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Antimicrobial resistance and access to antibiotics

World Health Organization WHO EMHJ – Vol. 30 No. 12 – 2024 (2024) C_WHO

It is estimated that around 2 billion people worldwide do not have access to essential medicines. Access to medicines in the Eastern Mediterranean Region varies among countries, depending on their income level and allocation of domestic resources to medicine and vaccine procurement. Access to safe a ... more

مبادئ توجيهيّة بشأن العلاج الدوائي لفرط ضغط الدم لدى البالغين
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The recommendations cover the level of blood pressure to start medication, what type of medicine or combination of medicines to use, the target blood pressure level, and how often to have follow-up checks on blood pressure. In addition, the guideline provides the basis for how physicians and other h ... more

Standing up for patients' health. Comic strip vol.2

Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (2015) C1

This volume is specifically meant for health professionals. It is titled "tackling microbial resistance: a story of health professionals playing their part".

A Guide to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Legal Protection in Acute Emergencies
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War Child International, Women's Refugee Commission (2016) C1

The guide summarizes an assessment of War Child Canada’s three-pronged legal protection model as implemented with South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda and uses it to identify the most important lessons for ensuring legal protection mechanisms are in place at the onset of an emergency

Mauritius National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2021

Ministry of Health and Quality of Life Mauritius (2017) C2

Antimicrobial resistance has become a serious public health threat for effective treatment of an ever increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. When infections can no longer be treated by first-line antibiotics, other antibiotics must be used, which are both mo ... more

Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measles outbreak

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during ameasles outbreak. This guide has been developed to reduce the high morbidity and mortality seen in some of the current outbreaks of measles. This short guide outlines practical clinical care interventions and is derived ... more

Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population

National Institut for Health and Care Excellence NICE (2017) C2

This guideline covers making people aware of how to correctly use antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) and the dangers associated with their overuse and misuse. It also includesmeasures to prevent and control infection that can stop people needing antimicrobials or spreadinginfection to o ... more

Prevention and Treatment of HIV ands other sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people

World Health Organization; UNAIDS; UNDP; et al. (2011) C_WHO

Recommendations for a public health approach HIV/AIDS Programme

Serious adverse events following treatment of visceral leishmaniasis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Singh-Phulgenda, S., Dahal, P., Ngu, R. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2021) C1

Despite a historical association with poor tolerability, a comprehensive review on safety of antileishmanial chemotherapies is lacking. We carried out an update of a previous systematic review of all published clinical trials in visceral leishmaniasis (VL) from 1980 to 2019 to document any reported ... more

CRS Manager's Guide to PHAST Methodology

Mayling Simpson-Hebert Catholic Relief Services (2011)

THE POSTPARTUM INTRAUTERINE DEVICE - Participant Handbook

EngenderHealthThe ACQUIRE Project (2008)

A Training Course for Service Providers

The Self Advocacy Tool Kit - For Mental Health Services Users

Christina Angela Ntulo CBM & Basic Needs UK in Uganda (BNUU) (2015) C2

First Edition~ This self advocacy toolkit for persons with mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders, developed by Basic Needs and CBM, is the end product of an action research intervention that tracked and documented processes for Self Advocacy in low resourced communities of Uganda. Th ... more

PIH Guide to the Medical Management of MDR-TB

USAID; TB Care; DRTB Training Network (2014) C1

This guide is a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Ebola Virus Disease in Africa: Epidemiology and health facility related transmission

Shears, Paul, T.J.D. O'Dempsey (2015)

A review of current literature and up date data from the field, April 2015. This report has been published in part in J Hosp Inf. 2015;90:1-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ebola+nosocomial+shears

Childhood TB - Training Toolkit

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2014) CC

The training focuses on building the capacity of health care workers at the primary and secondary level to address and manage TB in children.

Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health

Cambodia, Ministry of Health, PMNCH, WHO, World Bank, AHPSR et al. (2015) C_WHO

Training manual logistics of infection prevention and control and health care waste management commodities
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USAID, AIDS Free Nigeria, et al. (2016) C1

A position statement and practical guide to the use of particulate filtering facepiece respirators (N95, FFP2, or equivalent) for South African health workers exposed to respiratory pathogens includin

Dheda, K.; et al. (2022) CC

Afr J Thoracic Crit Care Med 2021;27(4):Published online 22 October 2021. https://doi.org/10.7196/AJTCCM.2021.v27i4.173

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the adolescent HIV continuum of care in South Africa: the Cresting Wave

B. C. Zanoni; M. Archary; S. Buchan; I. T. Katz; J. E. Haberer BMJ Global Health; Pub Med (2016) C2

Zanoni BC, et al. BMJ Glob Health 2016;1:e000004. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2015-000004

Wheelchair service training package - For Managers (Trainer’s Manual)

Sarah Frost, Chapal Khasnabis, Kylie Mines, and Lourdes de la Peza WHO (2015) C_WHO

WHO published and launched the third part of the Wheelchair Service Training Package (WSTP) series consisting of two sub-packages: the Wheelchair Service Training Package for Managers (WSTPm) and the Wheelchair Service Training Package for Stakeholders (WSTPs). WHO recognises that in order to develo ... more