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While travelling abroad is straightforward for a great number of people, it is fair to say that it does not always pass without a hitch. Problems can – and sadly do – happen, so it is undoubtedly important to be prepared for whenever one may rear its head. Here, we take a look at four particularly common issues which can occur while travelling and provide a few hints and tips regarding how to stop them ruining your precious time away.
An issue which can either get your trip off to a bad start or bring it to a frustrating conclusion, cancelled flights are sadly part and parcel of travel for many people. However, it is important for travellers to understand what they can do when affected by such problems. As Flightright.com's page on flight cancellation issues outlines, passengers have clear rights on complaints concerning ticket refunds or replacement flights. They may even be eligible for compensation depending on when an airline informed them of the problem.
But what happens if you managed to catch your flights but your suitcase didn't? Lost or delayed luggage is another issue which can prove to be hugely stressful but, again, travellers can rest assured that they have rights on the matter. Citizens Advice outlines how holidaymakers have a legal right to claim compensation if checked-in luggage is damaged, lost or delayed. The organisation advises that airlines may provide some support to ensure you have access to bare essentials, while they may be able to cover transport costs if you need to collect a case yourself.
You often need a range of different documentation for your travels, with your passport being absolutely vital. Sadly, however, situations can arise when the document could be lost, stolen or damaged. Never fear though, as, in such an event, you may be able to apply for an emergency travel document. This will allow you to travel to a destination through a maximum of five countries and will include details of your travel plans.
It can be hard to take when you've spent a lot of money on a luxury break but, sadly, holiday illnesses are not uncommon. If you are concerned about falling ill, travel insurance provider ERV suggests taking some basic medical items like painkillers and anti-bacterial wipes with you. The company also urges anyone who falls ill to seek medical help and speak to the resort to see if they have an on-site doctor or expert. If your break is completely ruined by such issues and the illness has a lasting impact, there may even be scope to make a legal claim regarding your experiences.
Travelling abroad can undoubtedly be a huge amount of fun but problems like those outlined above can and do happen. With this in mind, being prepared for such issues can be very useful and may even mean you are still able to get the most from your holiday despite the difficulties you've been through!


When two Toowoomba mates shared their prostate cancer diagnoses over a bottle of red in 2010, they decided to try and make it easier for other blokes to talk about men's health issues. Since then, It's a Bloke Thing lunch has turned into the largest daytime fundraising event in Australia.
Toowoomba-based businessmen and foundation members Gary Gardner, John Wagner, Mark Crampton and John Fitzgibbons wear Akubras, Drizabones and boxer shorts to the Luncheon, held in August annually.
Funds raised from IABT support prostate cancer research, including supporting the Queensland University of Technology's Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource team at the Translational Research Institute (TRI) in Brisbane.
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In late January, Paul Weller will release a career-spanning retrospective entitled Hit Parade. The four-disc box set will include highlights from his days fronting The Jam and The Style Council as well as his solo work. There will also be a single disc, best of the box release featuring 23 tracks from Hit Parade.


We're finding inspiration for this festive season everywhere and of course on our favourite social media platform as well! This relatively new Instagram account sure puts us in the festive and feasting mood! You can also find Ashley's recipes and festive inspiration over at Gather and Feast.


