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Health Response to the Situation in Ar-Raqqa

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Establishing trauma referral pathways to provide urgent life-saving assistance for displaced populations and civilians remaining in Ar-Raqqa. In July 2017, a WHO team comprising an external trauma care specialist and two WHO staff members visited the governorates of Ar-Raqqa and neighbouring Al-Ha ... more

Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Human Rights: A practitioner’s guide

The British Institute of Human Rights (2016) C1

Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey 2014- 15, District Profile Chart Book, Southern Province

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) [Rwanda], Ministry of Health (MOH) [Rwanda], and ICF International (2015) C2

The National Institute of statistics of Rwanda (NISR) in collaboration with the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys Program implemented the 2014-15 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) to collect data for monitoring progress on health programs and policies in Rwanda. This publication ill ... more

WHO toolkit for the care and support of people affected by complications associated with Zika virus

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

The WHO Toolkit for the care and support of people affected by complications associated with Zika virus has been developed to serve as a model guide, with the goal of enhancing country preparedness for Zika virus outbreaks. The toolkit is intended to provide a systems approach involving public heal ... more

Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; IFRC, et al. (2018) CC

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is an essential part of any disease outbreak response. Risk communication in the context of an Ebola outbreak refers to real time exchange of information, opinion and advice between frontline responders and people who are faced with the threat of Eb ... more

National Framework for Joint HIV/TB Collaborative Activities

NACO, DOTS (2013)

National Health Accounts Guidelines India 2016

National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of india (2016) C1

Let’s break silos now! Achieving disability-inclusive education in a post-COVID world

Handicap International; Humanity & Inclusion (2020) CC

Humanity & Inclusion has published a report on November 20, on the difficulties children with disabilities face in accessing education in the world’s poorest countries.

WHO-AIMS Report on mental health system in Ghana

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2011) C_WHO

The World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) was used to collect information on the mental health system in Ghana for the year 2011. The goal of collecting this information is to improve the mental health system and to provide a baseline for monitoring the ... more

Global guidance on criteria and processes for validation: elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus

EMTCT Global Validation Advisory Committee, Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Validation of elimination of mother-to-child transmission, or vertical transmission, of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus (HBV), is an attestation that a country has successfully met standard criteria for elimination, or for being at 1 of the 3 levels of achievement on the ‘Path to Elimination� ... more

Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research

Cash R et al. World Health Organization (2009) C_WHO

This casebook collects 64 case studies, each of which raises an important and difficult ethical issue connected with planning, reviewing, or conducting health-related research. The book’s purpose is to contribute to thoughtful analysis of these issues by researchers and members of research ethics ... more

Chronic Care for Neglected Infectious Diseases: Leprosy/ Hansen’s Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Trachoma, and Chagas Disease
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Pan American Health Organization PAHO PAHO, WHO (2021) C_WHO

This manual provides a framework for morbidity management and disability prevention of patients affected by NIDs and gives specific guidance for the proper care of patients suffering from chronic conditions caused by lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, trachoma, and Chagas disease. It is intended to be u ... more

Family planning saves lives and promotes resilience in humanitarian contexts

CARE, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Women's Refugee Commission (2017) C1

Globally, it is estimated that 128.6 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Of these individuals, approximately one-fourth are women and girls of reproductive age. Although family planning is one of the most life-saving, empowering, and cost-effective interventions for wome ... more

Logistics

R.S. Stephenson WHO; UNDP (1993)

Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI)

UNIECF; WHO; FAO (2012)

A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response

A New Way to Talk about the Social Determinats of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2014) C2

Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool: HEAT Handbook

Fraser V, Hunt MR, Schwartz L, and de Laat S (2014)

You can download the handbook, worksheets and quick reference cards from the website! The HHEAT is an ethical analysis tool designed to help humanitarian healthcare workers make ethical decisions. It consists of 3 components: (1) a summary card highlighting key questions, (2) a handbook providing a ... more

Inheriting a sustainable world? Atlas on children’s health and environment.

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

In 2015, 26% of the deaths of 5.9 million children who died before reaching their fifth birthday could have been prevented through addressing environmental risks – a shocking missed opportunity. The prenatal and early childhood period represents a window of particular vulnerability, where enviro ... more

A research agenda for childhood tuberculosis

World Health Organization (2007) C_WHO

Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review WHO/HTM/TB/2007.381, 07.02