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Medical device donations: considerations for solicitation and provision
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World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

This document provides an overview of the issues and challenges surrounding medical device donations, and offers considerations and best practices that may be useful for making and soliciting donations. The document highlights the importance of an active participatory role for the intended recipient ... more

Disability in humanitarian context Views from affected people and field organisations

Handicap International (2015) C2

STUDY - 2015 | Advocacy

SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach

SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative (2014) C2

WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018

World Meteorological Organization (2019) C1

The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate.

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic UNFPA Global Response Plan

OCHA; Reliefweb; UNFPA OCHA; Reliefweb; UNFPA (2020) C2

April 2020

Catalogue of interventions addressing vaccine hesitancy

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2017) C1

This catalogue provides tools and information resources to support EU/EEA countries in addressing the challenging issue of vaccine hesitancy. The catalogue provides examples of practices that can serve as a resource for other countries. The project was developed in the context of ECDC’s support fo ... more

Covid-19 and NCDs

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Assessment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary results. Guidance on how to provide continuity for NCD programmes:• How to include NCDs in public health emergencies protocols?• How to develop national NCDs tool kits for use in emergen ... more

Optimizing community health worker programmes for HIV services: a guide for health policy and system support.

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This document synthesizes key elements of the World Health Organization (WHO) normative guidance on health policy and system support for community health worker (CHW) programmes and their application for HIV programmes. Building on relevant elements of HIV guidelines, tools and evidence identified b ... more

Online Training of Trainers in Psychological First Aid

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2022) C1

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world and consequently increased MHPSS needs across various contexts. While National Societies respond to the rising mental health and psychosocial support needs, they are also adapting to and implementing remote support, such as telephone hotlines or other onl ... more

Snapshot report: The state of communication, community engagement and accountability across the Ukraine response (30 September 2022)

CDAC Network Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) C2

Since the first edition of the CDAC snapshot of communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) across the Ukraine response was published in May 2022, a conscious effort has been made by international, national and local responders to ramp up CCEA action. Progress has been made in esta ... more

Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan: protection and performance

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This thematic brief accompanies the Working for Health 2022–2030 Action Plan, serving as a rationale to the related actions of the Working for Health progression model (see Annex). The brief aims to inform Member States, non-state actors and other users of the Action Plan to guide action on inves ... more

Clinical management of COVID-19: living guideline, 13 January 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

As of 12 December 2022, over 645 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with over 6.6 million deaths (4). The Omicron variant, which emerged in late November 2021, and its subvariants, are now the dominant circulating viruses, contributing to the ongoing surge in several countr ... more

ACF – Sierra Leone Case Study: Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME) - Trigger Behavioural Change to strengthen community’s resilience to Ebola Outbreaks

Action contre le Faim (2015)

UN Women Humanitarian Strategy (2022–2025) In Brief

UN Women (2023) CC

This publication provides an overview of UN Women’s commitments to the humanitarian community guided by the “UN Women strategic plan 2022–2025”. It highlights areas where UN Women has a unique advantage in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across the humanitari ... more

Guidelines for Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Indian Council of Medical Research (2022) CC2

The ICMR type 1 diabetes guidelines come at a time when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disproportionately affected people with diabetes population, exposing them to a high risk for severe illness and mortality. Globally, diabetes was responsible for over fourmillion deaths in the year 2019. It was th ... more

Addressing the Needs of Women Affected by Armed Conflict

Charlotte Lindsey-Curtet, Florence Tercier Holst-Roness and Letitia Anderson ICRC (2004)

An ICRC Guidance Document

Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings

World Health Organization WHO (2013) CC

Effective implementation of WHO PEN, combined with other very cost effective population-wide interventions, will help even resource constrained settings to attain the global voluntary targets related to reduction of premature mortality and preventionof heart attacks and strokes.

First meeting of the network on Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region Centre Pasteur du Cameroon, Yaoundé, 21–24 October 2019

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2020) CC

Research to develop point-of-care tests is in progress. Treatment of Buruli ulcer comprises 8 weeks of combined antibiotics (rifampicin and clarithromycin). Complementary therapies such as wound care, skin graft and prevention of disability are needed in some cases to ensure full recovery. The targ ... more

For Proper Disposal Hospital Waste

Jorge Emmanuel and Ruth Stringer Health Care Without Harm (2007)

A Global Inventory of Alternative Medical Waste Treatment Technologies

Screening for Type 2 Diabetes

WHO WHO (2003)

Report of a World Health Organization and International Diabetes Federation meeting