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Huawei Nova 4 officially announced, with 48MP rear-camera
Huawei has officially announced the Nova 4 smartphone with a 48MP rear-camera and 28MP in-display selfie camera. This is similar to what Samsung announced last week, the Galaxy A8s. While both smartphones has a hole cut-out to accommodate the cameral, it's quiet noticeable that the Nova 4 has a smaller hole than the Galaxy A8s.
Official Huawei Nova 4 with 48MP Camera
As mentioned, the Nova 4 sports a 48MP main camera composed of a 16MP f/2.2 ultra-wide angle shooter and a 2MP f/2.4 depth sensor. The selfie camera on the other hand is a 28MP f/2.4 shooter.
Official Huawei Nova 4
Under the hood, the Nova 4 is loaded with Kirin 970 processor which is an older version of the processor of the previously announced Honor View 20. Other specs of the Nova 4 include a 6.4-inch 2310 x 1080 display, 8GB of RAM, 128GB storage, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, and a 3,750 mAh battery capable of fast charging over USB-C.
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Children are just as likely to get infected with the new coronavirus as adults, one of the most detailed studies yet published on the spread of the virus has revealed.
The analysis, published in peer-reviewed journal, Nature, is based on data from Shenzhen, China, and is said to provide a partial answer to one of the most pressing questions surrounding the outbreak: the role of children.
Previous studies have suggested that kids were far less likely to develop severe symptoms when infected by the coronavirus, when compared with other age groups.
But it was not clear if it was because they weren't getting infected or if they were fighting off the infection more effectively than others, the journal noted.
"Kids are just as likely to get infected and they're not getting sick," says Justin Lessler, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
He co-led the study with Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Qifang Bi, and epidemiologists Ting Ma, at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen; and Tiejian Feng, of the Shenzhen Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
They posted the analysis to the medRxiv preprint server on March 4, 2020.
The study is unique in that it looked at not only people who were infected with the virus, but also the large numbers of their close contacts, some of whom were infected and many who were not.
The researchers followed 391 people who were diagnosed based on their symptoms, and 1,286 of their close contacts to see whether they tested positive for the virus even if they didn't show symptoms.
Overall, the team found that children under 10 who were potentially exposed to the virus were just as likely to become infected as other age groups, with about seven and eight percent of contacts of known cases later testing positive.
They also found that people who lived in the same household as someone infected with the virus — and came into close contact with them — were about six times more likely to get infected, when compared with people who made contact with an infected person in other settings.
"This may be the first clear evidence that children are as susceptible as adults to SARS-CoV-2 infection," says Ben Cowling, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong.
He, however, wondered if the fact that outbreaks have not been observed in schools could be down to the fact that children's symptoms are mild.
Lessler says it's still not clear whether children are important in transmitting the virus, as they are with influenza, where children routinely develop symptoms and are common hubs in chains of transmission.
"That's one of the current critical remaining questions and we're trying to figure out how to answer," he says. "I have a seven-month-old and a six-year-old and I cannot imagine that if they have any virus at all, they are not getting it on somebody."
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Validation study of health administrative data algorithms to identify individuals experiencing homelessness and estimate population prevalence of homelessness in Ontario, Canada
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6577-5067Lucie Richard1,
Stephen W Hwang2,
Cheryl Forchuk3,
Rosane Nisenbaum2,4,
Kristin Clemens5,
Kathryn Wiens4,
Richard Booth3,
Mahmoud Azimaee6,
Salimah Z Shariff1
1 ICES Western, London, Ontario, Canada
2 St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
4 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
6 ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence to Lucie Richard; lucie.richard{at}ices.on.ca
Objectives To validate case ascertainment algorithms for identifying individuals experiencing homelessness in health administrative databases between 2007 and 2014; and to estimate homelessness prevalence trends in Ontario, Canada, between 2007 and 2016.
Design A population-based retrospective validation study.
Setting Ontario, Canada, from 2007 to 2014 (validation) and 2007 to 2016 (estimation).
Participants Our reference standard was the known housing status of a longitudinal cohort of housed (n=137 200) and homeless or vulnerably housed (n=686) individuals. Two reference standard definitions of homelessness were adopted: the housing episode and the annual housing experience (any homelessness within a calendar year).
Main outcome measures Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and positive likelihood ratios of 30 case ascertainment algorithms for detecting homelessness using up to eight health service databases.
Results Sensitivity estimates ranged from 10.8% to 28.9% (housing episode definition) and 18.5% to 35.6% (annual housing experience definition). Specificities exceeded 99% and positive likelihood ratios were high using both definitions. The most optimal algorithm estimates that 59 974 (95% CI 55 231 to 65 208) Ontarians (0.53% of the adult population) experienced homelessness in 2016, a 67.3% increase from 2007.
Conclusions In Ontario, case ascertainment algorithms for identifying homelessness had low sensitivity but very high specificity and positive likelihood ratio. The use of health administrative databases may offer opportunities to track individuals experiencing homelessness over time and inform efforts to improve housing and health status in this vulnerable population.
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030221
Strengths and limitations of this study
This study validated health administrative codes used in Canadian health databases against a longitudinally collected representative sample of individuals with known housing status.
Health administrative data for certain subgroups without Ontario health coverage (eg, First Nations on reserves, individuals newly arrived to Ontario) were unavailable.
Our general population sample was assumed housed for the entirety of their observation period. It is possible despite our screening efforts that certain individuals experienced homelessness episodes during their participation in this study.
Individuals experiencing homelessness commonly face physical and mental health challenges, increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare usage.1 2 However, surveillance of this population has proven challenging,3–8 with most efforts to date primarily focused on enumerating homeless people at a given point in time.8 9 In Canada, the most recent such effort estimates 235 000 individuals, or 0.67% of the population, experienced homelessness in 2016.10 While such ecological measures are of some value for service planning, they have been criticised as inaccurate and unrepresentative. Cross-sectional counts taken at select dates may not reflect the homeless population year-round,3–5 8 are likely to miss certain types of vulnerably housed individuals (for instance, those temporarily or transitionally housed)3–5 8 and are resource and time consuming.11 12 Further, these measures do not permit follow-up over time or the evaluation of targeted strategies,13 14 including Canada's recently announced National Housing Strategy.15
In the absence of concerted surveillance, nations like Canada that provide government-funded universal healthcare may offer an alternate avenue to measure and track individuals experiencing homelessness. In particular, several administrative databases such as those for hospital services are standardised nationwide, allowing for population-level tracking of health and healthcare delivery of Canadians.16 Health administrative data are already widely used in Canada for population surveillance of health conditions such as diabetes, asthma and ischaemic heart disease,17–21 permitting counts of the population at any point in time as well as tracking changes in group demographics, health status, healthcare trajectories and gaps in care.22–24 Currently, the utility of these data in tracking social determinants of health, such as homelessness, is less well understood. Moreover, although health administrative data provide a convenient and low-cost option for population surveillance, they are prone to errors in misclassification.25 Validation studies are thus necessary to evaluate the accuracy of case ascertainment algorithms.26–28
