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Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Together Working Paper 1.0: Multisectoral coordination

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

This working paper was conceived to offer practical tips and suggestions on how to establish and sustain the multisectoral coordination needed to develop and implement National Action Plans on AMR (NAPs). It is intended for anyone with responsibility for addressing AMR at country level. Drawing on b... more

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Cote d’Ivoire - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report No. 3 Internal

UN Children's Fund UNICEF Unicef; WASH Cluster (2020) C_UNICEF

Reporting Period: 4 to 10 April 2020 • In collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, UNICEF started training 50 young bloggers on how to identify and respond to fake news. • UNICEF engaged with 97 social services to enable front-line social workers to carry out community prevention work and... more

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IOM Yemen - Marib Response July 2020

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C1

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COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plan: operational planning guideline: 1 February 2021 to 31 January 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

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Guide for the preparation of a risk communication strategy for COVID-19 vaccines: A Resource for the countries of the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

This document facilitate the preparation of a risk communication and community engagement strategy for vaccination against COVID-19. Its goal is to help to strengthen the communication and planning capacities of the ministries or secretariats of health and other agencies in charge of communicating ... more

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Lack of Primary Health Care Services in Developing Countries during Pandemic: An Urgent Reminder!

Muzammil and Lopes Journal of Family Medicine and Disease Prevention (2021) CC

As the world population is growing and health care resources are in high demand the pressure on medical services is becoming higher. Developing countries are already at a crisis point in health care provision, and time demands a new approach in structuring medical resources. Primary care is t... more

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Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home

Kivelä, L. & Tajima-Simpson, M. Save the Children (2021) CC

After ten years of war, the vast majority of Syria’s children cannot imagine a future in their country, according to a new report by Save the Children. On average, 86% of Syrian refugee children surveyed in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands said they would not want to return to their cou... more

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Interim recommendations for use of the Novavax NVX-CoV2373 vaccine against COVID-19: interim guidance, 20 December 2021

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

27 September 2022 These WHO interim recommendations for use of the Novavax NVX-CoV2373 vaccine were developed on the basis of advice issued by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) and the evidence summary included in the background document and annexes referenced below.

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WHO Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Herbal Medicine
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World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO

The manufacturing process is one of the key steps where quality control is required to ensure quality of medicinal products, including herbal medicines. Good manufacturing practices (GMP) is one of the most important tools for this measure.

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Generic risk assessment model for insecticides used for larviciding and mollusciciding

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

2nd edition. The purpose of this document is to provide a generic model that can be used for risk assessment of larviciding and mollusciciding; it aims to harmonize the risk assessment of such pesticides for public health use. The assessment considers both adults and children (all age groups) as we... more

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Medical Equipment Standard Lists for 2nd Level Hospitals
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Ministry of Health, Zambia; JICA (2012) C1

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Medical Equipment Standard Lists for 3rdLevel Hospitals
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Ministry of Health, Zambia; JICA (2012) C1

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Traditional Medicine Policy for Nigeria

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2007) C1

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Quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings: tools and resources compendium
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This compendium represents a curated, pragmatic and non-prescriptive collection of tools and resources to support the implementation of interventions to improve quality of care in such contexts. Relevant tools and resources are listed under five areas: Ensuring access and basic infrastructure for qu... more