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Published in Rose Cull, Daniel Cull, Museums and Well-being, 2023
Safeguarding is an area that we would recommend. In the USA the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) offers a certification programme4 concerned with promoting the safety, independence and quality-of-life for the most vulnerable adults in our society: the frail, the elderly, and persons with physical and/or intellectual disabilities who are at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation. They also have published guidelines for minimum standards.5 In the UK the rules and regulations for safeguarding are outlined in the 2014 Care Act,6 which sets out six principles that underpin the safeguarding of adults: empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership and accountability. The Ann Craft Trust offers training in the UK on these principles, as well as similar training for safeguarding children.7
Rites of Resistance: Sex Workers’ Fight to Maintain Rights and Pleasure in the Centre of the Response to HIV in Brazil
Published in Emily E. Vasquez, Amaya Perez-Brume, Richard G. Parker, Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America, 2020
Laura Rebecca Murray, Deanna Kerrigan, Vera Silvia Paiva
The dismantling of Brazil’s public health system raises critical questions about sustaining a rights-based approach to health in times of political crisis. The SUS is an outcome of extensive civil society mobilizations after two decades of dictatorship (Paiva & Teixeira, 2014). It was formalised in Brazil’s 1988 democratic constitution and has been a cornerstone of the AIDS response for a series of interrelated reasons, perhaps most importantly because mobilisation in response to the HIV epidemic in Brazil occurred in parallel to the influential public health reform movement to establish the SUS (Daniel & Parker, 1991; Parker, 2003). The National AIDS Programme (NAP) invited representatives from social movements active in fights against the dictatorship to be involved in designing the country’s first HIV prevention actions for their peers soon after was founded, bringing together public health reform movements and social movements for sexual rights.
Three-Dimensional Structures of the Chemokine Family
Published in Richard Horuk, Chemoattractant Ligands and Their Receptors, 2020
Wayne J. Fairbrother, Nicholas J. Skelton
The conformation of the N-terminal E-L-R region of NAP-2 is well defined in every subunit except subunit C, which lacks electron density for residues Alai to Leu3. However, the precise conformation adopted by the E-L-R region depends strongly upon the local environment and is different in each subunit. The conformational heterogeneity observed for the E-L-R motif in NAP-2 is consistent with the observed flexibility of this region of IL-8,33 together with the disorder found in the equivalent regions of both the IL-8 and MGSA solution structures.
Adult Protective Services Training: Insights from California Caseworkers
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2021
Pi-Ju Liu, Alicia Neumann, Kate Radcliffe, Anna Chodos
1. Consider caseworker caseload, since it is a barrier to ability to participate in and benefit from training. Where possible, temporarily reduced caseload should be a component of planning a training. At the national level, conduct a caseload study to investigate how overworked caseworkers are, and how it impedes caseworkers’ professional development and provision of best services to clients. The other possibility is to provide incentives to encourage participation in training. For example, NAPSA offers a certificate (NAPSA, n.d.-b) for caseworkers who complete the 23 core competency trainings. The certificate could potentially professionalize the field and encourage training (Liu & Ross, 2020), especially if caseworkers were to testify in court or seek promotion opportunities. Otherwise, more training sessions do not translate to more training, let alone effective training, for caseworkers.
Students as catalysts for curricular innovation: A change management framework
Published in Medical Teacher, 2020
Jesse Burk-Rafel, Kevin B. Harris, Jacqueline Heath, Alyssa Milliron, David J. Savage, Susan E. Skochelak
In 2012, the AMA Medical Student Section selected two student leaders to serve on the ACE initiative’s National Advisory Panel (NAP) (Activator 2 – Broaden Student Roles). These student leaders shared their first-hand perspective on the strengths and deficiencies of medical education programs, discussing a growing disconnect between basic science training and essential medical knowledge needed for patient care, and how the preclinical experience can be skewed toward US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) preparation. They also highlighted gaps in medical education such as health policy, quality improvement, leadership training, procedural skills, and interprofessional team-based care – concepts traditionally left to students to learn independently (Step 1 – Create Urgency). Voicing these experiences at NAP meetings influenced several themes in the Request for Applications (RFA), including competency-based education, health systems curricula, and educational experiences tailored to learners’ career paths and patient needs (Steps 2 and 3 – Build a Coalition; Formulate a Vision), which shaped the initial cohort of ACE institutions.
Treatment outcomes 12 months after antiretroviral therapy initiation in Oman: a nationwide study from the Middle East
Published in AIDS Care, 2023
A Elgalib, S. Shah, A. Al-Wahaibi, Z. Al-Habsi, M. Al-Fouri, R. Lau, H. Al-Kindi, B. Al-Rawahi, S. Al-Abri
Oman is situated in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. The HIV incidence and prevalence are low in Oman (Elgalib et al., 2020b; UNAIDS, 2019); the UNAIDS data show that HIV incidence (0.07 per 1000 adults) and prevalence (0.2 per 1000 adults) in Oman were stable in 2010–2019 (UNAIDS, 2019). The Omani NAP was formed in 1996; it is now part of the Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control (DGDSC) at the Ministry of Health. Under the Universal Health Coverage, HIV care and ART are provided free of charge to people living with HIV in Oman. There are currently 14 public treatment centres in the country; 4 are in Muscat (all are consultant-led), and ten are outside Muscat (one is consultant-led).