The aims of this study were to (A) develop and validate case ascertainment algorithms to identify individuals experiencing homelessness in health administrative databases in Ontario, Canada; and (B) estimate annual population prevalence of homelessness in Ontario over a 10-year period using the best performing algorithm.
Study design and participants
We validated 30 case ascertainment algorithms to detect homelessness using up to eight health administrative databases in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. All databases were linked using unique encoded identifiers and analysed at ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences),29 a not-for-profit research institute. ICES is a prescribed entity under section 45 of Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act, which authorises ICES to collect personal health information, without consent, for the purpose of analysis or compiling statistical information with respect to the management of, evaluation or monitoring of, the allocation of resources to or planning for all or part of the health system.
Due to the coded nature of ICES data, this research was conducted without patient involvement. Patients were not involved in the development of the research question, invited to comment on the study design, consulted to interpret the results and were not invited to contribute to the writing or editing of this document for readability or accuracy.
While data sharing agreements prohibit ICES from making the data set publicly available, access to the data may be granted to those who meet prespecified criteria for confidential access, available at www.ices.on.ca/DAS. The full data set creation plan and underlying analytic code detailing all analysis procedures are available from the authors on request, understanding that computer programs rely on coding templates or macros unique to ICES, which may be either inaccessible or require modification.
Our validation cohort included adults (18 years or older) eligible for Ontario health coverage who participated in the Health and Housing in Transition study (the 'HHiT sample').30 The HHiT study was conducted between 2009 and 2014 in three Canadian cities (Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver) and aimed to assess the impact of housing transitions on health. Participants were randomly selected at shelters, meal programmes, community health centres, drop-in centres, rooming houses, and single-room occupancy hotels and interviewed once per year until the end of the study or until the individual withdrew. Collected participant data from the two Ontario cities (Toronto and Ottawa) were organised into consecutive self-reported housing episodes, ranging from an earliest date of 31 January 2007 to a latest date of 14 March 2014.
Due to the low prevalence (<5%) of exclusively housed individuals in this cohort, an additional group of adults presumed housed (the 'general population sample') was randomly selected from the ICES Registered Persons Database (RPDB), which includes all individuals eligible for Ontario health coverage. A similar approach was used in previous validation studies.31 32 To ensure our general population sample had a high likelihood of being housed, we deemed individuals eligible if they were not part of the HHiT study, resided in Toronto or Ottawa throughout the study period and did not reside in a postal code associated with shelter services. We randomly selected 200 individuals for each HHiT participant to approximate the nearest available Canadian homelessness prevalence estimate.33
The period over which housing status is assessed substantially impacts any analysis of agreement between the reference standard and case ascertainment algorithms. Thus, we a priori selected two reference standard definitions (units of analysis) based on their expected utility: (A) the housing episode and (B) the annual housing experience. Within the HHiT cohort, housing episodes were categorised as housed or homeless based on pre-established criteria.34 Responses about housing status were classified into one of 25 categories, and then resolved into housed, institution and homeless categories. 'Institution' episodes (which include situations like hospitalisation or prison) were then resolved into either housed or homeless categories based on the preceding and subsequent housing episodes: episodes flanked by any homelessness were generally also classified as homeless, as the individual was not stably housed either at the time of entry or exit (or both) from the institution. The general population sample was assumed housed for the entirety of their observation period. For the annual housing experience definition, individuals were categorised as homeless if a homeless episode occurred during the calendar year.
Case ascertainment algorithms and data sources
Homeless indicators were identified by searching the ICES data dictionary35 for data elements indicative of housing status (search terms included: 'homeless', 'shelter', 'housing', 'residence', 'transient') (online supplementary table 1). We assessed housing status indicators present in: the Discharge Abstract Database, the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System, the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System, the Home Care Database, the Resident Assessment Instrument Contact Assessment Database, the National Rehabilitation Reporting System and the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry. The first three sources report hospital encounters and are tracked by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)13; for brevity these are hereafter referred to as 'CIHI databases'.
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Postal codes are also often recorded in the above records; therefore, we additionally assessed postal codes where present and in the ICES PSTLYEAR database (which provides a yearly postal code for individuals with Ontario health coverage) against Toronto and Ottawa-based postal codes identifying shelter services or hospitals (which are sometimes erroneously coded instead of shelters).36 Postal codes which included residential addresses, as determined through a Geographic Information System, were not used to avoid misclassifying housed individuals as homeless.
We tested 30 case ascertainment algorithms (described in online supplementary table 2) which varied by: (1) databases included (all vs CIHI only); (2) inclusion or exclusion of postal code indicators (none, in health service databases or in PSTLYEAR); and (3) extension of time intervals (ranging from 0 to ±180 days) before and after the reference period. The practice of extending time intervals is known to enhance the sensitivity of case ascertainment algorithms.37 38 Reference housing episodes or calendar years without overlapping healthcare encounters were coded as test negative ('housed') by default, to reflect the administrative data's inability to identify homelessness for such reference periods.
Other data sources used to describe the cohort (all data sources are further described in online supplementary table 3) included the ICES RPDB, Ontario Health Insurance Physicians claims database, the Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada Permanent Resident Database and several ICES-derived population surveillance data sets, including: the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,39 Ontario Diabetes Dataset,40 congestive heart failure41 and Ontario HIV42 derived cohorts.
We provided cohort demographics, comorbidities and recent health services usage (variables defined in online supplementary table 4). Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value and positive likelihood ratio (LR+) were calculated for all algorithms (formulae in online supplementary table 5). 95% CIs were calculated using the Wilson score method.43 For each reference standard, we deemed the algorithm with maximised sensitivity, specificity and PPV to be optimal, while also considering its scalability (ie, applicability of the algorithm outside Ontario).
