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World Drug Report 2019 Booklet 5 Drugs and the environment

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2022) C2

The booklet starts with a general overview of how illicit drugs and the environment are linked within the bigger picture of the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change and environmental sustainability. It highlights direct and indirect linkages and gives examples of the significant local and i ... more

Joint Submission on Universal Periodic Review for Uganda

National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) (2011) C1

A Social and Behavior Change Strategy for Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Behaviors in Azraq Camp – Jordan

Action contre la Faim France (2023) CC

Azraq refugee camp located in Zarqa governorate was established in April 2014. As of June 2023, the camp continues to hosts 40,600 Syrian refugees, with 61% of the population children, and 25% of all households female-headed (UNHCR, 2023). The water supply system in Azraq has been operational sin ... more

Comparison of Trends in Tuberculosis Incidence among Adults Living with HIV and Adults without HIV – Kenya, 1998–2012

C. M. Yuen, H. O. Weyenga, A. A. Kim, et al. PLOS One (2014) CC

PLoS ONE 9(6): e99880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099880 Published June 17, 2014

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke

Paciaroni, M.; Bogousslavsky, J. European Neurology (2010) CC

Prevention of stroke and transient ischemic attack includes both conventional approaches to vascular risk factor management (blood pressure lowering, cholesterol reduction with statins, smoking cessation and antiplatelet therapy) and more specific interventions, such as carotid revascularization or ... more

Community- Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)

World Vision International (2017) C1

Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) is a decentralised community-based approach to treating acute malnutrition. Treatment is matched to the nutritional and clinical needs of the child, with the majority children receiving treatment at home using ready-to-use foods. In-patient car ... more

Assistive Products for Children with Disabilities. Overview
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2018)

Mapping of Communication Resources COVID-19
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Communication for Devleopment4 Network (2020) C1

This resource mapping contains signposting and direct links to a range of resource sites and content online; this includes information about the main sources for trustworthy information about the pandemic; sites for e-learning; organisations providing COVID-19 communication response guidance and too ... more

Treatment of Drug-Resistant TB with New and Repurposed Medications: A Supplemental Field Guide for Nurses

The SWIFT Response Project (2015) C_WHO

For the first time in almost 50 years there are two new drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB): bedaquiline and delamanid. There has also been increased attention given to the safety and efficacy of “re-purposed” drugs that have been widely used to treat other infections but are al ... more

Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

Velho Barreto de Araújo, T.; et al. (2016)

THELANCETID-D-16-00800 S1473-3099(16)30318-8

Peru: Floods - Emergency appeal: MDRPE012 Operations Update no. 1

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2017) C1

Since December 2016, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has affected Peru, causing heavy rainfall, floods, landslides, hail and electric storms. Although the impact has been particularly serious in the northern coastal regions, levels of affectation are reported in all 24 of the country’s de ... more

CONSENSUS DOCUMENT FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CANCER CERVIX

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2016) C1

Prepared as an outcome of ICMR Subcommittee on Cancer Cervix | This consensus document on management of cervix cancer summarizes the modalities of treatment including the site-specific anti-cancer therapies, supportive and palliative care and molecular markers and research questions. It also interwe ... more

WASH and infection prevention and control in households and public spaces

Global Handwashing Partnership; UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

This guidance note developed by UNICEF explains how the WASH sector can implement infection prevention and control measures in households and community settings. It focuses on reducing the exposure to the disease in vulnerable community settings and public spaces, and the transmission of the disease ... more

Populorum Progressio Encyclical of POPE PAUL VI on the development of peoples

Holy Father Paul VI Libreria Editrice Vaticana (1967) C2

The progressive development of peoples is an object of deep interest and concern to the Church. This is particularly true in the case of those peoples who are trying to escape the ravages of hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance; of those who are seeking a larger share in the benefits of ci ... more

Pioneer Project: A holistic systems strengthening approach towards Malaria control in Mid-Western Uganda

Malaria Consortium and Comic Relief (2014) C1

Successes and lessons

Nigeria: Yellow Fever DREF Operation n° MDRNG031 Final Report

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2021) CC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared a Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak and activated a multi-sectoral Emergency Operations Centre for coordination of Yellow Fever response on 12 November 2020. The outbreak, which mainly affected three states of Delta, Enugu and Bauchi, already recorded ... more

SAVE Advocacy Strategy - The Kenyan Case Study

Inerela + Kenya (International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or personally affected by HIV - Kenya Chapter); Christian aid (2019) C2

Accessed: 17.11.2019

Data on children & disability

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2015)

UNICEF's global work on statistics and monitoring the situation of children & women

CONSENSUS DOCUMENT FOR MANAGEMENT OF Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (High Grade)

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2016) C1

Prepared as an outcome of ICMR Subcommittee on Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (High Grade) | This consensus document on management of non- hodgkin’s lymphoma – high grade summarizes the modalities of treatment including the site-specific anti-cancer therapies, supportive and palliative care and molec ... more