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WHO: 10 facts on disability

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

People with disabilities are among the most marginalized groups in the world. People with disabilities have poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements, less economic participation and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.

The Right of Children with Disabilities to Education: A Rights-Based Approach to Inclusive Education

UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEECI) (2012)

Parents, Family and Community Participation in Inclusive Education. Webinar 13. Companion Technical Booklet

Meresman, S. UNICEF (2014)

Fever Diagnostic Technology Landscape
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UNITAID World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

1st edition. Unitaid’s report describes a slate of new devices that can more efficiently identify dangerously ill children so that they can be treated immediately. These tools make it easier to recognize danger signs, and support integrated approaches to reducing childhood deaths from the three ... more

Countering the stigmatisation and discrimination of people with mental health problems in Europe

McDaid, D. ealth and Living Conditions Network of the European Observatory (2019) C2

Research Paper, Accessed April 10,2019

Leitfaden für sozialverträgliche Verwertung: Forschungsergebnisse für möglichst viele Menschen nutzbar machen

BUKO Pharma-KampagneGesundheit und Dritte Welt e.V. (2018) CC

Diese Broschüre möchte dazu beitragen, dass möglichst viele Menschen die Ergebnisse öffentlich finanzierter Forschung nutzen können.

Standard Administrative and Operating Procedures (SAOP) Part 1 - Democratic Republic of the Congo, 01 January 2021

Logistics Cluster World Food Programme WFP (2021) C1

Aviation plays an important role in humanitarian operations around the world, especially in countries where overland transport is difficult or impossible due to insecurity, damaged or inadequate infrastructure, and challenging climatic conditions. Aviation allows the transport of humanitarian aid wo ... more

African Union Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance Control 2020–2025
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization WHO, et al. (2021) CC

Reports of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) microorganisms are increasing globally, threatening to render existing treatments ineffective against many infectious diseases. In Africa, AMR has already been documented to be a problem for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the pathogens that cause mala ... more

Evidence Paper : no education, no protection

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Network for Education (2021) CC

What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in crisis-affected contexts

Health in all Policies - A guide for State and Local Governments

Linda Rudolf, Julian Caplan et al Public Health Institute (2021) CC

Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments was created by the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Public Health, and the American Public Health Association in response to growing interest in using collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedd ... more

Consequences of COVID-19 crisis for persons with HIV: the impact of social determinants of health

Waterfeld, K.C.; et al. (2021) CC

BMC Public Health (2021) 21:299 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10296-9

New hope for leishmaniasis

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi (2022) CC

Leishmaniasis is a climate-sensitive disease. Changes in temperature, rainfall, and humidity can have strong impacts on the sandfly vector, altering their distribution and influencing their survival and population sizes. Increased temperatures shorten vector development time, reduce Leishmania para ... more

Guide for the Medical, Veterinary and allied Professions

Bishop, G.; Durrheim, D.; Kloeck, P. Department: Agriculture, Foresty and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa (2010) CC

Rabies is a disease of animals but too often the outcome is gauged in terms of human suffering and death. Despite this, in areas of the world where rabies is endemic there is often a lack of communication between veterinary and medical professionals, to the extent that the disease continues to thri ... more

Self-care competency framework: volume 1: global competency standards for health and care workers to support people’s self-care

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The standards define 10 key competencies for health and care workers to support self-care in their clinical practice as well as the specific, measurable behaviours that demonstrate those competencies, focusing on people-centredness; decision-making; effective communication; collaboration; evidence-i ... more

Diabetes prevention, screening and management - A handbook for pharmacists

International Pharmaceutical Federation (2021) CC2

Diabetes is a significant public health issue that affects approximately one in 10 adults globally, with type 2 diabetes accounting for 90–95% of cases. This chronic condition causes considerable morbidity and mortality and is growing in impact, with cases projected to rise from 537 million in 202 ... more

Operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities, 3rd ed

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) is a crucial component of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s End TB Strategy. This WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities aims to support countries in scaling up people-centred care, ... more

WHO standard: universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn ... more

Health as the pulse of the new urban agenda

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

This report considers how to integrate health into urban planning, investments, and policy decisions, so as to support the implementation and achievement of the goals and objectives of the New Urban Agenda.

Climate change and Disaster Management

World Bank (2017) C1

- Pacific Possible Background Paper No.6

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

African Union, African CDC, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Six months in, the indirect impacts of COVID-19 take a toll on health, social and economic outcomes.