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Policy Brief: COVID-19 & Poverty and Hunger

World Vision (2020) CC

Primary Health Care As An Enabler For “Ending The Epidemics” Of High-Impact Communicable Diseases

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showed that global commitment and collective action could significantly reduce the disease burdens of three deadly communicable diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The MDGs helped focus efforts on these three deadly diseases and leveraged ... more

Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Ethiopia: The case for investment, including considerations on the impact of khat

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

In 2016, the risk of premature mortality1 from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Ethiopia was 18.3%. The economic costs of NCDs are significant and are due principally to their impact on the non-health sector (reduced workforce and productivity). In this study, it is estimated that NCDs cost Ethiop ... more

Roadmap on human resource strategies to improve newborn care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Every year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm – before 37 weeks of pregnancy. That is more than 1 in 10 live births. Approximately 1 million children die each year worldwide due to complications from their early birth. Those that survive often face a lifetime of ill-health including ... more

Broader health impacts of vertical responses to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Tabitha Hrynick, T.; S. Ripoll and S. Carter Social Science in Humanitarian Action (2021) C1

This paper reviews the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs, where historic and ongoing under-investments heighten vulnerability to a multiplicity of health threats. We use the term ‘vertical response’ to describ ... more

Vaccine misinformation management field guide

The Public Good Projects; UNICEF; First Draft, Yale Insitute for Global Health (2020) C_UNICEF

Guidance for addressing a global infodemic and fostering demand for immunization December 2020 Misinformation threatens the success of vaccination programs across the world. This guide aims to help organizations to address the global infodemic through the development of strategic and well-coordina ... more

Refugees and migrants in times of COVID-19: mapping trends of public health and migration policies and practices

World Health Organization WHO (2021) CC

Medical Ethics and Bedside Rationing in Low‐Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

Kapiriri, L. ResearchGate (2017) CC

Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives There’s evidence that implementing the four medical ethics principles may be challenging especially in low income country contexts with extreme resource scarcity and limited capacity to facilitate deliberations on the different ethical dilemmas. ... more

Assessing Health Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change

Berry, P.; P. M. Enright, J. Shumake-Guillemot et al. (2018) CC

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15(12), 2626; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122626 Climate change is increasing risks to human health and to the health systems that seek to protect the safety and well-being of populations. Health authorities require information about current associatio ... more

Glaube in Aktion. Wie religiöse Organisationen den demografischen Wandel in Westafrika voranbringen

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2022) CC

In Westafrika wird die Bevölkerung in den nächsten Jahrzehnten noch stark wachsen. Bis 2050 dürfte sich die Einwohnerzahl der 16 Staaten von heute 402 auf rund 797 Millionen Menschen nahezu verdoppeln. Der Grund dafür sind vor allem hohe Geburtenraten: Frauen bekommen zwischen Mauretanien und ... more

Melarsoprol Resistance in African Trypanosomiasis

Fairlamb, A.H.; Horn, D. Elsevier Ltd. (2018) CC

Arsenical monotherapies were previously very successful for treating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Melarsoprol resistance emerged as early as the 1970s and was widespread by the late 1990s. Melarsoprol resistance represents the only example of widespread drug resistance in HAT patients wher ... more

Gesundheitssysteme stärken, Menschenleben retten

Rüppel, T. Kindermissionswerk ‚Die Sternsinger‘ e.V. (2022) CC

Im Hinblick auf die Finanzierung von Gesundheit im Allgemeinen und von Kindergesundheit im Speziellen ist zunächst zu berücksichtigen, ob die Gelder aus öffentlichen oder privaten Quellen stammen. Denn daraus ergeben sich grundsätzliche Unterschiede. Da private Krankenversicherungen gewinnorient ... more

Cardiovascular Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa Compared to High-Income Countries: An Epidemiological Perspective

Yuyun, M.F.; Sliwa, K.; Kengne, A.P. et al. Global Heart (2020) CC

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the second common cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounting for about 35% of all deaths, after a composite of communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases. Despite prior perception of low NCDs mortality rates, current evidence suggests t ... more

World Happiness Report 2021

Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2021) CC

The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared. Our aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people’s lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world ha ... more

Leitlinie: Diagnostik und Therapie der Schistosomiasis (Bilharziose)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenmedizin und Internationale Gesundheit (DTG) (2017) CC

AWMF guideline, seit 5 Jahren nicht mehr aktualisiert, wird gerade überarbeitet

Voluntary medical male circumcision

UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

Steady progress in the scaleup of VMMC as an HIV prevention intervention in 15 eastern and southern African countries before the SARS-CoV2 pandemic

Promoting Positive Environments for Women and Girls - Guidelines for Women and Girls Friendly Spaces in South Sudan

UNICEF (2015) C_UNICEF

The creaNon of ‘friendly spaces’ for women and girls has been a key strategy in the protecNon and empowerment of women 1 and girls in South Sudan since conflict re-erupted in the country in December 2013. This document provides guidance on the aims of these spaces, and how they can best be e ... more

Annual Evaluation of the Abolition of User Fees at Primary Healthcare Facilities in Kenya

Maina T., Kirigia D. USAID, PEPFAR, Health Policy Project (2015) C1