We then applied the optimal annual housing experience algorithm to identify Ontarians experiencing homelessness in each of the 2007–2016 calendar years, further describing those identified during 2016. Finally, we estimated population prevalence of homelessness between 2007 and 2016, correcting for sensitivity by dividing the number of identified homeless by the algorithm's sensitivity. Prevalence rates were calculated by dividing estimated population prevalence by the total adult Ontario population for each year. A Poisson regression model was used to estimate the annual change in prevalence over time.
All analyses were conducted using SAS V.9.4.44
We identified 686 eligible HHiT participants (6948 housing episodes, 3443 of which were homeless) and randomly selected a further 137 200 individuals from the RPDB (137 200 housing episodes) to generate a total cohort of 137 886 individuals contributing 144 148 housing episodes (figure 1). HHiT participants were followed for, on average, 64 months, and experienced homelessness for, on average, 40.4% of their overall participation period, with a median homeless episode of 75 days (IQR: 29–181 days) (table 1). Individuals in the general population sample were followed for an average of 52 months. We found substantial differences between the HHiT and general population samples, with HHiT participants being younger, more likely male, less likely to have recently immigrated and having more chronic health conditions and recent healthcare use.
Cohort build. HHiT, Health and Housing in Transition study.
Cohort characteristics at the start of a randomly selected housing episode, by source
Validation results
Algorithm sensitivities when identifying a homeless housing episode (among 144 148 total episodes) ranged from 10.8% to 28.9%, with specificities exceeding 99% (table 2). Extending time intervals or including postal code indicators in health service databases increased sensitivity, while marginally decreasing specificity. The use of all databases, as opposed to only CIHI databases, resulted in negligible gains in sensitivity. LR+ were all in excess of 10, indicating a substantial increase in the likelihood of homelessness following a positive test.45 Based on these findings, we chose any CIHI database indicator +/−45 days as the optimal algorithm based on its scalability and maximised sensitivity, specificity and PPV. More false positives (n=595) using this algorithm came from the HHiT sample (n=397, or 66.7% of false positives) than the general population sample (n=238) (online supplementary table 6A). Absence of a healthcare encounter during the reference period accounted for 64.5% (n=1825) of false negatives.
Accuracy of case ascertainment algorithms in identifying individuals experiencing homelessness
Algorithm sensitivities when identifying homeless annual housing experiences (n=491 213 total calendar years) ranged from 18.5% to 35.6%, with specificities at 99.9% (table 2). LR+ were all in excess of 200, indicating a very substantial increase in the probability of homelessness following a positive test.45 Sensitivity increased without impacting specificity when time windows were extended or when postal code indicators during healthcare encounters or in PSTLYEAR were included. The use of all databases, as opposed to solely CIHI databases, resulted in negligible gains in sensitivity.
The algorithm that maximised validation statistics was any CIHI database indicator +/−15 days or a PSTLYEAR postal code. Most false positives (n=365) using this algorithm were sourced from the general population sample (n=250; 68.5% of false positives overall) (online supplementary table 6B). Absence of a health encounter within the reference period accounted for 62.7% (or 997) of false negatives. However, because this algorithm requires a comprehensive database of postal codes uniquely identifying shelters or hospitals to be scaled, we deemed this algorithm suboptimal and therefore opted to use any CIHI database indicator +/−15 days for generating provincial estimates.
Estimates of homelessness
Applying the optimal annual housing experience algorithm, we identified 11 731 Ontarians experiencing homelessness during 2016 (table 3). Flagged individuals were predominantly male (70%) and between the ages of 25 and 65. One in 10 were recent immigrants, about one-third resided in Metropolitan Toronto, and a large proportion recently received mental or substance use-related healthcare (25.7% for psychotic disorders; 54.8% for non-psychotic disorders and 41.9% for substance use disorders). Over 10 years, we identified a total of 54 873 adults who experienced homelessness, of which 18 217 (33.2%) were detected in more than 1 year (online supplementary table 6C).
Characteristics of individuals identified as homeless in 2016 using the optimal annual housing experience algorithm (any CIHI indicator +/−15 days)
As specificity for our chosen algorithm is near 100%, we corrected for sensitivity by dividing our identified cohort count by sensitivity to estimate a total 2016 homeless population of 59 974 (95% CI 55 231 to 65 208) Ontarians, or 0.53% of the adult Ontario population (figure 2). Between 2007 and 2016, the number and rate of individuals experiencing homelessness increased by 67.3% and 48.1%, respectively, with an annual percentage increase of 4.4% in the estimated rate of homelessness (95% CI 4.2% to 4.7%).
Estimated number of individuals and population prevalence (per 100 adults) experiencing homelessness in Ontario from 2007 to 2016 using the optimal annual housing experience case ascertainment algorithm (any CIHI indicator +/−15 days), with 95% CIs, correcting for sensitivity. Annual percentage change with CI was calculated using a Poisson regression. CIHI, Canadian Institute for Health Information.
We validated health administrative database algorithms for homelessness against the known housing status of individuals in a longitudinally collected representative sample at risk for homelessness and a random sample of housed individuals in Ontario, Canada. We tested our algorithms' ability to identify individuals during an experience of homelessness and during a year in which homelessness occurred, as either definition could be used for different purposes (research and surveillance, respectively). In both cases, algorithms exhibited low sensitivity but excellent specificities and LR+.
The low sensitivity of the algorithms can be partially explained by the large proportion of reference periods without a healthcare encounter, which increased false negatives by default. This reaffirms the consensus that homelessness is ephemeral for many individuals, making it difficult to capture in health administrative data.1 3 5 Although homeless individuals are known to access acute care services at a much higher rate than the general population,1 2 a substantial subgroup in our homeless cohort did not access hospital-based healthcare services during specific housing periods, and therefore could not be identified as such using the algorithms. We observed that homeless individuals more frequently accessed care through outpatient physician clinics, which are captured through fee-for-service billings. This data holding (the Ontario Health Insurance Plan) currently lacks housing status information and therefore could not be included in our validation.
Our population prevalence estimates suggest substantial increases in homelessness between 2007 and 2016, both in absolute and relative terms. Case sensitivity did not noticeably change over time in our validation cohort (less than a 4% variation throughout, with no trend), but we cannot know for certain whether case sensitivity increased across Ontario during this period, partially or fully accounting for the observed increase. However, a recent presentation by Employment and Social Development Canada indicates that, among Canadian communities who conducted point in time counts in 2016 and 2018, homelessness increased by 14%46; the estimates generated by the 2013 and 2016 State of Homelessness in Canada reports indicate similar increases.10 33 These results suggest that our observed increase may reflect a true increase in the prevalence of homelessness in Ontario.
No Ontario-specific statistics exist against which to directly compare our most recent population prevalence estimate47; however, if we assume Canadian homelessness as recently reported10 is proportionally distributed among the 13 Canadian provinces and territories population (Ontario accounted for 38.3% of Canada's population in 2016),48 approximately 90 000 homeless individuals would be attributable to Ontario in 2016. This prevalence estimate is greater than the 2016 estimate concluded in this study (of approximately 60 000), but individuals identified as homeless in our algorithm share similar demographics with individuals in that report: approximately 25% in both sources are aged 50 and older; 16%–19% are youth; and roughly 30% are women.10 Furthermore, one in three individuals were identified in multiple years, similar to the proportion of individuals using shelters in multiple years reported recently.49 Therefore, the gap between methodologies does not appear to reflect a bias in the types of individuals identified in these two sources.
