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This document is one of a technical series that supports the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, convened to renew commitment to Primary Health Care in light of Universal Health Coverage and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. This background document, the Operational Framework, and the associated technical documents are informed by reviews of the literature, 2018 WHO Regional Reports on Primary Health Care, country case studies on PHC, a literature reviews on and synthesis of lessons learned in PHC implementation over the last 40 years, a number of workshops with key stakeholders that agreed on a global roadmap, input from the International Advisory Group on Primary Health Care, public consultations, expert review, and thematic reports on key issues relevant to Primary Health Care.

By Peter Godfrey-Faussett,  Science Adviser, UNAIDS PrEPARING ASIA: A New Direction for HIV Prevention among MSM in Asia Regional Consultation September 2015 Bangkok

AVAC's 2018 annual state of the field report, No Prevention, No End! looks at today's prevention crisis and offers context, analysis and strategy to turn that crisis around.  

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are the two most deadly infectious diseases in the world. Globally in 2016, TB took the lives of more than 1.7 million people,  while 1 million died from HIV-related illnesses. TB is also the leading cause of death for people living with HIV, with about one-third of HIV-related deaths occurring as a result of the co-infection. This document captures the achievements from 2015-2017 of the Multi-Country Western Pacific Integrated HIV/TB Programme. The programme improved the coverage and quality of HIV/TB prevention, treatment and care in 11 countries: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) II provides a set of single national figure on social indicators. It combines the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and the Demographic and Health Survey modules to maximise government resources for a nationally representative sample survey. LSIS II follows the first LSIS I survey which was carried out in 2011-12 jointly by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB) of the Ministry of Planning and Investment in collaboration with other line ministries. The LSIS I provided baseline data for the 7th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP) and the Millennium Development Goals.

The Overview of the Lao Health System Development 2009-2017 present a snapshot of the existing health system, highlighting the significant progress made over the past decade. The report serves as a foundation for WHO and partners to work with the Government to achieve universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. More efforts is needed to support the implementation of the priority health programme by improving access and financial protection for the hard-to-reach population, in leaving no one behind.

The overall objective of this report is to provide health care delivery system program managers with information on the level of availability of basic and essential services in health facilities and the extent of preparedness of the facilities to provide quality health services in each of the seven provinces of Nepal. Following release of the report of the 2015 Nepal Health Facility Survey, the Ministry of Health and Population identified the need to disaggregate the survey results at the province level to allow policymakers to better determine how best to allocate available resources among the provinces. This report is intended to help fill this objective.

This report presents the current status of UHC across PICs by reviewing key health service, finance and outcome indicators such as immunisation, access to improved drinking sources, current health expenditure and etc. This report summarizes key findings from literature review, interviews and a technical consultation: three cross-cutting and interrelated implementation challenges faced by PICs in pursuing the Healthy Islands vision and UHC, with a particular focus on PHC.

The third phase of UNFPA’s Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund (MHTF), from 2018 to 2022, lays out a roadmap for providing maternal and newborn health through a people-centered, human rights-based approach. Fully aligned to UNFPA’s Strategic Plan (2018-2021), the MHTF directly contributes to UNFPA’s transformative result of “ending preventable maternal deaths.” For Phase III, the MHTF has broadened its scope to further contribute to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and accelerating progress towards the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action. Its focus on maternal health includes support to newborn health, which is explicitly reflected in Phase III as maternal and newborn health are indivisible.

Over the past decade, child marriage has continued to decline. Globally, the proportion of young women who were married as children decreased from 1 in 4 to about 1 in 5. It is now estimated that a total of 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children. However, the current rate of decline in child marriage is not sufficient to meet the SDG target of ending child marriage by 2030. What's more, the reduction in child marriage has been uneven. While South Asia has led the way on reducing child marriage, the global burden is shifting to sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of progress need to be accelerated dramatically to reduce the prevalence and offset population growth.