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Screening donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections: recommendations

World Health Organization (WHO) (2009) C_WHO

The provision of safe and efficacious blood and blood components for transfusion or manufacturing use involves a number of processes, from the selection of blood donors and the collection, processing and testing of blood donations to the testing of patient samples, the issue of compatible blood and ... more

Keeping the 100-year-old promise: making insulin access universal

WHO (2021) C_WHO

High prices, hard-to-access human insulin, few insulin producers, and weak health systems are just some of the barriers that people with diabetes face a century after insulin was discovered, WHO notes in a new report

Surveillance, prevention and control of leishmaniases in the European Union and its neighbouring countries

European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) (2022) C_CDC

This technical report presents the epidemiology of human and animal leishmaniases in the EU and its neighbouring countries and concludes that the disease remains widespread and underreported in many countries of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East and that there is a need to improv ... more

Living Planet Report 2020 - Bending the curve of biodiversity loss

World Wildlife Fund for Nature WWF (2020) C2

At a time when the world is reeling from the deepest global disruption and health crisis of a lifetime, this year’s Living Planet report provides unequivocal and alarming evidence that nature is unraveling and that our planet is flashing red warning signs of vital natural systems failure. The ... more

Personal protective equipment for use in a filovirus disease outbreak
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Rapid Advice Guideline

Operational principles for good pharmaceutical procurement

WHO (1999) C_WHO

This document introduces four strategic objectives and twelve operational principles for good pharmaceutical procurement. These objectives and principles have been developed and endorsed by the Interagency Pharmaceutical Coordination Group (IPC), involving the pharmaceutical advisers of the United ... more

Managment of Tuberculosis Training Health Facility Staff. Part A

World Health Organization,et al. (2010) C_WHO

Second Edition

Guidelines on the provision of Manual Wheelchairs in less resourced settings

World Health Organization; USAID; ISPO (2008) C_WHO

Infant and young child feeding

World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO

Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals

Integrating severe acute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan

Emily Keane, Andrea King, Anthony Awira et al. Malaria Consortium South Sudan (2013) C1

Since December 2010, Malaria Consortium has been implementing an innovative approach to community management of severe acute malnutrition, together with an existing integrated community case management (ICCM) programme in South Sudan. This learning paper considers Malaria Consortiums experience of t ... more

Humanitarian Needs Assessment: The Good Enough Guide
recommended

Currion, P. The Assessment Capacities Project and Emergency Capacity Building Project (2014) C2

Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organisations need to improve how they do assessments. The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and the Emergency Capa ... more

Crisis Emergency Risk Communication. Manual
recommended

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC; US Dept. of Health and Human Services (2018) C_CDC

The CERC manual provides an evidence-based framework and recommended practices for anyone who communicates on behalf of an organization responding to major emergencies such as natural disasters.

Impact Evaluation Notes No.2 - Linking Monitoring And Evaluation To Impact Evaluation

Burt Perrin InterAction, The Rockefeller Foundation (2012) C3

This is the second guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This second guidance note, Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation, illustrates the relationship between routine ... more

WHO Treatment Guidelines for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, 2016 Update
recommended

Dennis Falzon, Elizabeth Harausz, Ernesto Jaramillo et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Surveys in Child Protection (Arabic version)

The Child Protection Initiative, Save the Children (2012) C2

A step-by-step guide for child protection programmes to the design and implementation of KAP survey methods.

India: Guide to Supervsion, Monitoring and Evaluation of TB HIV Collaborative Activities

National AIDSControl (NACO), Government of India; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2016) C1

Maternal and Neonatal Health Update. Training directory and reference guide. (Nepali Version).

Ministry of Health and Population, Health service Department. Government of Nepal (2010) C1

Maternal and Neonatal health update: by the Nepal government, Health and population ministry, Health protection unit, Family health department, created in 2010 (English) 2067 (Nepali). Compiled together by: UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, NHSSP, Nepal medical college hospital and other government health departm ... more

Prevention and Control of Cholera Uganda
recommended

Ministry of Health Uganda, Control of Diarrheal Diseases (2017) C1

Operational Guidelines for the national and district health workers & planners. These new approaches include use of selective chemotherapy, Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs), Zinc for treatment of cholera in children and complementary use of OCV