This is the first study to validate health administrative data algorithms against a reference standard with the intended purpose of population surveillance. Most prior work50–57 identified homelessness using homeless indicators or shelter addresses given during healthcare encounters, assuming these data represented true housing status. Recently, Vickery et al validated addresses indicative of homelessness during healthcare encounters against self-reported housing status in a sample of Medicaid recipients, finding sensitivities between 30% and 76% and specificities between 79% and 97%.58 However, this study required the use of location and time-specific shelter address registries, making the methodology challenging to scale or generalise. Moreover, this study's results refer to the population using healthcare (rather than the population overall) and assumed self-reported housing status did not vary over the nearly 4-year study period. Our study recognised changes in housing status and deliberately included individuals who may not have used healthcare, in order to estimate the algorithm's ability to count the complete homeless population.
We readily acknowledge some limitations to this validation. First, because it was conducted in a universal, single-payer healthcare system, this validation's applicability is limited to jurisdictions with similar settings who collect similar types of standardised information. Even so, before implementation policymakers should undertake a validation similar to that described here to determine how data sources available to them perform. However, among such jurisdictions this methodology can permit inexpensive, population-level research and surveillance.
Second, as this validation relied on health administrative data with housing indicators, algorithm sensitivity was significantly reduced due to the number of individuals who did not access hospital-based healthcare services during their housing period and were thus automatically considered housed. Other jurisdictions having access to housing status variables in standardised health services data and the ability to link non-health administrative data containing housing variables (such as in social services, law enforcement or shelter service data) may realise improved algorithm performance through increased opportunities for encounters during a homeless episode.
Third, we could only validate homelessness among adults eligible for Ontario healthcare coverage, which although near complete (>99%) does not include recent arrivals to Ontario, First Nations on reserves, Inuit, certain refugee claimant groups, inmates in federal penitentiaries, eligible veterans and serving members of the Canadian Forces. Since veterans and First Nations, Metis and Inuit individuals are believed to be over-represented among homeless people,10 33 49 59 our algorithms almost certainly underestimate homelessness in these populations, which (in conjunction with the lack of youth in the count) may account for much of the gap between our population estimate and the estimate loosely calculated from the State of Homelessness in Canada 2016.10 However, this gap is the result of linkage through Ontario-specific identifiers rather than an inherent limitation of the indicators: future pan-Canadian homelessness surveillance and research can include these populations by accessing these indicators through CIHI.
Fourth, we were forced to assume our general population sample was housed during the entirety of their assigned housing period. It is possible, despite our screening efforts, that some individuals experienced homelessness during their participation in this study. On review of the false positives, we identified 238 individuals from the general population sample (0.17% of that sample) who might have thus been misclassified as housed when they were, in fact, homeless. We deemed misclassifying up to a few hundred individuals from a pool of over 140 000 to be preferable to excluding or recoding such individuals on the basis of the same administrative data we are attempting to validate. Moreover, given the low prevalence of homelessness in the population, the impact of such individuals should be negligible to our overall findings.
Despite the recent Canadian federal government commitment of $2.2 billion over 10 years to tackle homelessness,60 current costs associated with enumeration11 12 and programme evaluation are high, necessarily reducing funding for programme implementation. Overall, our algorithms present, despite their low sensitivity, important potential cost-saving opportunities as a homelessness enumeration and surveillance tool. Moreover, these algorithms can track individuals over time and be used to evaluate efforts to improve housing and health status, similar to applications from other previous validation work for population surveillance.20–25 Introduction of mandatory reporting of homelessness among hospital and non-hospital-based healthcare encounters may result in increased identification of homelessness in Ontario.
We gratefully acknowledge the HHiT team for the use of their data, and Emily Kovacs for compiling postal codes identifying shelter services in Toronto and Ottawa.
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Contributors LR conceived the study, participated in the study coordination, study design, acquisition of data and interpretation of results, performed the analysis and drafted the manuscript. SZS conceived the study, participated in the study design, interpretation of study results and provided feedback on the manuscript. SWH, RN and RB participated in the study design, acquisition of data, and interpretation of study results and provided feedback on the manuscript. CF, KC, MA and KW contributed to the study design, interpretation of study results and provided feedback on the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding This study was supported by an Ontario Trillium Foundation–Local Poverty Reduction Fund grant (held by CF, RB and SZS), an Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario Academic Health Science Centre Alternate Funding Innovation Fund grant (held by KC and SZS) and two Canadian Institutes of Health Research grants, CIHR MOP-86765 and HOA-80066 (held by SWH and RN). This study was conducted at the ICES Western Site, which receives core funding from the Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario (AMOSO), the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, and the Lawson Health Research Institute. ICES is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Information in the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Permanent Resident Dataset was provided by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Disclaimer The opinions, results and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent of the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES or the funding agencies is intended or should be inferred. Parts of this material are based on data and/or information compiled and provided by CIHI. However, the analyses, conclusions, opinions and statements expressed in the material are those of the author(s), and not necessarily those of CIHI.
Competing interests KC reports grants from AstraZeneca, and attendance to a Merck conference, occurring outside the submitted work. All other authors have no competing interest to declare.
Ethics approval This study was approved by the St Michael's Hospital Research Ethics Board, and follows the STARD guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies.
Data availability statement Data are available upon reasonable request.
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Q: Combining data from csv files in subdirectories with Python I have a script that walks through subdirectories and combines all data from .csv files into one big .csv.  But I'd like to modify it to create a separate combined .csv for each subdirectory (and ideally name it after the subdirectory).  Nothing that I've tried so far seems to be able to do this.  What am I missing?  My original script is below.
datax = []
dirx = 'path/to/folder'
for dirs, subdirs, files in os.walk(dirx):
    for f in files:
        if f.endswith('.csv'):
            data2 = pd.read_csv(os.path.join(dirs, f), sep=' ', header=None, names=column_names)
            datax.append(data2)
frame = pd.concat(datax)
frame.to_csv('alldata.csv', sep=',', index=False)

