Nayana Dhavan

Nayana Dhavan started a discussion "Live Seminar: ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?" in the Health IT community.

Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum:A Global Community for Humanitarian Professionals: Harvard Program on on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research - click this link to register https://hsphevents.webex.com/mw0306lb/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=hsphevents&service=6&main_url=https://hsphevents.webex.com/ec0605lb/eventcenter/event/eventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D278906420%26siteurl%3Dhsphevents%26%26%26 Description: This Live Seminar will examine questions and challenges pertaining to the development, use and effects of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in humanitarian activities. Increasingly used by humanitarian professionals in situations of emergency, armed conflicts and disasters, ICT has emerged as a component of effective and sustainable delivery ...

Nayana Dhavan replied to "Live Seminar: ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?" in the Health IT community.

This is a free online seminar, please register in advance.

Nayana Dhavan replied to "Current guidelines on formula vs. exclusive breastfeeding?" in the HIV Prevention community.

Here are the 2009 WHO guidelines on HIV and breastfeeding. WHO. 2009. Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV – November 2009. Geneva. http://www.who.int/child_adolescent_health/documents/9789241598873/en/index.html I am pasting text from 2 sections. The guidelines advise that HIV positive mothers " breastfeed and receive ARV interventions,1 or avoid all breastfeeding". The document recognizes that ART reduce the risk of HIV transmission while allowing for the general health benefits of ...

Nayana Dhavan started a discussion "UN Women: A new UN entity focusing on women" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

The UN announced a new UN entity focusing on women and bringing together the various UN bodies (ex. UNIFEM, DAW)who work on women's issues. What are the community's thoughts on this development? http://www.unwomen.org/?utm_source=MHTF+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ee80151fc8-MH_BUZZ7_6_2010&utm_medium=email "In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously on 2 July 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and ...

Nayana Dhavan started a discussion "WHO: Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

WHO published a new resource: "OVERVIEW Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are major public health concerns in most developing countries and in under resourced settings. WHO estimates that every year approximately 8 million women endure pregnancy-related complications and around half a million die as a result. Almost 9 million children die every year, of which 4 million newborn babies die within the first month of life. In addition, 3.3 million babies are born dead. ...