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We need to talk

Translators without Borders (2019) CC

Effective Ebola risk communication requires respect and transparency and remains as vital as ever. An assessment of changing communication needs and preferences in Beni, North Kivu. In the second year of the current Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), people at ris... more

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Framework for collaborative action on tuberculosis and comorbidities

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for TB is a crucial component of Pillar one of the End TB Strategy, which focuses on integrated patient-centred care and prevention, including action on TB and comorbidities. The Framework for collaborative action on TB and comorbidities aims to support coun... more

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Newborn Care. A Learning Programme for Professionals

Perinatal Education Programme EBW Healthcare (2017) CC

Managing normal and high-risk infants in the newborn nursery

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Toward Resilience
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Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte L. Sterrett, and Amy Hilleboe Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Catholic Relief Services (2013) C1

A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Hypertension

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2023) C_WHO

Hypertension is the main risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. Each year 1.6 million deaths befall from cardiovascular disease in the region of the Americas, of which about half a million occur in people under age 70, which is considered premature and preventable death. Hypertension aff... more

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Refugee children hard hit by coronavirus school closures

UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

“There’s a big risk that inequalities in education will widen,” said Rebecca Telford, education chief for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She noted that while many countries have acted quickly to roll out distance learning programmes, there have been few targeted interventions to ensure they are... more

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Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)

U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018) C2

The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) fulfills that mandate in two volumes. This report, Volume II, draws on the foundational science described in Volume I, the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).2 Volume II focuses on the human welfare, societal, and environmental elements of climate cha... more

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Survey Tool and Guidance: Rapid, simple, flexible behavioural insights on COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This document provides guidance to Member States in the WHO European Region that wish to conduct behavioural insights studies related to COVID-19. Studies can be used to monitor public knowledge, risk perceptions, behaviours and trust with the overall aim to inform national COVID-19 outbreak respons... more

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Operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities, 3rd ed

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) is a crucial component of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s End TB Strategy. This WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities aims to support countries in scaling up people-centred care, ... more

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War driving cholera in Syria

Devi, S. The Lancet (2022) C1

World Report on the risk of cholera outbreak in Syria due to deteriorated drinking water systems as side effect of war. Published:September 24, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01836-0

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10 promising practices from the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in Europe

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2023) CC

UNHCR invested significantly in risk mitigation, prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in the Europe region in 2022-2023, in particular in connection with the Ukraine emergency, where the risks were considered high due to the unprecedented scale and speed of displacement, mo... more

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8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer

Siteman Cancer Center Locations (2021) C1

Breast cancer. Just reading those words can make many women worry. And that’s natural. Nearly everyone knows someone touched by the disease. But there is a lot of good news about breast cancer these days. Treatments keep getting better, and we know more than ever about ways to prevent the disease... more

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Yemen Food Security Alert: February 16, 2018

Famine Early Warning System Network (2018) C1

Yemen faces a risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5) given the potential for the recent blockade to resume and drastically limit crucial imports over a prolonged period. A blockade starting in November 2017 severely restricted imports of essential goods, and the temporary re-opening of key ports is set to exp... more

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Education and Community Engagement is integral to our mass Vaccination Projects

Mission Rabies (2023) CC

Children are at high risk of dog bites and contracting rabies. Forty percent of reported rabies cases worldwide are children under the age of fifteen. In our project areas, the proportion of children dying is often even higher. Rabies most often persists in poor communities and rural regions of deve... more

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Healthy environments for healthier populations: why do they matter and what can we do?

World Health Organisation WHO (2019) C_WHO

Known avoidable environmental risks to health cause at least 12.6 million deaths every year, and account for about one quarter of the global burden of disease (2016 data) (1). Air pollution alone causes about 7 million deaths a year, placing it among the top global risks to health (2). Global envir... more