was occurring in Rwanda, thousands of women and young girls were raped and sexually tortured. For those that survived the consequences of the aftermath were significant, in many cases the victims became pregnant and/or had been exposed to the deadly HIV virus. The purpose of this review is to describe the application of concepts, principles, and theories related to crisis, trauma, and disaster with a specific concentration on the female rape survivors in Rwanda. * A Brief History of the Crisis
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Glossary acetylcholinesterase: It is an enzyme that carries out the process of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter) break-down at the region between two nerve cells (synaptic cleft) so that the impulse gets transmitted from one neuron to another. achalasia cardia: It is also called as cardiospasm and in this case the neuromuscular failure of oesophageal relaxation especially at the lower end with progressive dilatation of the part of the oesophagus above. actin-myosin crossbridging: It is responsible
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Assessment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis drugs supply chain network design and performance measures at health facilities of Jimma town, southwest Ethiopia By: Alula Tadesse, SintayehuTarekegn&TadesseGudeta A term paper to be submitted to Dr.TemesgenGaroma (PhD) for partial fulfillment of advanced logistics and supply chain management course April, 2015 Jimma, Ethiopia Jimma University College of Health Sciences Department of Pharmacy Assessment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis
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Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology Vol. 4(5), pp. 117-122, May 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/JPHE DOI: 10.5897/JPHE11.194 ISSN 2141-2316 ©2012 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Female genital mutilation in Southeast Nigeria: A survey on the current knowledge and practice Ibekwe Perpetus C.*, Onoh Robinson C, Onyebuchi Azubike K., Ezeonu Paul O. and Ibekwe Rosemary O. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Federal Medical Centre, Abakaliki, Ebonyi
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ÚVOD Sjögrenův syndrom (SS) je chronickým zánětlivým onemocněním, při němž jsou výrazně postiženy exokrinní žlázy, což způsobuje narušení žlázového parenchymu, které vede ke ztrátě funkčnosti postižených žláz. SS je jedním z nejčastějších autoimunitních onemocnění (Manthorpe, 1999). Příčiny vzniku tohoto syndromu nejsou dosud známé, nicméně se pravděpodobně jedná o kombinace několika faktorů, např. poruchy funkce lymfocytů, apoptózy či genetické mutace. HISTORIE První případ příznaků nemoci, dnes
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Evaluation of Interventions to Decrease the HIV/STI Risk Behaviors of African American Youth: Can We Control Future Trends? Beatrice Simiyu Capstone Project Dr. Bruce Johnson Abstract As a result of the need to recognize successful human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) interventions tailored for African American youth, a literature review of six HIV/STI randomized controlled trials interventions targeting African American youth conducted in the United
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WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care: a Summary First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care a WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care: a Summary © World Health Organization 2009 WHO/IER/PSP/2009.07 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (tel.: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791 4857; e-mail: bookorders@who.int). Requests for permission
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Strategies for Tuberculosis Control from Experiences in Manila: The Role of Public-Private Collaboration and of Intermittent Therapy INAUGURALDISSERTATION zur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktors der Philosophie vorgelegt der Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Basel von Christian Auer aus Bottmingen (BL) Basel, Mai 2003 Genehmigt von der Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Basel auf Antrag von Herrn Prof. Dr. Marcel Tanner
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intimate contact, semen during sexual contact, in some rare cases via blood transfusion and is linked to the Epstein-Barr virus. It is rare that mononucleosis will be caused by any other virus such as the cytomegalovirus (CMV), Hepatitis A, B, or C, HIV, Toxoplasmosis Streptococcal pharyngitis or Rubella. EBV infects the B cells in the oropharyngeal epithelium and also from the uterine cervix, which has implicated the role of genital transmission in some cases. B cells are a type of white blood cell
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Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, PhD, MPH TA: Melissa Raguet-Schofield Lana = IPH basement Mon 9-11 * Course: topical modules * Textbook: brief case studies * Posting is on ARES * On case studies: 15 of those 20 days you must come with a written paragraph thinking about the case ahead of time * * * NOTES: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 * * What is Health? Mental/physical well-being WHO (1948): “..a state of completely well-being, physical, social, and mental and not
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