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01 June 2021 In support to the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), WHO and UNICEF have issued a technical information note on leveraging C19RM funds to invest in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data with the aim of optimizing national COVID-19 responses and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and on health and community systems strengthening. The guidance maps eligible C19RM investments in spatial data, for example georeferenced ...

Introduction ATR has become the dominant method for collecting an FTIR spectrum of solid materials. It requires little or no sample preparation and is effective at both qualitative and quantitative measurements. Compared to the older method of preparing a KBr pellet for transmission spectroscopy, important differences emerge. An ATR spectrum is not directly comparable to a transmission spectrum, although software algorithms are available in most commercial spectrometers capable of converting an...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® held steady in May, following a gain in April. The Index now stands at 117.2 (1985=100), down...

Regulatory Approaches to the Interest Earned on E-Money Float Accounts May 2021 Share Electronic money issuers are usually required by regulation to set aside an amount equivalent to the total e-money issued in one or more separate accounts in banks, called “float accounts”, and most often these accounts earn interest called “float interest”. As digital financial services take center stage in the post-pandemic world, issues around what happens to this interest will become ever more impo...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the first quarter of 2021, the agriculture and cattle-raising sector generated a positive balance of 60,575 new jobs, the best result for the period since 2007, when 62,245 new jobs were created. The analysis is part of the Technical Note issued by the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) and was based on data from the General Registry of Employed and Unemployed (CAGED), released April 29 by the Ministry of Economy. According to CNA, jobs were c...

Professor Abraham Katzir using his innovation on a patient. For the first time, melanoma can be diagnosed automatically in real-time. An innovative optical technology that can distinguish between different types of cancer — melanoma, which is considered extremely deadly – has been developed in the laboratory of Professor Abraham Katzir, from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University. The diagnosis is rapid, non-invasive, and causes no pain to the patie...

Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2020 02/25/2021 | 09:21am EDT Send by mail : Message : February 25, 2021 Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, reflecting both the continued economic recovery from the sharp declines earlier in the year and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including new restrictions and closures that took effect in some areas of the United States. The increase was 0...

Brazil’s Anvisa clarifies new ingredients labelling rules for cosmetics Vincent Gallon Share: In addition to the resolution published on November 2020 requiring the ingredient list of cosmetic products placed on the Brazilian market to be labelled in Portuguese, the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has just published a technical note specifying the rules applicable from November 2021. Anvisa, the Brazilian agency responsible for overseeing the safety of drugs and cosmetics, ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In December 2020, the Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities and the Elimination of Discrimination at Work ("COORDIGUALDADE") from the Public Labor Prosecution Office ("MPT") issued Technical Note 02/2020 ("Technical Note") to guide the agency in defending the rights of the LGBTQIA+ population in the labor context. According to the Technical Note, MPT guides that the Attorneys of ...

The Regulations have been made to specify that the legal and supervisory framework for stock exchanges in Switzerland meet at least equivalent outcomes to the UKs corresponding regime. The Regulations will allow all investment firms, which are subject to the trading obligation set out in Article 23(1) of the retained EU law version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (UK MiFIR), to trade shares that fall within scope of the share trading obligation on Swiss trading venues that ha...