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Taking Care of a Baby at Home After Birth: What Families Need to Do

CoreGroup; Safe the Children; USAID; et al. (2011)

This flipbook, released in Nov. 2011, contains key messages that pregnant women and their families need in order to plan care of an infant at home right after birth. It focuses on essential actions families can take both to prevent newborn death and illness and to promote healthy newborn development... more

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Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Guidance for human rights monitors Professional training series No. 17 New

United Nations Human Rights UNHR (2010)

The adoption and the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol challenge such attitudes and mark a profound shift in existing approaches towards disability.

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National Hygiene and Environmental Health Strategy (2016-2020)

Ministry of Health, Ethiopia (2016) C1

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Nepal: National Health Sector Support Program Capacity Assessment for Nutrition

Spiro D., Devkota M., Rana P. et al. (2010) C1

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Sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: report on the 2023 policy survey

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

Evidence- and rights-based national policies, guidelines and legislation play a key role in improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH), framing the enabling environment for equitable provision and accessibility of quality services. The SRMNCAH policy sur... more

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National Guidelines for Implementation of HIV Prevention Programmes for Female Sex Workers in Nigeria

National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Government of Nigeria (2014) C1

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International Development Association Project Paper on a proposed additional grant to the DRC

The World Bank (2016) C2

Project Paper to provide an additional grant for: Human Development Systems Strengthening Project (HDSSP)(P145965, H9360)

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Guidance Note on Using the Cluster Approach to Strengthen Humanitarian Response

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2006) C1

The cluster approach is a mechanism that helps to address identified gaps in response and enhance the quality of humanitarian action

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Universal Health Coverage Health Advocacy Guide

UHC2030 (2018) C1

A guide to promote health systems strengthening to achieve universal health coverage.

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Global Fund Launches Private Sector Investment Opportunity Ahead of Critical Eighth Replenishment

The Global Fund The Global Fund (2025) CC

Private sector engagement opens pathways for a game-changing US$2 billion investment opportunity in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

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Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2025) CC

Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. This collapse is placing immense pressure on Africa’s already fragile health systems as ODA ...is seen as the backbone of critical health programs: pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health services, disease control programs are all at risk, threatening Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage. Compounding this is Africa’s spiraling debt, with countries expected to service USD 81 billion by 2025—surpassing anticipated external financing inflows—further eroding fiscal space for health investments. Level of domestic resources is low. TThe Abuja Declaration of 2001, a pivotal commitment made by African Union (AU) member states, aimed to reverse this trend by pledging to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector. However, more than two decades later, only three countries—Rwanda, Botswana, and Cabo Verde—have consistently met or exceeded this target (WHO, 2023). In contrast, over 30 AU member states remain well below the 10% benchmark, with some allocating as little as 5–7% of their national budgets to health. In addition, only 16 (29%) of African countries currently have updated versions of National Health Development Plan (NHDP) supported by a National Health Financing Plan (NHFP). These two documents play a critical role in driving internal resource mobilisation. At the same time, public health emergencies are surging, rising 41%—from 152 in 2022 to 213 in 2024—exposing severe under-resourcing of health infrastructure and workforce. Recurring outbreaks (Mpox, Ebola, cholera, measles, Marburg…) alongside effects of climate change and humanitarian crises in Eastern DRC, the Sahel, and Sudan, are overwhelming systems stretched by chronic underfunding. The situation is worsened by Africa’s heavy dependency with over 90% of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics being externally sourced—leaving countries vulnerable to global supply chain shocks. Health worker shortages persist, with only 2.3 professionals per 1,000 people (below the WHO’s recommended 4.45), and fewer than 30% of systems are digitized, undermining disease surveillance and early warning. Without decisive action, Africa CDC projects the continent could reverse two decades of health progress, face 2 to 4 million additional preventable deaths annually, and a heightened risk of a pandemic emerging from within. Furthermore, 39 million more Africans could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to intertwined health and economic shocks. This is not just a sectoral crisis—it is an existential threat to Africa’s political, social, and economic resilience, and global stability. In response, African leaders, under Africa CDC’s stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance. more

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Lil Mosquito, Big Problem Campaign: Phase II

Breakthrough ACTION Guyana; Ministry of Health of Guyana (2025) C1

In 2023, Breakthrough ACTION and Guyana’s Ministry of Health refined the 'Lil Mosquito, Big Problem' malaria campaign using human-centred design. Phase II introduced peer-led videos (Miners' Buzz), community champions, incentives for volunteer testers and a transport network to improve supply deli... more

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Advancing equity in diabetes technology
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Diabetes Africa (2024) CC

This toolkit suggests several approaches to addressing technology access disparities. At its core is a comprehensive checklist that helps teams systematically evaluate their current practices and identify opportunities for improvement. This structured self-assessment tool spans both team-level a... more

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Country guidance for planning triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus programmes

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

This publication provides guidance for planning country-specific programming to achieve the triple elimination of mother-to-child (or vertical) transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus. It is based on the WHO Triple Elimination Framework, which promotes an integrated, person-centred appro... more

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Access to safe, effective and quality-assured health products and technologies

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Access to safe, effective and quality-assured health products and technologies is crucial for achieving universal health coverage and primary health care goals. The continued growth of the aging population; increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases; growing burden of mental health issues; climat... more

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International Maternal & Child Health Care - A practical manual for hospitals worldwide

Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI) , Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) Radcliffe (2015) C2

The purpose of adding the books to the website of MCAI for download, is to make this life-saving, up-to-date information available to all who need it. Fill in a short registration field and you can download the pdf-files. If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providing free care - y... more

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Longlist of knowledge gaps in Planetary health

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) C2

The longlist of knowledge gaps is based on existing research agendas published in 2015 or later and expert input from reviewers of the first draft of the longlist. It only includes knowledge gaps focussing on a better understanding of the relationship between global environmental change and human h... more

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UNHCR SIERRA LEONE FACTSHEET August 2014

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (2014) C1

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Collection testing and transfusion kit 2021 (CTT kit 2021)

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

To provide supply & equipment to collect, test and transfuse 50 blood bags. The new Collection testing and transfusion kit 2021 is specially designed for emergency settings where blood transfusion is crucial. It contains all the necessary supply & equipment needed to collect blood, test it agains... more

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UNHCR Sierra Leone: Fact Sheet 2014

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (2014) C1

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