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Video: Expressing and Storing Breastmilk

Global Health Media (2015)

Expressing breastmilk can relieve breast fullness, soften the breasts, and make it easier for the milk to flow. It is also important to maintain a mother’s milk supply during separation and make milk available for someone else to feed the baby. This video shows how to hand express breast milk and ... more

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Breastfeeding Video Series

Global Health Media Project (2015)

These videos provide breastfeeding mothers with practical information on “how to” skills and problem management. Our goal is to help mothers become more successful with breastfeeding enabling more of them to exclusively breastfeed their babies until 6 months of age. The video topics are: Breas... more

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Aide-memoire: Infection prevention and control (IPC) principles and procedures for COVID-19 vaccination activities
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

15 January 2021 This Aide Memoire is for policy makers, immunization programme managers, infection prevention and control (IPC) focal points at national, sub-national, and facility level, as well as for health workers involved in COVID-19 vaccination delivery. This document summarizes the key IPC p... more

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In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...gs into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

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Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2025) CC

Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. This collapse is placing immense pressure on Africa’s already fragile health systems as ODA ...is seen as the backbone of critical health programs: pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health services, disease control programs are all at risk, threatening Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage. Compounding this is Africa’s spiraling debt, with countries expected to service USD 81 billion by 2025—surpassing anticipated external financing inflows—further eroding fiscal space for health investments. Level of domestic resources is low. TThe Abuja Declaration of 2001, a pivotal commitment made by African Union (AU) member states, aimed to reverse this trend by pledging to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector. However, more than two decades later, only three countries—Rwanda, Botswana, and Cabo Verde—have consistently met or exceeded this target (WHO, 2023). In contrast, over 30 AU member states remain well below the 10% benchmark, with some allocating as little as 5–7% of their national budgets to health. In addition, only 16 (29%) of African countries currently have updated versions of National Health Development Plan (NHDP) supported by a National Health Financing Plan (NHFP). These two documents play a critical role in driving internal resource mobilisation. At the same time, public health emergencies are surging, rising 41%—from 152 in 2022 to 213 in 2024—exposing severe under-resourcing of health infrastructure and workforce. Recurring outbreaks (Mpox, Ebola, cholera, measles, Marburg…) alongside effects of climate change and humanitarian crises in Eastern DRC, the Sahel, and Sudan, are overwhelming systems stretched by chronic underfunding. The situation is worsened by Africa’s heavy dependency with over 90% of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics being externally sourced—leaving countries vulnerable to global supply chain shocks. Health worker shortages persist, with only 2.3 professionals per 1,000 people (below the WHO’s recommended 4.45), and fewer than 30% of systems are digitized, undermining disease surveillance and early warning. Without decisive action, Africa CDC projects the continent could reverse two decades of health progress, face 2 to 4 million additional preventable deaths annually, and a heightened risk of a pandemic emerging from within. Furthermore, 39 million more Africans could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to intertwined health and economic shocks. This is not just a sectoral crisis—it is an existential threat to Africa’s political, social, and economic resilience, and global stability. In response, African leaders, under Africa CDC’s stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance. more

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Rapport d'activités 2022 de l'OMS Niger : principaux résultats de l’OMS atteints en étroite collaboration avec le Gouvernement, les partenaires et d'autres acteurs. Rapport d'activités 2022 de l'OMS

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Ce rapport présente les principaux résultats de l’OMS atteints en 2022 au Niger en étroite collaboration avec le Gouvernement du Niger, les partenaires et d’autres acteurs, dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du 13e PGT, et dont quatre piliers ont guidé les interventions de l’OMS, à savoir... more

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Linha de cuidado da tuberculose

Ministério da Saúde, Brasil (2021) CC

Orientações para gestores e profissionais de saúde

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Review of forest and landscape restoration in Africa 2021

Food and Agricultur Organization of the United Nations FAO and NEPAD (2021) C2

English Analysis on World about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and more; published on 29 Sep 2021 by FAO and NEPAD

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Recommandations provisoires pour le nettoyage des maisons dans les régions affectées par Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest après le transfert des personnes présentant des symptômes d'Ebola aux unités de tra

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014)

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Full prescribing information Fexinidazole tablets, for oral use

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi (2021) C1

Full Perscribing information on Fexinidazole Tablet for oral use INDICATIONS AND USAGE Fexinidazole Tablets are indicated for the treatment of both the first-stage (hemolymphatic) and second-stage (meningoencephalitic) human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in pati... more

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ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution) for Symptoms of Ebola

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2015)

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Steps to remove personal protective equipment (PPE)

World Health Organization (2014)

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Mission de lancement d'une note et d’un dialogue politique sur le noma au Burkina Faso

Isabelle Wachsmuth OMS Genève (2014) C2

Cette mission menée conjointement par la représentante du Ministère de la Santé en charge du projet, la responsable EVIPNet de l’OMS à Genève et le directeur de la fondation Winds of Hope visait à établir le lien entre le Ministère de la Santé et les différentes parties prenantes du B... more

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Outreach, Safe Identification and Referral of Women, Children, and Youth with Disabilities. Tool 8: Do’s and Don’ts of Safe Identification and Referral of Survivors with Disabilities

Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon (2018) CC

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon

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Infection Control for Viral Haemorraghic Fever in the African Health Care Setting. Part 3

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , World Health Organization (1998) C_WHO

Part 3: Use Safe Burial Practices

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School Lessons Lesson 7: Water Recontamination

SODIS Sauberes Trinkwasser für alle (2011)

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West and Central Africa: Humanitarian Bulletin, March 2015

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2015)

USD$ 28 million allocated from UN Central Emergency Fund to assist people affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency. Boko Haram, insecurity exert misery in Cameroon’s Far North Region. Millions of people in Ebola-affected countries risk serious food shortages during the June-August lean ... more

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COVID-19 and the Displaced:Addressing the Threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Humanitarian Emergencies

Refugees International (2020) C1

Novel coronavirus will disproportionately impact world’s 70 million displaced people Report recommends stopping asylum seeker deportations, prioritising hygiene and refugee camp decongestion, better communication Displaced people must be included in prevention, mitigation efforts - for s... more

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Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) Senegal: Ebola Virus Disease

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; Canadian Red Cross (2014)

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Coronavirus - Let’s STOP the spread - Community

Western Cape Government (health); University of Cape Town; Knowledge Translation Unit (University of Cape Tow Lung Institute) (2020) C2

Updated 23 March 2020

Aide-memoire: Infection prevention and control (IPC) principles and procedures for COVID-19 vaccination activities recommended

Aide-memoire: Infection prevention and control (IPC) principles and procedures for COVID-19 vaccination activities
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