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APCA Atlas of Palliative Care Africa

Rhee, J.Y.; et al. African Palliative Care Association (2020) C_WHO

The APCA Atlas provides the most up-to-date information of palliative care development in nearly all countries in Africa, using indicators derived, rated, and chosen by in-country African experts followed by a thorough Delphi consensus process with a panel of international experts on palliative care ... more

Plan national de devloppement sanitaire 2009-2018

Ministère de la santé et de la prévention - Republique Sénégal (2009) C2

Le présent Plan National de Développement Sanitaire (PNDS) couvre la période 2009-2018. Il s’inscrit dans la perspective de l’accélération de la mise en œuvre des différents programmes de prévention et d’offres de services de santé. Son objectif est de contribuer à l’atteinte des o ... more

Guidelines for the use of non-pharmaceutical measures to delay and mitigate the impact of 2019-nCoV

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2020) C1

This document provides guidance on the application of non-pharmaceutical countermeasures to minimise the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the population. Some of the measures proposed refer specifically to certain phases of the epidemic (containment or mitigation phases), and can ... more

RCCE Action Plan Guidance COVID-19 Preparedness and Response
recommended

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; IFRC (2020) C_WHO

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is an essential component of your health emergency preparedness and response action plan. This tool is designed to support risk communication, community engagement staff and responders working with national health authorities, and other partners to ... more

Tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS in the German ClinSurv HIV Cohort: long-term incidence and risk factors

B. Karo; W. Haas; C. Kollan; et al. BMC Infectious Diseases (2014) CC

Research Article Karo et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14:148 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/148

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crises - April–December 2020

OCHA; Reliefweb; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020) C2

FAO’s component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan 18.5.2020

COVID-19 and the Displaced:Addressing the Threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Humanitarian Emergencies

Refugees International (2020) C1

Novel coronavirus will disproportionately impact world’s 70 million displaced people Report recommends stopping asylum seeker deportations, prioritising hygiene and refugee camp decongestion, better communication Displaced people must be included in prevention, mitigation efforts - for s ... more

Emergency Appeal - Kenya April - September 2020

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Humanitarian Response et al. (2020) C2

Kenya reported its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020 and, as at 7 April 2020, 172 cases had been confirmed and 6 deaths reported. The Government of Kenya has taken a number of measures to curb the spread of the virus, including implementing a curfew, restricting movement out and into four coun ... more

Technical Note on Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (2020) CC

This is the first version of the INEE technical guideline to support education during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a living document that will be regularly updated to meet the learning and well-being needs of children, adolescents, youth, teachers, caregivers and other education personnel affected b ... more

Interim Guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2020) C1

This Interim Guidance outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The recommendations outlined here need to be adjusted to the scale of transmission, co ... more

Lettre encyclique laudato si'du Saint-Père Francois sur la suvegarde de la maison commune

Holy Father Francis Vatican Press (2015) C2

Lettre du Saint-Pére Francois

Oxygénothérapie pour les enfants : manuel à l’usage des agents de santé

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2017) C2

Antigen-detection in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Interim guidance, 6 October 2021 Direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins (antigens) in nasal swabs and other respiratory secretions using lateral flow immunoassays (also known as rapid diagnostic tests, RDTs) offers a faster and less expensive method to test for SARS-CoV-2 than the reference ... more

Human Cost of Disasters

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR (2020) C1

he statistics in this report are from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) which records disasters which have killed ten or more people; affected 100 or more people; resulted in a declared state of emergency; or a call f ... more

Monitoring and restricting digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

The WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases organized an expert meeting on monitoring of digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents in June 2018. Based on that meeting, this report aims to provide a tool to support Member States in moni ... more

The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy

Oxfam (2021) C1

Oxfam’s report found that Covid-19 has the potential to increase economic inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began over a century ago. It sets out how a rigged economy is enabling a super-rich elite to amass wealth in the middle of the worst ... more

Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: using data to find a balance part III

African Union, African CDC, World Health Organisation (2021) C_WHO

12 May 2021. This third survey in the series shows that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact societies, not only in terms of health, but also social and economic conditions and day-to-day life

Consideraciones para aplicar y ajustar medidas de salud pública y sociales en el contexto de la COVID-19
recommended

Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS (2021) C_WHO

orientaciones provisionales, 14 de junio de 2021

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education

Meike J. Schleif, Iain Aitken , et al. Health Research Policy and Systems (2021) CC

This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have expanded in recent years to encompass a wider array of services to numerous subpopulations, engage communities to collaborate with and to ... more

Data Intervention Training Participant Workbook Safe Surgery 2020

Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia (2018) CC

Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS)