GLOSSARY

ARV: (1) Anti-retroviral medication for the treatment of AIDS. (2) Attestation of Voluntary Return which is french for Certificate of Voluntary Return. This is the document issued to IDPs who have voluntarily chosen to return to their homes and leave the IDP camps.

BCG: A vaccine against Tuberculosis.

BCZ: Bureau central de la zone de santé.

CDVCentre de Dépistage Volontaire. Décomptage: Cette activité est habituellement mise en œuvre après le fixing qui consiste à recueillir des informations (données) liées à l′individu ou au groupe d′individu (sur la base de la méthode utilisée pendant le fixing). Des-enregistrement: Mise à jour et des-enregistrement des départs spontanés sur les sites de personnes déplacées.

DTP-HepB-Hib: Vaccine which combines five different vaccines in one injection to protect against Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib), Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Hepatitis B.

Sampling: The process of selecting a representative portion ("sample") of the total population for extracting data. This procedure can dramatically reduce the cost of the operation in terms of time, human and other resources, while maintaining reliable data.

Record: One of the methods of profiling. It involves collecting and storing personal data in detail to identify the person later, for example, to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance and protection. Registration is not always necessary and sometimes not even desirable, in a context of people displaced within their own country.

Survey: Includes data collection on a sample or a portion of the general population to generate results. Surveys can be used to identify displaced persons in a group larger population or to identify groups with special needs within the population displaced within their own country.

Outbreak: The occurrence of a contagious disease that attacks many people at the same time.

Fixing: Involves the physical marking of individuals or households (family groups). It is generally used to prevent the counting of the same individual / group of individuals repeatedly.

Incidence: The incidence is the number of new events occurring in a defined population. Includes only new cases. Used primarily to monitor the short-term illnesses such as communicable diseases.

Indicator: An indicator is a simple tool that monitors developments in a periodic phenomenon, positioning relative to targets. Morbidity: Number of people with a given disease during a given time, usually one year in a population. The incidence (new cases) or prevalence (the sum of all cases) are two ways of expressing the morbidity of a disease.

Standard: Threshold at which an indicator is known to have met significance.

IDP: Internally displaced persons are "persons or groups who have been forced or were forced to flee or leave their homes or places of habitual residence, by reason of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict , situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural disasters or man, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state. "(Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Introduction, para. 2) (Ref.: IDMC)

EPI: Expanded Programme on Immunization.

Polio: Vaccin contre la poliomyélite.

Prevalence: Prevalence is the number of existing events (like diseases or vulnerabilities) present in a defined population. It includes the old and new cases.

Profiling: An identification process during which data on individuals or groups of persons who have been displaced within their own country are collected. The purpose of this exercise is to advocate for these displaced people, to improve activities related to protection, to ensure assistance and finally to find a lasting solution for the displaced. The data collected during profiling vary depending on the context. Profiling is not just numbers, and the information collected can help understand (s) cause (s) of travel, modes of transportation, protection issues, the main humanitarian needs and possible solutions for the group self. Profiling can understand the needs, but it is different from a "needs assessment", which aims to gather and analyze a variety of data to obtain an overview of the humanitarian and protection needs. Profiling and needs are different, but if necessary, additional exercises can be performed simultaneously.

PMTCT: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV during pregnancy.

GIS: GIS is an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data and personnel able to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze and present all forms of geographically referenced information.

HIS: An information system including people, processes and resources that collect health information and then process and disseminate that information in an organization. The HIS is the primary source of information in the health sector. Its purpose is not to accumulate information but to improve decision-making.

UNS: Unit of Nutritional Supplementation. Unit that provides nutritional support for moderate malnutrition.

UNTA: Nutritional Therapy Unit. Unit that provides nutritional support for severe malnutrition without complications.

UNTI: Therapeutic Unit Nutritional. Unit that provides nutritional support for severe malnutrition with complications.

VAR: Anti-measles vaccine.

VAT: anti-tetanus vaccine