If I move the frame = line into the os.walk loop it says there is nothing to concatenate.

A: I found a solution but it might not be the prettiest one:
# Your path
dirx = path

# Dictionnary to put all your subdirs concatenates
dict_data = {}

for dirs, subdirs, files in os.walk(path):

    # First check if your subdirs is not empty
    if subdirs:

        # For every sudirs you have
        for i in subdirs:

            # I run a for loop inside of it
            for dirs2, subdirs2, files2 in os.walk(path + "\\"+ i):

                # I then instantiate a list
                list_data = []
                for j in files2:

                    # I append the data of your different files in this subdir to this list
                    data = pd.read_csv(path + "\\" + i + "\\" + j, sep=' ', header=None, names=column_names)

                    list_data.append(data)

                # Concatenate and store it in the dictionnary, so you have the data compartimented
                dict_data[i] = pd.concat(list_data)

dict_data[frame].to_csv('the/data/from/subdir/wanted', sep=',', index=False)

It should give you results like this (testi, testa being my subdirs):

I hope this can help you!

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by Conor McCaffrey October 7, 20163:56 pm August 1, 2017
Screen savers: Interview with house crew and YouTube aces Eton Messy
Unless you've been clubbing in the UK or you've been to dance festivals in England, you probably haven't crossed paths with house crew Eton Messy in the flesh — but there's every chance you've been one of the near 90 million people who've watched a video on their YouTube channel.
The Bristol-based collective are promoters, a label and a travelling DJ crew that's branched out from their beginnings in 2011 as a YouTube channel set up by student Adam Engelfield to curate deep house and garage playlists to share with his pals and stick on at parties.
His mates Ed Byass and Charlie Wedd eventually got involved and it's become one of these accidental social media success stories — taking the lads beyond YouTube and on to club tours and showcases at European festivals.
They've now got their own signings on the channel, as well as Eton Messy Sessions. The group have also just released the compilation In:Season, which puts rising stars up against scene heavyweights like Sonny Fodera, Gorgon City, Dusky and Belfast duo Bicep.
They're also about to go on a European tour that kicks off in Belfast tomorrow (Saturday) at Thompson's Garage.
We caught up with the guys this week to get the lowdown on the tour and their beginnings — thinking outside the dubstep box.
It's been five years since the channel launched, at which point did you think you had something a lot bigger than a few lads sharing tracks?
Five years… really? well thats flown by!
I think when we started doing our events outside of Bristol it started to kick in that we had something a little more than a giggle on our hands. But to be fair we have always just cracked on so we never took a step back and had a moment as such.
Were you all listening to house, garage and R&B from an early age? What were your favourite albums or mixes when you were kids?
No we weren't we were all influenced by house, garage and R&B because it's always been present in the charts and stuff through our lifetimes. You may laugh at some of these but albums that stood out for us were Pendulum Hold Your Colour, The Streets' Original Pirate Material, Eels' Beautiful Freak and Craig David's Born To Do It.
You would've been pretty young during the first wave of UK garage. In the beginning was the Eton Messy sound a nod to nostalgia?
Charlie: I remember one of my mates came home from school one day and tried forcing garage onto me. Ill be honest i couldn't stand it! But then the Streets Album popped up and seemed to do some damage.
Not sure if any of us saw Eton Messy as a form of nostalgia though, EM was born through people thinking outside the box when dubstep was quite prominent so it probably had a little bit more to do with that. But it's pretty clear that garage was a strong influencer too.
Has the curation changed any since the early days? I guess to begin with you would've been primarily trawling for tracks but now you must get a deluge of releases and cold calls.
There is definitely a helping hand these days with people pitching releases to us but you can't beat a good old fashioned hunt for music! After all you may not be receiving the most current or cutting edge music so it's always good to keep sniffing around outside of label releases. We also run a record label so need to be checking out unsigned music all the time.
With In:Season just released, is the idea to release regular compilations?
It all depends on what we can handle as the team isn't that big! We definitely want to try and get a compilation out every year though.
With constantly updating YouTube, Soundcloud mixes and streamed DJ sets, a mix CD almost seems old school these days. Is there a sense that even though you've made your name as a YouTube channel it's good to have a physical artefact?
Think you nailed it there. There is still a market out there for the traditional format and it's been great to have our compilations out there in that space too. You also have to think of people that may have been to one of our nights on an off chance and see your album on iTunes or Spotify and think, 'Oooh I'll grab that!'
You've said before that it's very important to not take yourselves too seriously, but what's the main concept behind Eton Messy, or is does this change as you move forward?
We don't try to stick to any concept like you said we just try not to take ourselves too seriously.
What was it like catching Craig David at Pacha this summer? Would you guys have been big fans of his first time around?
Sadly we weren't involved in that. Charlie just went along to support the Blonde boys. They have been playing pacha all season and said it was worth checking out. It was great seeing Craig in action too. Yeah we were all fans of his first time round!
You've said before that you'd like to start releasing music from bands, is that any closer to being realised?
Not yet, annoyingly! Still is a plan we would love to get to though.
You've played at loads of festivals over the last few years, would you ever consider starting your own festival?
It has crossed our minds in the past but lets not run before we can walk.
What's your opinion on Fabric closing? Do you think it will take a massive club like Fabric to close, to highlight the hundreds, thousands of smaller clubs closing?
It's a massive shame, a classic example of councils with other plans for an area coming into play. The response, although upsetting has been amazing though. Everyone has reacted in a really positive way and hopefully should lead to things like this not happening again or at least a reduction in the cases. We should be embarrassed though — because literally days after Berlin showed everyone how things should be done by classing the Berghain as a "high culture club".
Do these closures make you worry about the culture moving forward?
No not really, as horrible as it is to say as old clubs close new clubs open. Its just a shame about the turnover. This turnover cycle needs to be reduced.
I was at the Eton Messy parties at Rise Festival in Les Deux Alpes last year and they were a bit, let's say, rowdier than you'd expect from the channel. What can the crowd expect at the Belfast show?
I hope in a good way!? For the club events the music always tends to be a little bit more up beat from parts of the channel. so expect some good old club music with some channel favourites and some new bits and bobs for safe measure.
Do you have any other releases you'd like to fill us in with, or any other artists you've discovered recently?
That would be telling! But the next six months is going to be jam packed with good music. We have some great things in the pipeline and have just recently signed a track from an act that was one of the reasons we started DJing so its going to be great to get that out in the open…
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Welcome to the new Steve Ashdown photography site. This is the first time I have included a blog in the site and I aim to keep it up to date with news about what work I am doing as well as anything else that I want the world to know. I aim to either keep it updated or delete it. I feel an unkept blog is worse than no blog so if it ever gets over 6 months without an update it is time to go.
As my photography develops from being part of my business to being most of my business (that's the aim at least) things should become increasingly active around here. For now though there is a small portfolio of the work I feel is most appropriate and some information to give you a feel of who I am. Expect more soon.


