise that pharmacists are the backbone of health care in many different settings. But providing care does not begin in community or hospital pharmacies. Taking care of patients starts with recognising the health issues of populations and developing medicines, policies and education to tackle them. We pharmacists are often there at the very beginning of the process — when the first molecule that effectively treats a disease is identified,” Dr Peña added.
World Pharmacists Day is used by FIP’s members and others around the globe to highlight the value of the pharmacy profession and impact on improving health to authorities, other professions and the media, as well as to the general public. FIP has produced resources for this year’s campaign in the six official United Nations languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. These include an animation and other materials for print and social media.

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Accelerating Action on the Sustainable Development Goals

Global Goals Week takes place each September, marking the anniversary of the SDGs being agreed at the United Nations. Events take place across New York bringing together individuals, governments, businesses, international organisations, NGOs and other partners to showcase ideas, solutions and partnerships around the Goals. Global Goals Week is an opportunity to raise awareness and accelerate the progress being made towards the Global Goals.
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World Alzheimer’s Day 2017 – Remember Me!!

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World Alzheimer’s Day 2017 – Remember Me!!

World Alzheimer’s Day 2017 – Remember Me!!: World Alzheimer’s Day, September 21st of each year, is a day on which Alzheimer’s organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer’s and dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, a group of disorders that impairs mental functioning.
Facts: 

  • Every 3 seconds someone in the world develops dementia but most people with dementia do not receive a diagnosis or support
  • In 2017, there will be an expected 10 million new cases of dementia
  • Governments must develop their own national plans
  • Dementia will become a trillion-dollar disease in 2018
  • Dementia can start to develop in the brain as far as 20 years before onset

Dementia is one of the most significant global health and social crises in the 21st century, yet too often diagnosis is made late. There is no cure for dementia. Nearly 50 million people are currently living with dementia worldwide, and this figure is expected to reach 132 million by 2050 if effective risk-reduction strategies are not implemented.
Dementia is a collective name for progressive brain syndromes which affect memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion. Dementia is the leading cause of disability and dependency among the elderly. Although each person will experience dementia in their own way, eventually those affected are unable to care for themselves and need help with all aspects of daily life.

Dementia is a progressive, degenerative brain syndrome that affects memory, thinking, behaviour and
emotion. Dementia knows no social, economic, ethnic or geographical boundaries and affects people
throughout the world. As dementia progresses individuals affected need care with all aspects of daily life,
worldwide families mostly provide this care.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and accounts for 50-60% of all cases and is
caused by abnormal brain tissue changes.

Signs and symptoms

  • Memory loss
  • Difficulty performing familiar tasks
  • Problems with language
  • Disorientation to time and place
  • Poor or decreased judgement
  • Problems keeping track of things
  • Misplacing things
  • Changes in mood and behaviour
  • Trouble with images and spatial relationships
  • Withdrawal from work or social activities

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Prevention Tips 

Some risks factors to brain health cannot be controlled or prevented, like your age or genetics. Other risk factors, like health choices, are under your control. For example, you can:

  • Get active and stay active.
  • Manage cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
  • Learn new things.
  • Connect with your family, friends and communities.

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Tips to reduce Alzheimer’s risk:

  • Maintain a healthy weight.
  • Eat mindfully. Include vegetables and fruits; whole grains; fish, lean poultry, tofu, and beans and other legumes as protein sources; and healthy fats in your diet.
  • Exercise regularly for about 30 minutes every day as this helps improve blood flow to the brain.
  • Keep an eye on important health numbers such as cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and blood sugar.
  • Exercise the brain through related games such as puzzles, crosswords, memory, and mental activity games.

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The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

