Force Medical Officers (FMOs) play a vital role in UN peacekeeping missions, ensuring quality medical support in challenging environments. This course provides FMOs with a common understanding of UN medical support structures, policies, and operational parameters to enhance their leadership and readiness.  

The course is particularly relevant for laboratory experts who perform drug-susceptibility testing (DST) for TB and clinicians who use DST results in their routine clinical practice. We hope this training will help refine your practice, thereby strengthening the global capacity to diagnose DR-TB.

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Mycetoma adalah penyakit menular kronis yang dapat merusak sampai jaringan subkutan dan mempengaruhi kulit, otot, dan tulang. Mycetoma terjadi di lingkungan tropis dan subtropis dengan adanya musim hujan yang pendek dan musim kemarau berkepanjangan yang mendukung pertumbuhan semak-semak berduri.

In the majority of Peacekeeping Operations (PKOs), the appointment responsible for gender-related matters is the Military Gender Advisor (MGA). This is a new role in the military component of a peacekeeping operation.

The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat. Its impacts are here, and they are happening now – affecting billions of people around the world on a daily basis.

On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is supporting the Pakistan government to improve the conditions for climate adaptation and resilience as well as climate risk management with a specific focus on vulnerable population, especially women.

This course is intended for decision-makers and programme managers who want to learn more about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.