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News Flash! Ice Out Declared
by CatchpennyCreative March 31, 2020 February 8, 2021 1 Comment
Ice out was declared at 10:30 April 3rd. The last ice disappeared from Holden Shore as the wind cranked up overnight so the small chunks around yesterday changed back to the liquid form. Nancy Gilbert was the closest to the time and date. Nice guessing!
It is a rather nasty day so even though the lake is free of ice, the wind and rain will keep most off the lake. 6 Ring Billed Gulls were seen headed toward the lake, though, but they can't stay indoors…..
What follows is the previous post that was published on March 31st.
Some shores are free of ice, others aren't. There are huge ice floes wandering around. At the same time, it isn't going to be long. Temperatures aren't supposed to be below freezing except for briefly and the days are going to be in the upper 40's or low 50's. There is a video of the ice situation at the bottom of this page.
In the afternoon, along Heath Shore, there was an area free of ice and then ice going out toward Bass Island.
At Governor's Rock, ice had been pushed by the wind and the weak ice piled up on the rock.
A painted turtle was out on this sunny day in a swampy area and is a sure sign that spring is here.
At around 3:00 PM there were still large areas of ice to the south of Stamp Act.
Likewise, there were areas of ice to the east of Stamp Act and a section of ice going to the north shore. The area around the State Park was free of ice.
Blobs of ice were around Mink and extending toward Turtle.
Burmmitt Island was free of ice although there is ice along its shores and there was ice going all the way down to Warren Sands.
Previous Entry Ice Out Part 3 March 28 & 29 Updated with video link
Next Entry An Unfrozen Lake
Fred Burgher says:
Thank you Peter for these extraordinary views of our lake in Winter and now Spring These great shots and videos would in the past only be possible thru considerable expense and effort.
Fred Burgher


