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Community health workers to improve uptake of maternal healthcare services: A clusterrandomized pragmatic trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Geldsetzer, P.; Mboggo, E.; Larson, E.; et al. (2019) CC2

PLoS Med 16(3): e1002768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002768 Home delivery and late and infrequent attendance at antenatal care (ANC) are responsible for substantial avoidable maternal and pediatric morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. This cluster-randomized trial aimed to de ... more

IOM Regional Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for the Middle East and North Africa COVID-19

reliefweb; International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C2

While the full effects of COVID-19 remain unknown, the pandemic continues to profoundly impact regional migration and mobility dynamics, with deep health, social and economic consequences for the most vulnerable, including migrants, displaced populations and their host communities, and returnees.

Targeting and prioritization of impoverished and food-insecure populations affected by COVID-19 | Safeguarding and scaling up assistance for people most at risk

WFP (2020) CC

The outbreak of COVID-19 comes with unpredictable primary and secondary impacts on vulnerable and food-insecure populations across the world. Mortality and morbidity appear to be most acute for elderly people, and those with underlying health conditions. At the same time, the widely anti ... more

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis: Introducing the children’s climate risk index

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases. The report is the first comprehensive analysis of climate ri ... more

Infection Prevention and Control Standard Operating Procedures For Cholera Treatment Centres and Units in Malawi (April 2023)

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC; African Union; Government of Malawi; Médecins Sans Frontières; UN Children's Fund UNICEF; World Health Organization WHO (2023) CC

Infection prevention and control (IPC) in a CTC/ CTU IPC are all practical measures taken in the healthcare facility to prevent harm caused by infections to patients, health workers and communities. The main goal of IPC in the cholera response is to • To reduce transmission of health care-as ... more

Start Fund: Learning from disease outbreaks

Start Fund (2018) C1

This learning report attempts to understand the drivers for, and barriers to, effective implementation as well as review the experiences of Start Fund members in responding to these outbreaks to support evidence-based decision-making within the Start Network at project, crisis, and system level. Spe ... more

Consolidated HIV guidelines for prevention, treatment, service delivery & monitoring
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2021) CC

July 2021. This publication brings together important clinical and programmatic updates produced by WHO since 2016 and provides comprehensive, evidence-informed recommendations and good practice statements within a public health, rights-based and person-centred approach. These guidelines bring in ... more

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons
recommended

UNHCR (2003) C1

Guidelines for Prevention and Reponse

Children & neurodevelopmental behavioural intellectual disorders

World Health Organization (2011) C_WHO

Children's Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting in collaboration with OIE on Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance: Role of the Environment, Crops and Biocides

World Health Organization WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2019) C_WHO

In recognition of the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), its increasing threat to human, animal and plant health, and the need for a One Health approach to address this issue, the 39th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) agreed it was important for the food safety comm ... more

Uganda: VHT-Book

Ministry of Health, Republic of Uganda (2009) C1

2024 global AIDS report — The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

UNAIDS (2024) CC

This UNAIDS 2024 report brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of millions of lives and whether the world’s deadliest pandemic is overcome.

Introducing the EU's Green City Tool

European Commission Directorate General for Environment (2019) C1

Ghana 2014 Status Report for the National HIV and AIDS Response

Ghana AIDS Commission (2014) C1

Guidance Note on Disability and Emergency Risk Management for Health

World Health Organization; UNICEF; UNISDR; et al. (2013) C_WHO

This guidance note is intended primarily for health actors working in emergency and disaster risk management (hereafter 'emergency risk management') at the local, national or international level, and in governmental or nongovernmental agencies. People with disabilities, those ... more

Disability and Development

House of Commons International Development Committee DFID (2013) C1

Disabled people in developing countries are the poorest of the poor: if we are serious about tackling extreme poverty, our development work has to target them. The post-2015 development framework offers hope that disabled people will finally get the prominence they deserve on the global development ... more

Implementing Best Practice Measles SIAs, The Ethiopia Experience

Shemsedin Toyba et al. (2011) C1

After The Earthquake: Nepal’s Children Speak Out

Lucia Withers, Nir Dahal, Tara Bajracharya, Naina Puri Save the Children, World Vision International, Plan International, UNICEF (2016) C1

NEPAL CHILDREN’S EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY CONSULTATION - To better understand the consequences of the Nepal Earthquake for children, four child-centred agencies, in coordination with the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD) and the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB), conducted a C ... more

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Pocket Guide
recommended

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania (2013) C1

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Patient Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1999) C_CDC