Is it not just an expensive waste of time – especially when all previous efforts have failed, including nearly 20 international conferences and half a dozen military interventions – to bring together nearly 60 world leaders and just eight Somalis?
My interest in international emergency medicine is driven by a desire to share emergency medicine skills and knowledge on a large scale, through systems strengthening and capacity building interventions, to bring emergency services to places where they don't currently exist.
In particular, it is considered to be valuable in developing realistic, time-bound interventions, prioritizing the most affected parts of a city or region, identifying high-risk populations, places, or sectors that need attention, and developing targeted interventions to bring the most benefit.
UNICEF will also support adopting multi-sectoral approaches combining both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to bring about a more holistic sustainable response to improved child nutrition.
Relating identified barriers to the aspects of the TPB can be useful as a guidance for the development and evaluation of interventions to bring on behavioral changes [ 33].
Inaccuracies in calculating this core indicator can have profound implications, including for negotiating donor funding for PMTCT programmes, monitoring progress towards internationally agreed targets, identifying weaknesses in PMTCT programmes, and subsequently implementing necessary interventions to bring about improvements in coverage.
