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Education, Social Restrictions, and Justice in Taliban-Held Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2021) CC

On February 29, 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement outlining a phased withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban commitments not to allow attacks on the US or its allies from Afghan territory. The troop withdrawal is expected to take place in parallel w ... more

Mental Health Care In Settings Where Mental Health Resources Are Limited

Smith, Pamela (2014) CC

An Easy-Reference Guidebook for Healthcare Providers In Developed and Developing Countries

European nurse: Information and communication guide on microbes

European specialist nurse organisation (ESN) (2020) C2

This manual addresses all the issues. It focus on the cycle of microbes, antibiotics, vaccination, AMR, infection prevention and control. It will support nurses on better action and also on communication towards their patients and families.

Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2020) C2

Afghanistan has one of the largest populations per capita of persons with disabilities in the world. At least one in five Afghan households includes an adult or child with a serious physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychosocial disability. More than 40 years of war have left more than one million ... more

Multi-Sector Initial Rapid Assessment Guidance, Revision July 2015

IASC Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2015)

The Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) is a joint needs assessment tool that can be used in sudden onset emergencies, including IASC System-Wide Level 3 Emergency Responses (L3 Responses).

WHO malaria terminology, 2021 update

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This updated glossary for malaria aims to improve communication and mutual understanding within the scientific community, as well as with funding agencies, public health officials responsible for malaria programmes, and policy-makers in malaria-endemic countries

Fair Trade and Catholic Social Teaching

CRS Fair Trade (2014) C1

Antimicrobial stewardship programmes in health-care facilities in low- and middle-income countries. A WHO practical toolkit

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Stewardship is defined as “the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care”. It was originally applied in the health-care setting as a tool for optimizing antimicrobial use, termed “antimicrobial stewardship” (AMS). Stewardship has since be ... more

Monitoring & Evaluation: Minimum Standards and Guidelines

Norwegian Refugee Council (2017) C1

Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2003) C_WHO

Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems

Belkum, A.van, T. T. Bachmann, G. Lüdke, et al. (2019) CC

Nature Reviews Microbiology Vol. 17 (2019)pp.51-62 Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) technologies help to accelerate the initiation of targeted antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections and could potentially extend the lifespan of current narrow- spectrum antimicrobials. Althoug ... more

Central African Republic: Persons with Disabilities Left Behind

Human Rights Watch (2015) C1

Manual for Indoor Residual Spraying in Urban Areas for Aedes aegypti Control

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2019) C1

The Manual for Indoor Residual Spraying in Urban Areas for Aedes aegypti Control is intended not only for operational personnel and middle and senior management of programs responsible for the prevention and control of Aedes-borne diseases, but also for the academic community involved in Aedes resea ... more

Report on antimalarial drug efficacy, resistance and response: 10 years of surveillance (2010-2019)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Antimalarial drug resistance has emerged as a threat to global malaria control efforts, particularly in the Greater Mekong subregion. Drawing on data collected through more than 1000 therapeutic efficacy studies as well as molecular marker studies of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance, the Report ... more

Artemisinin resistance and artemisinin-based combination therapy efficacy

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

The reports bring together the latest findings and conclusions about the state of resistance to artemisinins and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), summarize WHO’s current policy and treatment recommendations, and highlight areas of concern.

Unaccompanied Minors in Germany - Reception, return and integration arrangements

German National Contact Point EMN (2009) CC

The processes and procedures that are applied upon the entry into Germany of unaccompanied minors, do not always follow any one precisely prescribed model that remains consistent throughout Germany. Apart from the asylum procedure and some aspects of border control, the reception of UNAMs is a re ... more

Fundamental Facts about mental health 2016

Mental Health Foundation (2016) CC

A comprehensive summary of mental health research, providing a unique handbook of key facts and figures, covering all key areas of mental health

Atlas - Child and adolescent mental health resources

World Health Organization; International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; World Psychiatric Association (2005) C_WHO

Global concerns: Implications for the future Child Mental Health Atlas

Praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis during human pregnancy

Friedman, J.F. (2018) CC

In 2014, an estimated 40 million women of reproductive age were infected with Schistosoma haematobium, S. japonicum and/or S. mansoni. In both 2003 and 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that all schistosome-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women be offered treatment, with praz ... more