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Ebola Virus Disease Readiness Implementation Progress Report WCO Uganda August –October 2018

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2019) C_WHO

Risk of spill-over of EVD to Uganda has been categorised as very high. On 28 September 2018, WHO elevated the risk at the regional level which includes Uganda from ‘high’ to ‘very high’. Uganda has a very long and largely porous border with the DRC. High population movements across the borde ... more

Philippine Action Plan to Combat AMR: One Health Approach

Phillipine Department of Health (2019) C_WHO

Antibiotics have been useful in fighting infectious diseases in our country for decades, but because of the overuse and misuse of these agents, an increasing number of organisms are now resistant to them. The Philippines, like other Southeast Asian countries, has already been encountering the many c ... more

United Nations COVID-19 Emergency Appeal Zambia (May - October 2020)

OCHA; UNCT Zambia (2020) C2

The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 18th March 2020. As of April 27th, 2020, there were 89 confirmed cases, three deaths and 42 recoveries. Confirmed cases are located in three provinces: Lusaka (83 cases), Copperbelt province (5 cases) and Central ... more

Phòng lây nhiễm Vi-rút Corona

See text (2020) C2

Infection preventions Hygiene

Populations at risk: Implications of COVID-19 for hunger, migration and displacement, November 2020

International Organization for Migration IOM; World Food Programme WFP (2020) C1

The report – the first of its kind – shows how the pandemic has driven up food insecurity and increased vulnerability among migrants, families reliant on remittances and communities forced from their homes by conflict, violence and disasters. The two UN agencies warn the social and economic ... more

Engaging Communities during a Pandemic: Experiences of Community Engagement during the COVID-19 Response in Camps and Out-of-Camp Settings

Norwegian Refugee Council NRC (2020) C1

This report presents examples from different agencies on how they approached community engagement in their Covid-19 responses, the tools and methodologies used, as well as the challenges they encountered and how they attempted to overcome these. It discusses what community engagement means to the va ... more

Technical considerations for implementing a risk-based approach to international travel in the context of COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Interim guidanceAnnex to: Policy considerations for implementing a risk-based approach to international travel in the context of COVID-19, 2 July 2021

Patient Safety Incident Reporting and Learning Systems - Technical report and guidance

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Against this background of nearly 20 years of experience of research, development and improvement in patient safety, the role of incident and adverse event reporting, as well as the benefits that derive from it, is still a work in progress.This document has two main purposes: • to provide an up ... more

Global Report on traditional and complementary medicine 2019

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Communication Strategy 2021 update (EYE- elimination yellow fever)

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The EYE communication strategy is intended for use by all EYE partners and respective communication teams, as well as regional and country colleagues who will need to communicate about the work of EYE. It will also be publicly available for others, such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and p ... more

Reclaim the Gains - The Case for Investing in the Global Financing Facility 2021–2025

Global Financing Facility (GFF) Global Financing Facility (GFF) (2021) CC

The GFF needs an additional US$2.5 billion from 2021 to 2025 to enable countries to protect health gains and accelerate progress toward the 2030 Goals. Of this amount, the GFF urgently needs to secure new pledges of US$1.2 billion by the end of 2021 to help its current 36 partner countries protect ... more

HIV and AIDS in Latin America the Caribbean regional overview

AVERT (2018) C2

WHO report on cancer: setting priorities, investing wisely and providing care for all

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C1

Ramped-up cancer services could save 7 million lives over the next decade—and addressing huge service gaps between rich and poor countries is key to success, according to this report. In 2019, over 90% of high-income countries reported that comprehensive cancer treatment services were available ... more

Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness

USAID; MCHIP (2014) CC

Documentation of Best Practices and Bottlenecks to Program Implementation in Senegal SUMMARY REPORT Accessed at March 2014

Clinical Management and Referral Guidelines – Volume III: Clinical Guidelines for Management and Referral of Common Conditions at Levels 4–6: Hospitals (Republic of Kenya)

Ministry of Medical Services, Kenya; Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation (2009) C1

WHO recommendations on health promotion interventions for maternal and newborn health

Anayda Portela, Helen Smith, Cicely Marston World Health Organization (WHO) (2015)

The primary audience for the guideline is health programme managers, including governmental and non-governmental organizations, and policy makers who are responsible for designing maternal, newborn and child health programmes, primarily in low-income settings. The guideline is also aimed at health p ... more

Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception

World Health Organization (2015)

Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability ... more

Using the Sphere Standards in Urban Settings

Ben Mountfield The Sphere Project (2016)

Fills a gap in current guidance on how to implement humanitarian standards in urban situations. In Arabic, English, French and Spanish available

India: A World Where We Matter!

National Coordination Committee, Jan Swasthya Sabha (2000) C1

Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -4

Diagnostic profiles and predictors of treatment outcome among children and adolescents attending a national psychiatric hospital in Botswana

A. A. Olashore; B. Frank‐Hatitchki: O. Ogunwobi BioMed Central; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (2017) CC

Olashore et al. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health (2017) 11:8 DOI 10.1186/s13034-017-0144-9