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National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases | 2021 - 2026

Word Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have emerged as conditions of great public health concern in Kenya accounting for 39% of deaths annually. The Ministry of Health through the Department of Non-Communicable Diseases has adopted the vision of achieving a nation free from preventable burden of NCDs. Fur ... more

Intimate Partner Violence and Interruption to Contraceptive Use

Kerry L.D. MacQuarrie, Lindsay Mallick &; Sunita Kishor Rockville, Maryland, USA: ICF International (2016)

DHS Analytical Studies No. 57

Guidelines for essential trauma care
recommended

Mock, C et al World Health Organization (WHO) (2004) C_WHO

The Guidelines for essential trauma care seek to set achievable standards for trauma treatment services which could realistically be made available to almost every injured person in the world. They then seek to define the resources that would be necessary to assure such care. These include human res ... more

Addressing childhood trauma in a developmental context

Gregorowski, C. & Seedat, S. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2013) CC

Traditionally, understanding of the psychiatric and psychological effects of trauma have been developed from studies with adults and then applied to trauma-exposed children with some modifications. While this is an important step to understanding the sequelae of trauma in children and adolescents, t ... more

Burkina Faso 2003 DHS - Key indidcators youth age 15-24

The DHS Program (2020) C2

Accessed on 11.03.2020

Children’s Mental Health Research: Quarterly - Helping Children Overcome Trauma

Children’s Health Policy Centre (2011) C2

Vol. 5, No. 3 - 2011 | The Quarterly provides summaries of the best available research evidence on a variety of children’s mental health topics, prepared using systematic review and synthesis methods adapted from the Cochrane Collaboration and Evidence-Based Mental Health. Our goal is to improve ... more

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND CHILD TRAUMA: POLICY BRIEF

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) (2017) C2

Provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an overview of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its relationship to child trauma, as well as policy-relevant and child trauma-focused recommendations to assist them in their response to intimate p ... more

Effect of employment on rate and severity of domestic violence against women in Swaziland

Charles I Azih (2007) C1

Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers: prevention, preparedness, response and aftercare. Summary Brief

European Interagency Security Forum (2019) C1

Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers aims to support aid agencies in preventing, being prepared for and responding to incidents of sexual violence against their staff. It is intended as a go ... more

Guidelines for Health Staff Caring for Gender-based Violence Survivors: Including Protocol for Clinical Management of Rape [EN]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Protection Cluster, Health Cluster (2016) C1

Gender-based violence, including rape is a problem throughout the world, occurring in every society, country and region. Refugees and internally displaced people are particularly at risk of this violation during every phase of an emergency situation ... more

Lessons from Northern Uganda in addressing gender based violence

Sharlene Yang Action Contre la Faim France (2017) C1

Against their will. Sexual and Gender based Violence against Young People in Haiti

Médecins sans Frontières MSF (2017) C2

Clinical Handbook on the health care of Survivors Subjected to Intimate Partner Violence and/or Sexual Violence, Namibia

Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia; WHO; UNFPA; et al. (2020) C_WHO

This handbook is an adaptation from the WHO Clinical Handbook Health care for women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Wom ... more

Triple Jeopardy: Violence against women with disabilities in Cambodia

Australian AID (2013) C2

RESEARCH POLICY BRIEF

Gender-based Violence and HIV amongst Internally Displaced Persons, Host Communities and Female Sex Workers in South Sudan

Phineas Jasi IOM (2017) C1

MSF: Psychosocial and Mental Health Interventions in Areas of Mass Violence
recommended

Kaz de Jong Médecins Sans Frontières (2011) C2

A community-based approach. These guidelines focus on manmade rather than natural disasters, but our experiences in India, El Salvador and Pakistan (earthquake interventions), and following the 2004 tsunami, cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010, showed that the principles describ ... more

Assessing Patients For Sexual Violence

National Sexual Violence Resource Center (2011) C1

A GUIDE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. This material was reprinted, with permission, from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s publication entitled Assessing patients for sexual violence ... more

Violence against women during COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C1

Questions & Answers

Covid-19 and violence against older people

WHO (2020) C_WHO

Brochure on 'increase in the risk of violence against older people' and what can be done to adress it.

Sexual Violence Against Men, Boys, and Transgender Women in the Syrian Conflict

Human Rights Watch HRW; HELEM (2020) C1

“They Treated Us in Monstrous Ways”. Since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011, men and boys and transgender women have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence by the Syrian government and non-state armed groups, includin ... more