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COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plan: operational planning guideline: 1 February 2021 to 31 January 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

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Soins pour les filles et les femmes vivant avec des mutilations sexuelles féminines : manuel clinique

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2018) C_WHO

Manuel

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Caderno de ações para a vigilância e assistência à saúde das condições pós-covid no âmbito do ministério da saúde

Ministério da Saúde, Brasil (2022) C1

April 2022

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The Evolution of Official Development Assistance

Hynes W.; Scott S. OECD (2013) CC

The definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has for 40 years been the global standard for measuring donor efforts in supporting development co-operation objectives. It has provided the yardstick for documenting the volume and the terms of the concessional resources provided, assessing do... more

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Matière de Santé Reproductive: Priorités stratégiques 2022-2026

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2023) CC

En 2006, la session extraordinaire des ministres de la Santé de l’Union africaine a adopté le Plan d’action de Maputo pour la mise en œuvre du cadre politique continental sur la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs (SDSR), qui a expiré fin 2015. L’objectif était que toutes les pa... more

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Safety in administering medicines for neglected tropical diseases
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This manual summarizes key issues related to the safety of NTD medicines and their administration, with a focus on essential medicines used in mass drug administration (MDA), also called preventive chemotherapy. It can be used as a standalone reference manual, but is intended to be used in conjuncti... more

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Quality and safety practices for malaria rapid testing services

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This document is a guide defining requirements for quality and safety for malaria rapid diagnostic testing services to safeguard the quality of the results, the safety of the operators and patients and that of the environment for use by national malaria control programmes, regulators, implementers a... more

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Improving paediatric TB care in Tajikistan

Medécins sans Frontières MSF; Minsitry of Health (2013) C1

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Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy
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World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

The Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy provide state-of-the-art knowledge and evidence on leprosy diagnosis, treatment and prevention based on a public health approach in endemic countries. The target audience of this document includes policy-makers in leprosy or infec... more

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Diagnostic methods for the control of strongyloidiasis, Virtual meeting, 29 September 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

23 March 2021 The meeting addressed the last key area, that is, determining the best method or combination of diagnostic methods for a control programme for S. stercoralis infections in humans. Dr Montresor’s presentation highlighted that while there is currently no “gold standard” for the... more

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Specialised Assessment and Treatment for Post-disaster Psychiatric Morbidity: Level 3 Interventions

NSW Health and University of Western Sydney (2017) CC

NSW Disaster Mental Health Handbook 5 The Disaster Mental Health Manual and associated handbooks are intended as a resource for mental health staff who are seeking background information and practical guidance and resources to assist in a disaster mental health response.

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Communicable Diseases Control in Emergencies
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Connolly, M.A. World Health Organization WHO (2005) C_WHO

A field manual

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Good Practices for Selecting and Procuring Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

WHO (2011) C_WHO

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Field-friendly Guide to Integrate Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (2005) C1

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Vitamin A supplementation in infants and children 6–59 months of age

World Health Organization World Health Organization (2011)

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National Guidelines For the Management of HIV and AIDS
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania (2015) CC

5th edition.

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Doublement étranger - La démence en contexte migratoire à la lumière de cas particuliers dans la communauté italienne

Christa Hanetseder Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz (2013) C1

Brochure à l’intention des professionnels des structures de soins ambulatoires ou institutionnels et du travail social auprès des malades et de leurs proches.