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Accelerating WHO FCTC Implementation in the WHO South-East Asia Region: A Practical Approach

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East-Asia (2017) C_WHO

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (‎WHO FCTC)‎ is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health and was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. Member States of the WHO South-East Asia Region have made ... more

Ethics in epidemics, emergencies and disasters: research, surveillance and patient care: training manual

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Responses to epidemics, emergencies and disasters raise many ethical issues for the people involved, including public health specialists and policy makers. This training manual provides material on ethical issues in research, surveillance and patient care in these difficult contexts.

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak Containment Strategy and Red Cross / Red Crescent Response Plan (MDRCD026) Emergency Appeal Revision no. 4

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2019) C1

сельское население (rural- russian edition)

FG Consulting Group, C. Daniels, C. Smyth et al. UNOPS, Stop TB Partnership et al. (2019) C1

Глобальная статистика свидетельствует о том, что бремя туберкулеза более актуально в городских регионах. Тем не менее, в тех странах, где большая часть населения п� ... more

Antimicrobial Resistance: A Manual for Developing National Action Plans

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, World Health Organization WHO, World Organisation for Animal Health (2016) C_WHO

This manual for developing national action plans to address antimicrobial resistance has been developed at the request of the World Health Assembly to assist countries in the initial phase of developing new, or refining existing national action plans in line with the strategic objectives of the Glo ... more

Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

Roberton, T.; et al. (2020) CC

The Lancet Global Health Published:May 12, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30229-1

United Nations COVID-19 Emergency Appeal Zambia (May - October 2020) (Revised July 2020)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA; UNCT Zambia (2020) C2

The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 18th March 2020. As of April 27th, 2020, there were 89 confirmed cases, three deaths and 42 recoveries. Confirmed cases are located in three provinces: Lusaka (83 cases), Copperbelt province (5 cases) and Central ... more

One Health: human, animal and environmental health form one unit - and affect sustainable development

Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau KfW (2020) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a dramatic illustration of the extent to which the health of people, animals and the environment is interdependent, which is why “One Health” is now high on the political agenda. This document provides an overview of KfW Development Bank’s approach to promoti ... more

Estimating COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) hospitalisations associated with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Many critical questions remain about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in real-world settings. These questions can only be answered in post-introduction vaccine effectiveness studies.This guidance document outlines an approach to leverage existing surveillance systems for Severe Acute Respirato ... more

Managment of sick and small newborns in South Africa

Robertson A., Malan A., Greenfield D. (2015) CC

The training is based on ensuring that the competencies to care for newborn are acquired. A range of adult learning methods are used, these include reading and self-study, discussion, and case based learning in written exercises and group discussions, visual presentations and extensive clinical pr ... more

Towards a dementia inclusive society

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The toolkit provides practical guidance and tools that can support efforts, including planning and implementation activities, to create dementia-inclusive societies. The toolkit is divided into two parts. Part I contains background information and a conceptual framework for creating dementia-incl ... more

Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan to End the Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

More than two years since the first SARS-CoV-2 infections were reported, the COVID-19 pandemic remains an acute global emergency. In this Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response plan for 2022, WHO sets out a number of key strategic adjustments that, if implemented rapidly and consistently at ... more

Ways out of the global health crisis

Seitz, K. Misereor, Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum GPF (2021) C1

Healthy people, healthy animals and a healthy environment worldwide with the One Health approach. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically demonstrated just how close the link is between humans, animals, and the environment, and has highlighted and aggravated existing challenges. The destruction of na ... more

Africaʼs response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A summary of country reports

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO

January 2020 to December 2021

Analysis of the nature and contribution of innovative health financing mechanisms in the WHO African Region

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Africa is off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and lags behind in building resilient health systems and health security, against a backdrop of limited resources. The world envisaged a significant role for governments in funding the Sustainable Development Agenda, but inadeq ... more

Tracking development assistance for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in conflictaffected countries

Li Z., Richter L., Lu C. BMJ Global Health (2019) CC

Little is known about the patterns of development assistance (DA) for each component of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) in conflict-affected countries nor about the DA allocation in relation to the burden of disease

Mozambique: Tropical Cyclone Idai - Emergency Appeal n° MDRMZ014

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2019) C1

The disaster and Red Cross Red Crescent response to date 9 March 2019: Tropical Cyclone Idai forms over Northern Mozambique Channel. CVM preparedness and early warning actions underway 13 March 2019: IFRC Surge Capacity is deployed to Maputo 14 March 2019: 342,562 Swiss francs allocated from th ... more

Rapid Pharmaceutical Management Assessment

Rational Pharmaceutical Management Project Pan American Health Organization (1995) CC

An Indicator-based Approach - This manual presents an indicator-based approach for rapidly assessing pharmaceutical management systems and programs. The manual contains a set of 46 indicators of performance, grouped under eight topics of pharmaceutical management, with each topic being covered by a ... more

Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility

Al Delaimy W., Ramanathan V., Sanchez Sorondo M. et al. (2020) CC

This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and ch ... more

Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings (IASC)
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee UNAIDS (2010)