Filter
558
Filtered Results: 558
Text search:
Republic
of
Namibia
Featured
Recommendations
36
New Publications
129
Language
Document type
No document type
319
Studies & Reports
155
Guidelines
34
Manuals
16
Strategic & Response Plan
12
Infographics
8
Fact sheets
6
Situation Updates
5
Training Material
2
Resource Platforms
1
Countries / Regions
Namibia
85
Global
40
Africa
40
Zambia
24
South Africa
21
East and Southern Africa
13
Malawi
12
Congo, Democratic Republic of
12
Botswana
11
Kenya
8
Uganda
8
Zimbabwe
7
Mozambique
7
West and Central Africa
7
Ethiopia
6
Liberia
6
Tanzania
5
India
5
Lesotho
4
Rwanda
4
Senegal
4
Eswatini/ Swaziland
4
Ghana
3
Nigeria
3
Guinea
3
Latin America and the Carribbean
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Southern Africa
3
Angola
3
Chad
3
Sierra Leone
2
Cameroon
2
Philippines
2
Asia
2
South–East Asia Region
2
Mali
2
South Sudan
2
Indonesia
2
North Korea
1
Nepal
1
Benin
1
Gambia
1
Togo
1
Syria
1
Iran
1
Laos
1
Afghanistan
1
Vanuatu
1
Jordan
1
Germany
1
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
1
Western and Central Europe
1
Mauritius
1
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Russia
1
Sudan
1
Iraq
1
Somalia
1
Ecuador
1
Solomon Islands
1
Myanmar / Burma
1
Madagascar
1
Pakistan
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
205
Public Health
39
Clinical Guidelines
30
Women & Child Health
24
Key Resources
18
Capacity Building
5
Pharmacy & Technologies
4
Toolboxes
HIV
120
Disability
30
TB
29
Mental Health
27
COVID-19
27
NTDs
19
Global Health Education
19
Health Financing Toolbox
16
Rapid Response
13
Planetary Health
13
Natural Hazards
8
AMR
8
Refugee
7
Caregiver
7
Malaria
7
NCDs
6
Pharmacy
4
Conflict
4
Specific Hazards
2
Ebola & Marburg
2
2.0 Rapid Response
2
Zika
2
Cholera
1
Social Ethics
1
Polio
1
Emergency medical teams (EMT) are first response health care providers – doctors, nurses, paramedics, and others – during outbreaks and emergencies or disasters, working with governments, charities such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), armies, and international organizations such as the ...
Internationally, there is a growing concern over antimicro-bial resistance (AMR) which is currently estimated to ac-count for more than 700,000 deaths per year worldwide. If no appropriate measures are taken to halt its pro-gress, AMR will cost approximately 10 million lives andabout US$100 trillion...
The report “Dementia: a public health priority” has been jointly developed by WHO and Alzheimer's Disease International. The purpose of this report is to raise awareness of dementia as a public health priority, to articulate a public health approach and to advocate for action at international a...
The report provides a brief introduction to patents and licences and their effect on the market for antiretroviral (ARV) medicines. It gives an overview of the patent landscape with respect to a select number of ARV medicines in developing countries as of April 2014. The focus is primarily on those ...
This report presents, for the first time, a global assessment of the extent to which health care facilities provide essential water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Drawing on data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, the report concludes that 38% lack access to even rudimentary levels ...
The 2020 Report analyzes global health spending for 190 countries from 2000 to 2018 and provides insights as to the health spending trajectory from the MDG era to the SDG era prior to the crisis of 2020. The report shows that global spending on health continually rose between 2000 and 2018 and reach...
The WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) was launched in 2015 to foster AMR surveillance and inform strategies to contain AMR. The system started with surveillance of AMR in bacteria causing common human infections and has expanded its scope to include surveillance...
Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free - 2020 report
recommended
This progress report reviews recent gains, new developments and remaining challenges as countries approach the 2020 targets of the Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free framework.
South Africa has faced many challenges over the past two decades, accomplishing profound positive changes in the social structure and government of the nation. This has not yet fully translated into better health for the population, however, particularly the poorest segment. In fact, the p...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an important public health concern shared by developed and developing countries. In developing countries the burden of infectious diseases is greater and exacerbated by limited access to, and availability and affordability of, antimicrobials required to treat infect...
Recency assays use one or more biomarkers to identify whether HIV infection in a person is recent (usually within a year or less) or longstanding. Recency assays have been used to estimate incidence in representative cross-sectional surveys and in epidemiological studies to better understand the pat...
From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working
“The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than
it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV
every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that
TB d...
The WHO/UNICEF JMP report, WASH in Health Care Facilities, is the first comprehensive global assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities. It also finds that 1 in 5 health care facilities has no sanitation service*, impacting 1.5 billion people. The report further rev...
This is the 19th annual Landmine Monitor report. It is the sister publication to the Cluster Munition Monitor report, first published in November 2010.
Landmine Monitor 2016 provides a global overview of the landmine situation. Chapters on developments in specific countries and other areas are ava...
Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically dis...
To complement the Global Strategy progress reporting, this report provides a detailed look at country leadership and action toward the Every Newborn National Milestones by 2020. Countries have taken the initiative to show the way forward and have demonstrated significant progress. As part of monitor...
Over the past decade, countries in the African region experienced slow progress in mobilizing resources for health while facing continued challenges. In their revised estimates published in 2017, Stenberg et al., developed two costs scenarios, termed progress and ambitious, aimed at strengthening co...
These guidelines group all recommendations on TB care and support in one document and are complemented by an operational handbook. The guidelines are to be used primarily by national TB programmes, or their equivalents in Ministries of Health, stakeholders and technical organizations working on...
The power relations around global decisions which shape population health can be changed through new alliances and information flows. The Democratising Global Health Governance Initiative, of which WHO Watch is a project, is designed to contribute to improved population health (and health equity) th...
This programmatic brief explores how to expand HIV and STI prevention and contraceptive method options in contraceptive services and, thus, to reduce HIV and STI incidence among adolescent girls and women. It focuses on settings with extremely high HIV prevalence and incidence. This brief complement...
