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Guidelines for Developing Emergency Simulations and Drills

Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas (2011) C_WHO

Conducting simulations and drills is the most effective way to evaluate and test disaster preparedness plans; these exercises are used widely by organizations and institutions working in development and in disaster response. Drills and simulations are also excellent tools for training, and for asses ... more

Preventing and responding to an HIV-related human rights crisis — Guidance for United Nations agencies and programmes

UNAIDS (2024) CC

This Guidance was developed in response to the increase in HIV-related human rights crises and the shrinking civic space for rights-related responses to HIV in recent years across the world. This document builds upon existing guidance documents, offering updated guidance for country-based United Nat ... more

The End in sight: from collaboration to elimination

International Coaltion for Trachoma Control (2022) CC

ICTC’s 2022-2030 strategic plan spans the critical period running to the end of 2030, the year by which we are striving to achieve the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. This strategic plan is in alignment with the NTD road map, Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Develop ... more

Setting up a national disaster preparedness and response mechanism: Guidelines for National Societies

IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2010)

Climate risk country profile Brazil

World Bank Group (2021) C1

This profile is part of a series of Climate Risk Country Profiles developed by the World Bank Group (WBG). The country profile synthesizes most relevant data and information on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation actions and policies at the country level. The country profile se ... more

Considerations on Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and Other Ethnic Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2020) C_WHO

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, constituted a pandemic, given the speed and scale of its transmission. The Region of the Americas is characterized by its rich multi-ethnic and multicultural heritage. ... more

Zambia National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2011 – 2015

Ministry of Health, Zambia (2011) C1

Directrices para el Abordaje del VIH en Contextos de Asistencia Humanitaria

Comité Permanente Interagencial IASC (2011)

Las presentes Directrices para el Abordaje del VIH en Contextos de Asistencia Humanitaria tienen el propósito de ayudar a las organizaciones de asistencia humanitaria y VIH a planificar la administración de un conjunto mínimo de servicios de prevención, tratamiento, atención y apoyo para el VIH ... more

Area-Based Assessment with Key Informants - A Practical Guide

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, REACH Initiative (2019) C1

Much remains unknown about displaced communities in out-of-camp areas as identification constraints hinder knowledge on the overall situation and preeminent needs of an area. When compared to regularly monitored in-camp populations, less is known about the health, sanitation, livelihoods, food secur ... more

India: Provider Initiated Testing and Counselling for presumptive TB Cases and TB Patients (PITC): Training Manual for Laboratory Technicians

Central TB Division Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; NACO (2016) C1

Automated Real-time Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for Rapid and Simultaneous Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF System

World Health Organization (2011) C_WHO

Policy Statement

La marchandisation du médicament au Bénin

Carine Baxerres Journal des anthropologues (2014) C2

Journal des anthropologues n° 138-139, 2014 http://journals.openedition.org/jda/4444 Le médicament pharmaceutique industriel est un objet de santé à la fois scientifique, populaire et marchand. Si ces deux premiers caractères sont souvent mis en avant respectivement par les sciences biom ... more

Social Pathways for Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Sierra Leone, and Some Implications for Containment

Richards, P.; et al. (2015)

Facilitator’s manual: Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Liberia

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia; World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Assessment of Malaria Surveillance in Myanmar: Consultancy Report

Malaria Consortium (2013) C1

The primary aim of this assessment is to evaluate current approaches to malaria surveillance in Myanmar and to provide a set of practical and feasible recommendations to further strengthen the surveillance system in the short to medium term. The assessment focuses on the surveillance of malaria case ... more

Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey 2014- 15, District Profile Chart Book, Northern Province

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) [Rwanda], Ministry of Health (MOH) [Rwanda], and ICF International (2015) C2

he National Institute of statistics of Rwanda (NISR) in collaboration with the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys Program implemented the 2014-15 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) to collect data for monitoring progress on health programs and policies in Rwanda. This publication illu ... more

Evaluaciones armonizadas de la capacidad de los centros de salud en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19

Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS (2020) C_WHO

Orientaciones provisionales 2 de noviembre de 2020 Estas orientaciones provisionales son una actualización de la versión anterior, publicada el 31 de mayo de 2020 bajo el título “Harmonized modules for health facility assessment modules in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic ... more

Public financial management for effective response to health emergencies

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that public financial management (PFM) should be an integral part of the response. Effectiveness in financing the health response depends not only on the level of funding but also on the way public funds are allocated and spent, this is determined by the PFM r ... more

Living Conditions among People with Disabilities in Lesotho: A National Representative Study

SINTEF Technology and Society Global Health and Welfare (2011) C2

This research report provides results from the study of living conditions among people with disabilities in Lesotho. Comparisons are made between disabled and non-disabled in household level and individual level. Disability was defined as limitation to perform certain activities that was measure ... more