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The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms
News release (WHO Media Center)
20 SEPTEMBER 2017 | GENEVA
A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis, launched today by WHO shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Most of the drugs currently in the clinical pipeline are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short-term solutions. The report found very few potential treatment options for those antibiotic-resistant infections identified by WHO as posing the greatest threat to health, including drug-resistant tuberculosis which kills around 250 000 people each year.
“Antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency that will seriously jeopardize progress in modern medicine,” says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. “There is an urgent need for more investment in research and development for antibiotic-resistant infections including TB, otherwise we will be forced back to a time when people feared common infections and risked their lives from minor surgery.”
In addition to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, WHO has identified 12 classes of priority pathogens – some of them causing common infections such as pneumonia or urinary tract infections – that are increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics and urgently in need of new treatments.
The report identifies 51 new antibiotics and biologicals in clinical development to treat priority antibiotic-resistant pathogens, as well as tuberculosis and the sometimes deadly diarrhoeal infection Clostridium difficile.
Among all these candidate medicines, however, only 8 are classed by WHO as innovative treatments that will add value to the current antibiotic treatment arsenal.
There is a serious lack of treatment options for multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant M. tuberculosis and gram-negative pathogens, including Acinetobacter and Enterobacteriaceae (such as Klebsiella and E.coli) which can cause severe and often deadly infections that pose a particular threat in hospitals and nursing homes.
There are also very few oral antibiotics in the pipeline, yet these are essential formulations for treating infections outside hospitals or in resource-limited settings.
“Pharmaceutical companies and researchers must urgently focus on new antibiotics against certain types of extremely serious infections that can kill patients in a matter of days because we have no line of defence,” says Dr Suzanne Hill, Director of the Department of Essential Medicines at WHO.
To counter this threat, WHO and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) set up the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (known as GARDP). On 4 September 2017, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Wellcome Trust pledged more than €56 million for this work.
“Research for tuberculosis is seriously underfunded, with only two new antibiotics for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis having reached the market in over 70 years,” says Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme. “If we are to end tuberculosis, more than US$ 800 million per year is urgently needed to fund research for new antituberculosis medicines”.
New treatments alone, however, will not be sufficient to combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance. WHO works with countries and partners to improve infection prevention and control and to foster appropriate use of existing and future antibiotics. WHO is also developing guidance for the responsible use of antibiotics in the human, animal and agricultural sectors.

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National Family Planning Day 2017

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National Family Planning Day, celebrated on 18th Sep every year to advocate family planning services. 

National Family Planning Day 2017

National Family Planning Day 2017


The theme of Fourth National Family Planning Day 2017 is ‘‘Byabastit Pariwar: Swasthya ra Bikas ko Adhar”. Government of Nepal & partner organizations will organize various activities national-wide to advocate family planning services. The main aim of the National Family Planning Day is to raise awareness on family planning which will helps to ensure individuals and couples are able to fulfill their reproductive needs by using appropriate family planning methods based on informed choice.

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Family Planning ''Opportunities, challenges & Priorities in Nepal

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Family Planning ” Opportunities, challenges & Priorities in Nepal

COUNTRY CONTEXT

  • There is a stagnated CPR and unmet need remains high
  • Inequalities in accessing family planning (FP) and demand for FP
  • Proportion of long-acting and reversible contraceptive usage is low

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Developed National Health Sector Strategy (2016-2020) and Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) (2015- 2020)
  • Data on FP and health services from national surveys (MICS, health facility survey 2016 and NDHS) available
  • Existence of strong national coordination mechanism (FP sub-committee)
  • Wide-spread demand generation interventions supported by many donors and government
  • Existing capacity for integrated FP services at Primary Healthcare Center(PHC)/Health Post(HP)
  • Expanding engagement of private sector in procurement and supply of contraceptives

CHALLENGES

  • Inefficient public procurement system, which creates delays for contraceptive procurement leading to frequent stock outs
  • Issues with quality of data: accuracy, adequacy, and time.
  • Quality of FP counseling services remains an issue
  • Lack of skilled health workers to provide quality FP

PRIORITIES

  • Effective advocacy with Parliament and Ministry of Finance to prevent budget cuts for FP and Ministry of
    Health to centrally position FP within the integrated service delivery; formalization of public-private
    partnerships and partnership with civil society
  • Expand LARC service sites and also training sites on quality FP (including in counseling)
  • Expand access to contraceptives among adolescents (including for unmarried adolescents) and
    marginalized populations (both rural and urban)
  • Improve health system mechanisms for procurement and supply-chain to ensure regular availability of
    commodities at service delivery points
  • Harmonize logistic data from various sources (LMIS, HMIS, etc) for realistic and accurate forecasting
The above analysis was originally developed by FP2020 focal points for Nepal in collaboration with the
FP2020 Secretariat and other partners during the Asia Focal Point Workshop in Bali, Indonesia in January
2016. FP2020’s focal point representatives are from the government and two donor organizations, usually
UNFPA and USAID, and serve as the key representatives of FP2020 in-country. They coordinate with each
other, the government, partners and other stakeholders, and the FP2020 Secretariat to drive progress on
the country’s family planning goals. These opportunities, challenges, and priorities serve as the foundation
of the shared agenda of action across the next 12- to 18-month horizon. (Original Source of information) 

 
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World hunger again on the rise, driven by conflict and climate change, new UN report says

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World hunger again on the rise, driven by conflict and climate change, new UN report says

