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National Disability Mainstreaming Strategy and Implementation Plan (NDMS&IP) 2018-2023

Department of Disability and elderly affairs Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare (2019) CC

The NDMS&IP focuses on mainstreaming disability to promote equitable access to services in the six thematic areas of health, education, livelihoods, empowerment, and social inclusion and cross-cutting issues. The first part of the NDMS&IP outlines incongruences between national and sectoral policie... more

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Global Biodiversity Outlook 5

Convention on Biological Diversity (2020) C2

Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention. GBO-5 provi... more

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Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 - arabic version

Convention on Biological Diversity (2020) C2

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Students’ Toolkit on Social Accountability in Medical Schools - Trainer’s handout

nternational Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA); Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) (2017) C1

Below you can find a sampleoutline of a training that you couldadapt to your time frameand audience on Social Accountability in Medical Schools.The completesample trainingwould last around3hours. The suggested number of participants is 20.The accompanying slides are in a separate Powerpoint document... more

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Students' Toolkit: Social accountability in medical schools

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA); Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) (2017) C2

This toolkit aims to provide you with a brief introduction of what SA and its core principles are, and how you as a student can apply several of the existing tools for your own school to really make a difference. French, Spanish and Arabic Version available: https://ifmsa.org/social-acc... more

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Students’ Toolkit on Social Accountability in Medical Schools - assessment form

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA); Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) (2017) C1

A quick assessment sheet, which would allow to know the Social Accountability score of your medical school or medical students’ association. This assessment tool is part of the IFMSA/THEnet Students’ Toolkit on Social Accountability in Medical Schools. Find the full toolkit, the explanatory tabl... more

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Multilateral Leaders Task Force on COVID-19

The International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, et al. (2021) CC

These organisations have joined forces to accelerate access to COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics by leveraging multilateral finance and trade solutions, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. The aim is to vaccinate at least 40 percent of people in every country by the end... more

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Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths: A Framework for Action in a Changing World 2023-2030

US Agency for International Development USAID (2023) CC

Improving the survival chances and quality of life of women, newborns, and children remains an urgent global challenge. Since 2012, substantial progress has been made in reducing maternal and under-5 deaths, and a only handful of countries are on target to meet the SDG targets in 2030. Yet, 5 millio... more

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Solidarity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Rahman-Shepherd, A.; C. Clift; E. Ross; et al. The Chatham House (2021) CC

Has the world worked together to tackle the coronavirus? July 2021. This research paper assesses how the global community has responded to calls for greater solidarity in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, and presents the insights of key stakeholders and experts in global health governance, health sec... more

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Break COVID Now: The Gavi COVAX AMC Investment Opportunity

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2022) CC

In April 2020, Gavi and COVAX joined the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) to provide equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines to tackle the pandemic. In June 2020, the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) was launched to finance equitable access in 92 lower-income countries. Si... more

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Medical Ethics and Bedside Rationing in Low‐Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

Kapiriri, L. ResearchGate (2017) CC

Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives There’s evidence that implementing the four medical ethics principles may be challenging especially in low income country contexts with extreme resource scarcity and limited capacity to facilitate deliberations on the different ethical dilemmas.... more

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Equity of resource flows for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: are those most in need being left behind?

Martinez-Alvarez, M.; F. Federspiel; N. Singh et al. British Medical Journal (BMJ) (2020) CC

Since 2002 the distribution of external funding to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) has become more equitable and better targeted at the poorest countries and those experiencing the highest mortality. The aid envelope is not large enough or well enough concentrated to close ... more

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Global child and adolescent mental health: The orphan of development assistance for health

Lu C., Li Z.; Patel V. PLOS Medecine (2018) CC

More than 40% of the world population is 24 years old or younger, the vast majority of whom live in low- and lower middle–income countries. Globally, a quarter of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for mental disorders and substance abuse is borne by this age group and about 75% of mental diso... more

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Global health ethics: key issues

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

This document aims to assist policy‑makers, health care providers and researchers to understand key concepts in health ethics and to identify basic ethical questions surrounding health and health care. It illustrates the challenges of applying ethical principles to global public health and outline... more

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Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, 2016-2030
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Flavia Bustreo, Shyama Kuruvilla, Marleen Temmerman et al Every Woman Every Child (2015) C_WHO

The new Global Strategy aims to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents, transform the future and ensure that every newborn, mother and child not only survives, but thrives.