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The Hong Kong STD/AIDS update is a composite report on HIV/AIDS reporting and STI caseload statistics published 3 monthly. The current issue has the updated information up to March 2018.  

The Hong Kong STD/AIDS update is a composite report on HIV/AIDS reporting and STI caseload statistics published 3 monthly. The current issue has the updated information up to June 2018.

Gaps in gender data and the lack of trend data make it difficult to monitor progress for women and girls. Unless gender is mainstreamed into national statistical strategies and prioritized in data collection, gender data scarcity and gaps will persist. Investment in national statistical capacity is central to improving the coverage, quality, and timeliness of data for monitoring gender equality and the SDGs. But beyond this, making sure that data represent the lived reality of women and girls in all their diversity by addressing deep-seated biases in concepts, definitions, classifications, and methodologies, is essential to making women and girls visible.  

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.

ASEAN Red Ribbon for Outstanding Workplace (ARROW) Award   

In June 2018, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a powerful rebuke against this growing “contempt for human rights”, arguing that it threatens the very structures that have been designed to ensure our common safety and prosperity. The UDHR – drafted in the wake of two devastating world wars, overwhelming genocide and a crippling economic depression – sought to affirm our common humanity and set a pathway to peace and development for all people, founded on the principles of equality and non-discrimination.

The aim of the operational plan is to operationalize the Strategic Plan (SP) 2016-2020 by outlining the goals, specific objectives indicators and targets under the eight priority (outcome) areas of the SP 2016-2020. The Ministry of Health & Medical Services (MHMS) SP 2016-2020 outlines the vision and mission and a set of agreed values to guide MHMS operations. MHMS is working towards achieving this vision by empowering people to take ownership of their health and providing quality preventative, curative and rehabilitative services through a caring and sustainable healthcare system.

The aim of the report is to document participation efforts and outcomes across countries, and highlight differences and constraints identified to date. In this first GLASS report data vary considerably in terms of completeness, so no attempt was made to compare AMR status at a regional or global level. However, as GLASS and country participation evolves, the data reported will help understand surveillance capacities and mechanisms of reporting across countries in all regions, and will inform further GLASS development.

The Asia Pacific – the world’s most populous and diverse region – is in a state of enormous flux, with many vulnerable people whose fundamental human rights are under grave threat. Conflict and insecurity have led millions of people to flee across borders in recent years, forced from their homes to seek safety but often left in precarious and exploitative situations.

The present guidance was developed with the support of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR) to assist countries and other stakeholders in the establishment and development of programmes of integrated surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the foodborne bacteria (i.e., bacteria commonly transmitted by food) by taking a One Health approach. This guidance document replaces the previous version published in 2013.