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Vincent de Moor (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɪnsɛnt də ˈmoːr]; born 5 December 1973, Delft, Netherlands) is a Dutch trance artist. He is most notable for his work with the record producer Ferry Corsten under the working title, "Veracocha," and for his 2001 single, "Fly Away".
De Moor first recorded in 1993 as Fix To Fax. Tracks released under this alias included "Enjoy Yourself", "Do U Feel It", "Pick It Up" and "Take Control". Other early releases include "Het Vliegende Kunstgebit" as Gmoork, "Chinese Juice" and "Exotic Mind" as Outline, and "Voice In The Dark", "Frame Of Pleasure" and "Brazilia Carnavelas" as Sidewalk.
His breakthrough track, using his own name, was "Flowtation". The track was first released in 1996, and reached peaked in the UK Singles Chart at #54 in August 1997. Several versions of this track were available, including a 2002 remix with vocals. In 1998, De Moor collaborated with Ernst Bijlsma to release "Don't Hurt Me" (as Cache) and, using his own name, released the track "Orion City" and a debut album of the same name. He also found time to release tracks including "Darwin's Voyage", "Magnetic" and "Domino Runner" using his VdM moniker.
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Carte blanche (French for blank or white card) may refer to:
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Carte Blanche may also refer to:
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Carte Blanche (Phat Kat album), 2007
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"Carte Blanche" (group), a French electronic music group with DJ Mehdi and Riton
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Carte Blanche, a 1965 painting by René Magritte
Carte Blanche (TV series), an investigative journalism show produced by Combined Artists and aired on M-Net
Yvette Carte-Blanche, a fictional character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
Carta Blanca, a Mexican beer
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Carte Blanche is the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, based in Bergen in western Norway. Since August 2008 the artistic and general director of the company is Bruno Heynderickx from Belgium. Choreographers who have recently worked with Carte Blanche include Ina Christel Johannessen, Alan Lucien Øyen, Sharon Eyal (from Batsheva Dance Company), and Rui Horta.
The company produces a minimum of three new choreographic works a year and performs an average of four to six productions every year. While the home base of the company is in Bergen, the company spends lots of time touring elsewhere in Norway (e.g. Oslo Opera House), but also abroad. Some recent international performances include:
"Klokka 3 om ettermiddagen" (3 o'clock in the afternoon) by Ina Christel Johannessen at the "Ice hot – Nordic dance platform" festival in Stockholm, Sweden,
"Corps de Walk" by Sharon Eyal in Turku, Finland, as a part of city's activities as a European Capital of Culture in 2011
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Carte Blanche is the second studio album by American hip hop rapper Phat Kat, released April 3, 2007 on Look Records in the United States. It is the follow-up to his previous album The Undeniable (2004).
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Moor released: 2000
Orion City released: 1998
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February 15, 2010 - Michael Lombardi
DMN: Race is on for Karlos Dansby
QUOTE: "We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement." -- William Howard Taft, "Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers"
Happy Presidents Day to everyone…
A report over the weekend said Cardinals linebacker Karlos Dansby is interested in four teams -- the Giants, 'Skins, Chargers and Dolphins -- who are all good fits for his talent and could use his services within the framework of their defenses. But will all four be able to acquire his rights? Three of the four can be active in pursuing Dansby, and only the Chargers will be limited with their offer based on a $5-million first-year salary and the restrictions placed on the final eight teams. The Chargers can make this work if they want, but they have so many other players to sign that even though Dansby would be a welcome addition, they first have to think about getting wideout Vincent Jackson and tackle Marcus McNeill re-signed. It's difficult to acquire new free agents when you have pending free agents of your own — there's only so much money to go around.
The other three teams will be free to spend whatever they want but will have some form of internal budget. For example, the 'Skins, picking fourth overall, will have to account for that expense in their free-agent planning. In the past, they have always been heavy hitters in free agency -- and I suspect they will be this year as well -- but they never had to spend for the fourth pick overall, which in terms of cash is like signing two heavy-duty free agents. What the 'Skins must prepare for and protect themselves against is the return of a cap, as unrealistic as that might seem today.
The Giants spent a ton of money last year in free agency, and their committed cash expense is high for 2010, so I can see them signing a player like Dansby -- but it will have to be the right deal. My sense of the Giants this free agency period is that they'll shop for bargains along with making deals that fit their budget. Team owner John Mara has complained about player costs, so he would look bad if the Giants were overly aggressive in free agency.
The Dolphins also spent money in free agency last year and, like the Giants, are high in committed cash. But my sense of the Fins is that they'll be active in free agency trying to fix their problems on defense. They signed linebacker Channing Crowder last year to a big deal but all season were looking for inside backer help. What hurts most is when you sign a player to fortify a need, but three months later that help has not been provided. The Dolphins, like the Giants, were too slow on defense, especially inside at linebacker, so it makes perfect sense that they would be chasing the same players.
So who gets Dansby? My money would be on the Giants or Dolphins, but don't rule out a sleeper team like the Patriots, who could use more speed on defense. One thing's for sure when it comes to those three teams -- they all seem to share a passion for the same players, especially on defense.
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East Africa Project: Network Meeting, Symposium and Training Workshop
Julio Ottaviano 26. November 2018
Fighting impunity and ensuring accountability through fostering and facilitating networks, building capacity to enable domestic systems to address international and transnational crimes, holding international symposia, and engaging with the mass media. To hold the sixth round of its "Fighting Impunity in East Africa" project, the Wayamo Foundation returned to where it had all begun…Arusha, Tanzania. Here, in the shadow of …
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Capacity building workshop and Joan Kagezi Memorial Lecture
Julio Ottaviano 12. April 2018
On 13 April, Wayamo Foundation Director Bettina Ambach and Deputy Director Mark Kersten participated in the third annual Joan Kagezi Memorial Lecture on the theme of "Combating International and Transnational Organised Crime: Lessons Learnt and Best Practices". The Wayamo Foundation had the privilege of co-organising the event with its partners in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The event celebrated the life of Joan Kagezi, a senior prosecutor in Uganda's International Crimes Division, who was assassinated in March 2015.
International Justice Symposium : "Networks of Accountability: Justice for International and Transnational Organized Crimes"
Julio Ottaviano 27. February 2018
In February and March of this year, the Wayamo Foundation concluded a series of five key events (two meetings and three activities) in so many days in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of its "Fighting Impunity in East Africa" project, an initiative funded by the German Foreign Ministry. The stated objectives of the Symposium were to discuss the status of international criminal justice, analyse transnational organised crimes, and explore the linkages between the two sets of crimes.
International Symposium in Kigali: "Fighting Impunity in East Africa"
Elise Carreau 21. November 2017
Over a three-day period from 20 to 22 November 2017, Kigali, Rwanda, played host to the latest in the Wayamo Foundation's series of East African international justice conferences aimed at exploring the current state of international criminal justice, its links with transnational organised crime, and national and regional efforts to deal with these crimes. The event was held thanks to the unstinting collaboration of the Rwandan Ministry of Justice and the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office.
East African Judicial Symposium & Judges' Retreat: Arusha, Tanzania, 7-8 August 2017
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On 7 August, Arusha played host to an international symposium at the Mount Meru Hotel, aimed at exploring: judicial independence, integrity and ethics in the fight against international and transnational crime; case studies on the role of the judiciary in addressing human trafficking and corruption; and the relationship between domestic, regional, and international courts in combatting serious crimes.
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Elise Carreau 8. August 2017
As part of the Wayamo Foundation's commitment to spreading knowledge and building capacity among judges in the East African region, the symposium was followed by a one-day retreat on 8 August, attended by fifteen judges from national, regional, and international courts. They shared experiences in tackling transnational organised crime, building effective judiciaries and courts, and protecting the independence of their institutions.
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International Symposium: "Judicial Independence — A Foundation for Combatting International and Transnational Crime"
On 7 August, Arusha played host to an international symposium at the Mount Meru Hotel, aimed at exploring: judicial independence, integrity and ethics in the fight against international and transnational crime; case studies on the role of the judiciary in addressing human trafficking and corruption; and the relationship between domestic, regional, and international courts in combatting serious crimes. The symposium was followed by a one-day retreat on 8 August, attended by fifteen judges from national, regional, and international courts.
7 and 8 June 2017: training of investigators and prosecutors
Elise Carreau 22. June 2017 Judicial Capacity Building, News and Events, News and Events AGJA
As part of the International Symposium organised on 6 June in Arusha, the Wayamo Foundation organised a two-day training for investigators and prosecutors from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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International Symposium: "Fighting Impunity in East Africa – Ensuring accountability for international and transnational organised crimes"
Elise Carreau 5. June 2017
Arusha played host to an international symposium at the Mount Meru Hotel on 6 June 2017. The symposium aimed at exploring the current state of international criminal justice, its links with transnational organised crime, and national and regional efforts to deal with these crimes across East Africa. The event welcomed some 80 experts on international and transnational criminal law, academics, legal practitioners, the media and civil society organisations from across Africa and other parts of the world. As part of the project's launch activities, the Wayamo Foundation facilitated the first network meeting of Directors of Public Prosecution and Heads of Criminal Investigation Departments, as well as a two-day training session for prosecutors and investigators.
6 June 2017: International Symposium in Arusha
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Arusha played host to an international symposium at the Mount Meru Hotel on 6 June 2017. The symposium aimed at exploring the current state of international criminal justice


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