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Task-sharing interventions for improving control of diabetes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Linju Maria, J.; et al. (2020) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2020Published OnlineNovember 27, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30449-6

Guide to Prudent Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Dairy Production

International Dairy Federation (2013) C2

Antimicrobial agents play an indispensable role in animal health and welfare management. At the same time, the need for prudent use is obvious to ensure good food safety outcomes and to manage the potential risk of antimicrobial resistance. The emer ... more

Missed Opportunities for Early Access to Care of HIV-Infected Infants in Burkina Faso

Coulibaly M., N. Meda, C. Yonaba et al. PLOS ONE (2014) C2

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIVinfected children before the age of two since 2010, but this implies an early identification of these infants. We described the Prevention of Mot ... more

O papel dos agentes comunitários de saúde na vacinação contra a COVID-19: guia de apoio à implementaçao

Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS); UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The role of community health workers in the vaccination against COVID-19: guide to support the implementation of the vaccination programme

Every Newborn Action Plan: An Action Plan to End Preventable Deaths in Malawi

Government of Malawi (2013) C2

Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths is a roadmap for change. It takes forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health by focusing specific attention on newborn health ... more

Youth-Friendly Services - A Manual for Service Providers

EngenderHealth (2002)

All young people, including those with special needs and from the most vulnerable groups, have the right to quality health care services. Unfortunately, this right is not a reality, particularly in the case of sexual and reproductive ... more

Malaria vaccines: the 60‑year journey of hope and final success—lessons learned and future prospects

El‑Moamly, A.A.; and M. A. El‑Sweify (2023) CC

Tropical Medicine and Health (2023) 51:29

World Heart Federation Roadmap for Heart Failure

Ferreira, J.P.; Kraus, S.; Mitchell, S. et al. Global Heart (2019) CC

In 2012, all Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed a historical target to reduce premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCD). This commitment was echoed in 2015 by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ... more

Financing the Pandemic Cycle: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery and Reconstruction

Fan V. Y., Kim S., Pineda D., et al. Center for Global Development (2024) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical gaps in the global response to health crises, particularly in the financing of pandemic prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and reconstruction. This chapter presents a comprehensive framework for pand ... more

LEEP Clinical Standards of Practice

Pathfinder International (2013)

This manual guides trained health care providers through the LEEP procedure to remove precancerous cervical lesions that cannot be treated with cryotherapy in order to prevent cervical cancer. The Standard Operating Procedures describe the equipment ... more

Visceral leishmaniasis: a global overview

Wamai, R.; Khan, J.; McGloin, J.; Ziaggi, G. (2020) CC

J Glob Health Sci. 2020 Jun;2(1):e3. A group of enzootic and zoonotic protozoan infections, the leishmaniases constitute among the most severely neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and are found in all continents except Oceania. Representing the most ... more

Implementation science in low-resource settings: using the interactive systems framework to improve hand hygiene in a tertiary hospital in Ghana

Kallam, B.; C. Pettitt-Schieber, M. Owen, et al. (2019) CC

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2018, 30(9), 724–730 Promoting hand hygiene in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Family Case Management: Family-centered care training for care-providers of children and families living with and affected by HIV

FHI360 (2009) CC

This six-day training is intended for case managers/community health volunteers/field supervisors who help households affected by HIV in India.

Beating the DRUM in Lower-Income Countries: Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for SDG3

The Governments of Burkina Faso and Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank Group Global Financing Facility (GFF) (2018) CC

This paper has been prepared to inform discussion at the conference “Beating the DRUM - Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for accelerating progress towards SDG3,”. Many countries face critical shortfalls in domestic resource use and mobilization (DRUM) for ... more

Prudent and efficient use of antimicrobials in pigs and poultry

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2019) C2

This manual will contribute directly to the fourth focus area of the FAO Action Plan by promoting the prevention of infections and the prudent use of antibiotics in the pig and poultry sectors. The pig and poultry sectors are addressed together, as these sectors generally have the highest use of ant ... more

Disability Rights in Burkina Faso

Sida (2012) C2

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (NSID) 168,094 persons out of Burkina Faso’s 14,017,262 inhabitants are living with a physical, sensory or mental disability. The numbers are questioned as the effort to collect in-d ... more

Considering climate and conflict conditions together to improve interventions that prevent child acute malnutrition

Brown, M.E.; Grace, K.; Billing T.; et al. (2021) C1

Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e654–58

Helping young children who have experienced trauma: policies and strategies for early care and education

Jessica Dym Bartlett, Sheila Smith, Elizabeth Bringewatt Child Trends (2017) C1

In this report, we describe early childhood trauma and its effects, offer promising strategies for ECE programs and systems to help young children who have experienced trauma, and present recommendations for state policymakers and other stakeholders ... more

Walking in our shoes: Perspectives of pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV on access to and retention in care in Malawi, Uganda and Zambia

Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) et al. (2017) C1

The study sought to understand the factors that facilitate women to adhere to treatment and return to health facilities for routine care from their own perspective. The researchers focused on Malawi, Uganda and Zambia, early adopters of the global g ... more