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Fourth annual meeting of the network of Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region: Mundi complex, Yaoundé, 24-26 October 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

n October 2019, WHO convened the first meeting of the Buruli ulcer laboratory network (BU-LABNET) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, bringing together 11 laboratories from nine countries at the Pasteur Centre of Cameroon (CPC), the network’s Coordinating ... more

Compendium of WHO guidelines and associated standards: ensuring optimum delivery of the cascade of care for patients with tuberculosis
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

2nd edition. T The Compendium has been developed as a clear and concise instrument to facilitate the understanding and planning of delivery of high-quality care for everybody affected by TB. It incorporates all recent policy guidance from WHO; foll ... more

Report of the fifth annual meeting of the network of Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region, Accra, Ghana, 23-25 October 2023

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The aim of the meeting was to broaden the network’s initiatives. Preliminary work involved integrating laboratory testing for skin NTDs other than Buruli ulcer, such as cutaneous leishmaniasis, mycetoma, leprosy and yaws, while extending the network’s reach to encompass additional laboratories.

Total fat intake for the prevention of unhealthy weight gain in adults and children: WHO guideline

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the percentage of total fat in the diet to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain. This guideline is intended for a wide audience involved in the development, design and implementation of policies and programmes in nutrition and pub ... more

Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Lessons Learned from Quarantine – Sierra Leone and Liberia

Assessment Capacities Project (2015)

Summary of lessons learned Self-imposed quarantine has proved less problematic. The timely and reliable delivery of resources (e.g. food/water) and expertise (e.g. contact tracing/safe and dignified burials) is essential to ensure cooperation and deter quarantine violation. The commun ... more

Follow-up and tracing of tuberculosis patients who fail to attend their scheduled appointments in Cotonou, Benin: a retrospective cohort study

Serge Ade1, Arnaud Trébucq, Anthony D. Harries, Gabriel Ade, Gildas Agodokpessi, Prudence Wachinou, Dissou Affolabi, Sévérin Anagonou BMC Health Services Research (2016) C2

Ade et al. BMC Health Services Research (2016) 16:5 Background: In the “Centre National Hospitalier de Pneumo-Phtisiologie” of Cotonou, Benin, little is known about the characteristics of patients who have not attended their scheduled appo ... more

Keeping women who use drugs healthy

M. Gaventa; S. McLean; D. Bajpai; et al. International HIVAIDS Alliance (2013) C2

Case study Alliance Ukraine’s experience integrating HIV, harm reduction and sexual and reproductive health programming

KENYA: COVID-19 Guidelines from Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa on Safe Mass Gatherings

AMECEA (2020) C1

Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Performance. Summary results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs: round 1 -7 (2008 –2016)

E. Heseltine World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Human resources for primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

Willcox et al Human Resources for Health (2015) CC

Health for All – transforming economies to deliver what matters: Final report of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All

World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) CC

The Council was established in late 2020 by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General, WHO) to provide new economic thinking – reassessing how health and wellbeing are valued, produced and distributed across the economy. An all-female group ... more

Overview of WHO recommendations on HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing, prevention, treatment, care and service delivery

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

This document highlights the latest WHO recommendations designed to optimize health outcomes, streamline delivery and address persistent barriers to prevention and care. It especially focuses on people often left behind in service delivery, includin ... more

HIV and young men who have sex with men

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Technical Brief

HIV and people who infect drugs

UNAIDS (2024) C_WHO

2024 GLOBAL AIDS UPDATE Thematic briefing note

Recommended package of interventions for HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for men who have sex with men

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Polic brief. In this policy brief, we give an update on those parts of the guidelines which are relevant for men who have sex with men.

Gender Equality, Women's Empowerment (GEWE) and HIV in Africa

African Union; and UN Women (2021) CC

The impact of intersecting issues and key continental priorities

The Current State of CHW Training Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Do

C. Redick; H. S. Faich Dini; L.-A. Long One Million Community Worker Campaign; mPowering Frontline Health Workers (2014) C2

July 2014 This report was made possible through support provided by the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign, mPowering Frontline Health Workers, Intel, and USAID. This report was authored by Cindil Redick for mPowering Frontline Health Workers under the terms of Contract No. GHS-A-00-08 ... more

A comprehensive review of cystic fibrosis in Africa and Asia

Abubakar, B.K.; Ahmad, U., Chau, D.M. et al. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences (2023) CC

Cystic ﬁbrosis (CF) was earlier thought to be a disease prevalent in the West among Caucasians. However, quite a number of recent studies have uncovered CF cases outside of this region, and reported hundreds of unique and novel variant forms of CFTR. Here, we discuss the evidence of CF in parts of ... more

Training manual for law enforcement officials on HIV service provision for people who inject drugs

D. Riley; N. Thomson; G. Monaghan; et al. United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2020) C2

Advance Copy Accessed: 08.03.2020

Factors associated with HIV testing among young men who have sex with men in Myanmar: a cross‐sectional study

Minh D Pham; Poe Poe Aung; Aye Kyawt Paing et al. (2017) CC

Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, vol. 20:e25026
In Myanmar, men who have sex with men (MSM) experience high risk of HIV infection. However, access to HIV testing and prevention services remains a challenge among this marginalized ... more