815 million people now hungry – Millions of children at risk from malnutrition

15 September 2017, Rome – After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released today. At the same time, multiple forms of malnutrition are threatening the health of millions worldwide.
The increase – 38 million more people than the previous year – is largely due to the proliferation of violent conflicts and climate-related shocks, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017.
Some 155 million children aged under five are stunted (too short for their age), the report says, while 52 million suffer from wasting, meaning their weight is too low for their height. An estimated 41 million children are now overweight. Anaemia among women and adult obesity are also cause for concern. These trends are a consequence not only of conflict and climate change but also of sweeping changes in dietary habits as well as economic slowdowns. 
The report is the first UN global assessment on food security and nutrition to be released following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 as a top international policy priority.
It singles out conflict – increasingly compounded by climate change – as one of the key drivers behind the resurgence of hunger and many forms of malnutrition.
“Over the past decade, conflicts have risen dramatically in number and become more complex and intractable in nature,” the heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said in their joint foreword to the report. They stressed that some of the highest proportions of food-insecure and malnourished children in the world are now concentrated in conflict zones. 
“This has set off alarm bells we cannot afford to ignore: we will not end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 unless we address all the factors that undermine food security and nutrition. Securing peaceful and inclusive societies is a necessary condition to that end,” they said.
Famine struck in parts of South Sudan for several months in early 2017, and there is a high risk that it could reoccur there as well as appear in other conflict-affected places, namely northeast Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, they noted.
But even in regions that are more peaceful droughts or floods linked in part to the El Niño weather phenomenon, as well as the global economic slowdown, have also seen food security and nutrition deteriorate, they added.
Key numbers
Hunger and food security

  • Overall number of hungry people in the world: 815 million, including:
     – In Asia: 520 million
     – In Africa: 243 million
     – In Latin America and the Caribbean: 42 million
  • Share of the global population who are hungry: 11%
     – Asia: 11.7%
     – Africa: 20% (in eastern Africa, 33.9%)
     – Latin America and the Caribbean: 6.6%

Malnutrition in all its forms

  • Number of children under 5 years of age who suffer from stunted growth (height too low for their age) : 155 million
     – Number of those living in countries affected by varying levels of conflict: 122 million
  • Children under 5 affected by wasting (weight too low given their height): 52 million
  • Number of adults who are obese: 641 million (13% of all adults on the planet)
  • Children under 5 who are overweight: 41 million
  • Number of women of reproductive age affected by anaemia: 613 million (around 33% of the total)

The impact of conflict

  • Number of the 815 million hungry people on the planet who live in countries affected by conflict: 489 million
  • The prevalence of hunger in countries affected by conflict is 1.4 – 4.4 percentage points higher than in other countries
  • In conflict settings compounded by conditions of institutional and environmental fragility, the prevalence is 11 and 18 percentage points higher
  • People living in countries affected by protracted crises are nearly 2.5 times more likely to be undernourished than people elsewhere

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017

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Shining a spotlight on maternal and neonatal sepsis: World Sepsis Day 2017

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Shining a spotlight on maternal and neonatal sepsis: World Sepsis Day 2017

WHO calls for prevention of life-threatening condition

Shining a spotlight on maternal and neonatal sepsis: World Sepsis Day 2017: 12 September 2017: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body’s response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. As infections frequently complicate serious diseases, sepsis is a final common pathway to death from both communicable and non-communicable diseases around the world. If sepsis develops during pregnancy, while or after giving birth, or after an abortion, it is called maternal sepsis. Sepsis in newborn babies is called neonatal sepsis.

Despite being highly preventable, maternal and neonatal sepsis continues to be a major cause of death and
 morbidity for pregnant or recently pregnant women and newborn babies. Infections are the primary cause
 of approximately 35000 maternal deaths every year. As a primary or contributing cause, sepsis can be
associated with up to 100000 maternal deaths every year. Neonatal sepsis kills around 1 million newborn
babies every year.

Risk factors: When health facilities are overcrowded and poorly resourced women are at greater risk of infection and sepsis. Women who undergo caesarean sections in such conditions are at even greater risk. Health workers are also often unaware of the signs and symptoms of sepsis and so are unable to recognise the condition and treat it in time.
Sepsis can be prevented
One of the greatest tragedies of the thousands of deaths caused by sepsis, is that they could have been easily prevented. As Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus outlines in his video address, we know what can be done to reduce the risk of sepsis:

  • access to clean water and sanitation;
  • access to quality care during pregnancy and birth;
  • responsible and timely access to the right medicines;
  • proper infection prevention and control in hospitals and clinics.
    In addition, health workers need to be adequately trained and skilled to be able to recognise the signs of sepsis and to treat the condition effectively.

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Reducing sepsis-related deaths can be achieved by attention to simple health measures in healthcare
facilities during the peripartum period, such as:

  • Promoting handwashing
  • Ensuring clean birth practices
  • Reducing overcrowding in facilities
  • Improving access to water and sanitation
  • Strengthening infection prevention and control measures

Source of info : Global Maternal & Neonatal Sepsis Initiative 

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