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DRC: Plan National de Développement de l'Informatique de la Santé (PNDIS)

Ministère de la Santé Publique, Republique Démocratique du Congo (2014) C1

Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action - Child protection

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

Guidance | Preparedness - Response and early recovery - Recovery and reconstruction

Questions & Answers Booklet: for Albinos, their Families and Friends

TAS & TGPSH - GTZ (2009) C2

Newborn survival in Nepal: a decade of change and future implications

Pradhan, Y.V., Upreti, S.R., Pratap, K.C.N, et al. Health Policy and Planning (2012) CC

Nepal is on target to meet the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child health despite high levels of poverty, poor infrastructure, difficult terrain and recent conflict. Each year, nearly 35000 Nepali children die before their fifth birthday, with almost two-thirds of these deaths occurr ... more

Linking Private Primary Health Care Networks to Sustainable Domestic Financing: A Practical Guide for Network Managers

Hariharan, N., Ishtiaq, A., Eldridge, C., et al. Results for Development (R4D) (2018) C1

The guide helps network managers and technical experts navigate the steps necessary for gathering, structuring, analyzing and reporting information needed to make strategic plans that improve sustainability and equity.

WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes. Selected highlights
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

Mental illness-stigma and discrimination in Zambia

Kapungwe, A.; et al. (2010) CC

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47460246_Mental_illness-stigma_and_discrimination_in_Zambia

State Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance in Delhi

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India, et al. (2020) C1

Antibiotics use with care

Commisson Notice: Guidelines for the prudent use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine

Official Journal of the European Union (2015) C2

The extensive use of antimicrobials in human and veterinary medicine in recent years has accelerated the emergence and spread of resistant microorganisms. This situation has been worsened by the lack of investment in developing new effective antibiotics. The severity of the consequences is clear to ... more

Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) CC

Ensure effective and coordinated public health emergency preparedness and response using a One Health approach

Human Mobility, Shared Opportunity: A Review of the 2009 Human Development Report and the Way Ahead. Summary

UN Development Programme UNDP (2020) C1

Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities recommends expanding legal pathways, reducing transaction costs on remittances, guaranteeing migrants’ rights, especially for women, fostering integration and social cohesion, and mobilizing diasporas. With forced migration doubling over the last 10 years to ar ... more

End Inequalities. End AIDS. Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026
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UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

The new Global AIDS Strategy 2021--2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS, is a bold approach that uses an inequalities lens to close the gaps preventing progress to end AIDS

Winding up the worm Dracunuculiasis

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2013) C_WHO

Global efforts to eradicate dracunculiasis have continued to progress, with only 542 cases reported in 2012, as compared with 1058 in 2011. It is a long thread-like worm. It is transmitted exclusively when people drink water contaminated with parasite-infected water fl eas. It is now found in some o ... more

African Union Health Information Exchange Guidelines and Standards

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2023) CC

The application of digital health technology is growing at a rapid rate in Africa, with the goals of improving the delivery of healthcare services and more effectively reaching out to remote and underserved communities. The lack of enabling guidelines and standards across the continent, on the other ... more

2014 Facility Assessment for Reproductive Health Commodities and Services

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports, Department of Medical Research, Department of Public Health, Department of Medical Care, UNFPA (2015) C1

A cross-sectional descriptive study design covering all states and regions was undertaken to:
1) To assess availability, utilization and supply chain management system for RH commodities at different levels of health facilities,
2) To assess quality of RH services with emphasis on family ... more

Let our Actions Count. South Africa's National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs 2017-2022.
recommended

South African National AIDS Council, et al. (2017) C1

National Guidelines for HIV Prevention Treatment and Care

Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria (2016) C1

Children’s Worlds National Report South Africa

Shazly Savahl, Sabirah Adams, Serena Isaacs, et al. (2015) C2

Hospital Safe from Disasters

ISDR; World Health Organization WHO; The World Bank United Nations (2008) CC

Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives