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International instruments on the use of antimicrobials across the human, animal and plant sectors

the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) C_WHO

The publication provides an overview and analysis of international instruments that set standards related to the use of antimicrobials across the human, animal and plant sectors, and their release into the environment. The purpose of the document is ... more

Water and planetary health. Protecting the lifeblood of human civilisation

Macklin, M. (2019) C2

Water is the lifeblood of planetary health and human civilisation. As a critical source of fresh water, rivers underpin civilisations, past and present. However, rivers constantly change in response to environmental and ... more

NATIONAL ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2017) C1

These guidelines are applicable to all biomedical, social and behavioural science research for health conducted in India involving human participants, their biological material and data. The purpose of such research should be: i. directed towards e ... more

Severe Acute Malnutrition Update: Current WHO Guidelines and the WHO Essential Medicine List for Children

Williams, Phoebe CM.; Berkley, James A. (2016) C1

This document was prepared in response to a need to review and potentially update the current recommendations for the antibiotic treatment of both inpatient and outpatient management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The current recommendations (Table 1) are based on guidelines published in 2013 i ... more

Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah and Solomon Nyame Globalization and Health (2009) CC

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family hom ... more

Cárcel, derechos humanos y salud pública en el contexto de la pandemia COVID-19 (Prison, Human Rights and Public Health in the context of the COVID-2019 pandemic)

Guimaraes, Alice Soares; Maclean Soruco, Enrique y Eguivar, Mario A Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico (2020) CC

Este artículo analiza un grupo particularmente vulnerable a la pandemia de la COVID-2019: las personas privadas de libertad (PPLs). Con base en el análisis del Censo Carcelario de 2019, presentamos la situación actual de las PPLs y las condiciones de los establecimient ... more

India’s Disability Policy – Analysis of Core Concepts of Human Rights

Jessica O’Dowd, Hasheem Mannan, Joanne McVeigh (2013) C1

Malawi national action plan on antimicrobial resistance: review of progress in the human health sector

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief aims to provide a review of the current progress on implementing the Malawi national action plan on AMR, identifies critical gaps, and highlights findings to accelerate further progress in the human health sector. The target audien ... more

Tanzania: GUIDELINES ON SUBMISSION OF DOCUMENTATION FOR REGISTRATION OF HUMAN PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS

Tanzania Food & Drugs Authority (TFDA) (2015) C2

First Edition

WHO Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Herbal Medicine
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO

The manufacturing process is one of the key steps where quality control is required to ensure quality of medicinal products, including herbal medicines. Good manufacturing practices (GMP) is one of the most important tools for this measure.

Rabies: rationale for investing in the global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies

World Organisation for Animal Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2015) C_WHO

Rabies is a global public health problem with important socioeconomic impacts. Human rabies is preventable; almost all cases are transmitted through the bite of a rabid dog. Elimination of human rab ... more

Laboratory testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in suspected human cases
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing of patients who meet the definition of suspected case of pneumonia associated with a novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan, China. 19 March 2020

What you need to know about HIV and COVID-19 in the context of human mobility

ONUSIDA; Response for Venezuelans (R4V) (2020) C2

COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus, a new coronavirus associated with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) viruses family and some coronaviruses associated with common cold. There is still no evidence that persons living with HIV have a higher risk of contracting CO ... more

Monitoring HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction in Prisons: A Human Rights-Based Tool to Prevent Ill Treatment

G. Sander Harm Reduction International; European Union (2016) C2

February 2016

Kenya national action plan on antimicrobial resistance: review of progress in the human health sector

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief aims to provide a review of the current progress on implementing the Kenya national action plan on AMR, identifies critical gaps, and highlights findings to accelerate further progress in the human health sector. The target audienc ... more

WHO Prequalification of Diagnostics Programme - Public Report (Product: ABONtm HIV 1/2/O Tri-Line Human Immunodeficiency Virus Rapid Test Device, Number: PQDx 0141-051-00)

World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO

PQDx 0141-051-00 WHO PQDx Public Report April/2017, version 5.0

Burkina Faso national action plan on antimicrobial resistance: review of progress in the human health sector

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief aims to provide a review of the current progress on implementing the Burkina Faso national action plan on AMR, identifies critical gaps, and highlights findings to accelerate further progress in the human health sector. The target ... more

Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynaecology by the FIGO committee for the Study of Ethical aspects of Human Reproduction and Woman's Health

FIGO (2012)

'Ethical Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology' represents the results of carefully researched and considered discussion. The guidelines are intended to provide material for consideration and debate about ethical aspects of our discipline for member organisations and their constituent membership.

The expanding epidemic of HIV-1 in the Russian Federation

C. Beyrer; A. L. Wirtz; G. O’Hara; et al. PLOS Medicine (2017) CC

PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002462 November 28, 2017

Istanbul Protocol

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) United Nations (2004) CC

Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment