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Diabetes in the South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2016) C_WHO

Special issue: WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health -Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2016.This special This issue contains a rich collection of articles, demonstrating the encouraging scientific momentum to address the growing burden of diabetes in the region

Humanitarian Action for Children 2022 - Syrian refugees

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

Not just hotlines and mobile phones: GBV Service provision during COVID-19

Erskine D. UNICEF (2020) CC

This note provides a few ideas to a challenging problem of reaching survivors who cannot easily access phone-based GBV support. It is very much a living document given the evolving nature of the pandemic and may be adapted as more evidence, insights and lessons become available. It is intended to sp ... more

Trauma symptoms in children after the tsunami

Gunaratne, C., Kremer, P.J., Lewis, A.J. & Clarke, V. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health (2013) CC

Limited research has examined factors associated with psychological distress following natural disasters among non-Western child populations. Conditions associated with trauma-related symptoms following the 2004 tsunami in a sample of 265 Sri Lankan child survivors (53.6% female, aged 3 to 17) were ... more

Strategic guidelines to promote the adoption of hand hygiene in schools

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

Concepte Note, June 2022

Whole of Syria Joint Statement: Protecting Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition during the Earthquake response in Syria (12th of February 2023)

Nutrition Cluster; Save the Children; United Nation Children's Fund; World Health Organization (2023) CC

UNICEF, WHO Whole of Syria Nutrition, Cluster, the Global Nutrition Cluster, the IFE Core Group, and partners call for ALL involved in the response to the earthquakes in Syria to protect, promote, and support the feeding and care of infants and young children, their caregivers, especially pregnant, ... more

Engaging Private Security Providers - A Guideline for Non-Governmental Organisations

Max Glaser, European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2011) C2

Humanitarian NGOs have made increased use of Private Security Providers (PSPs) over the last decade. There is a gap between the ways that NGOs actually use PSPs and the regulation of this engagement. These guidelines aim to assist humanitarian NGOs in reaching an informed decision about when, how an ... more

Estimated Burden of Serious Fungal Infections in Mozambique

Jahit S, David WD (2018) C1

With this study, we estimated the burden of serious fungal infections for the general healthy population and for those at risk, including those infected with HIV, patients with asthma, as well as those under intensive care. We also highlight from studies in progress of high incidences of histoplasm ... more

Liberia Multi-sector Assessement

ACAPS; ENAP Ebola Needs Analaysis Project (2015)

Ghosts and Germs: Cerebral Palsy in Nepal - A preliminary exploration of cosmology and disability

Saul, R. and D. Philipps (1999) C1

Chapter 13 in Stone, E. (ed.) 1999: Disability and Development: Learning from action and research on disability in the majority world, Leeds: The Disability Press pp. 210-227

Vaccine crisis communication manual: step-by-step guidance for national immunization programmes

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2022) CC

Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-engineered Construction

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2013)

Ethical considerations in HIV prevention trials

World Health Organization WHO; UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

UNAIDS and the World Health Organization have published this updated guidance on ethical considerations in HIV prevention trials. The new guidance is the result of a year-long process that saw more than 80 experts and members of the public give inputs and is published 21 years after the first editio ... more

Hospital Safe from Disasters

ISDR; World Health Organization WHO; The World Bank United Nations (2008) CC

Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives

Continuing care during COVID-19: adopting lifesaving approaches to treat acute malnutrition

International Rescue Committee (2020) C2

The risk of increasing rates of acute malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need to adapt, and expand access to, acute malnutrition diagnosis and treatment services in humanitarian and fragile contexts.

Regional strategic preparedness and response plan Covid-19: West and Central Africa

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C2

How to respond to Covid19 pandemic in West and Central Africa

Ebola Virus Disease: Personal Protective Equipment, UNICEF Specifications (March 2015)

UNICEF (2015)

UNICEF provides a detailed update and list of Ebola virus disease personal protective equipment technical specifications for use in high- and low-risk settings. It includes barriers for full body protection, as well as the head, nose, mouth, eyes, hands and feet. In selecting the right PPE specifica ... more

Interim Guidance Document on Cholera Surveillance

Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) World Health Organisation WHO (2017) C_WHO

The objective of this guidance document is to support the public health professionals in implementing effective surveillance of cholera in at-risk, endemic and epidemic areas. This document has been developed by the Surveillance Working Group of the Global Task Force for Cholera Control (GTFCC) a ... more

Projected Health Financing Transitions: Timeline and Magnitude

Rachel Silverman Center for Global Development (2018) C2