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Manual on water and environmental sanitation for disaster management

World Health Organization WHO (2006) C_WHO

Today more people are exposed to hazards. While humanitarian action to mitigate the impact of disasters will always be vitally important, the community is facing critical challenge- how to better anticipate, manage and reduce - disaster risks by integrating the potential threat into its planning and ... more

Training of community health workers: Cervical cancer screening and management of cervical pre-cancers

Lakhbir Dhaliwal, Vanita Suri, Reshmi Bagga et al. World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and causes a significant number of deaths in the South-East Asia Region. Nearly 200 000 new cases of cervical cancer occurred in SEA Region Member States in 2008, giving an incidence of almost 25 per 100 ... more

Nepal: National Medical Protocol for the Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition

CMAM (2009) C1

Technical Updates of the guidelines on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

World Health Organization (2005)

Best Practices in health care waste management
recommended

Health Care Without Harm Asia (2007) C1

Examples from four Philippine Hospitals

Guidelines for donations of medicines and medical supplies

Fiji Pharmaceutical Service Ministry of Health, Republic of Fiji Islands (2016) CC

Framework for a national plan for monitoring and management of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Effective malaria prevention is threatened by widespread and increasing vector insecticide resistance. Failure to mitigate this threat will likely result in an increased burden of disease, with significant cost implications. This new framework provides support for the development of a national insec ... more

Infection Prevention and control and health care waste management for waste handlers

USAID, AIDS Free Nigeria (2016) C1

AIDS Free Nigeria Training Manual

The Logistics Handbook - A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities

USAID Deliver (2011) C1

This resource offers practical guidance in managing the supply chain, with emphasis on health comodities. The handbook is particularly useful for program managers who design, manage, and assess logistics system for health program. The document includes detailed information about the design and imple ... more

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Movement of Essential Health and Humanitarian Supplies and Personnel in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2020) C_WHO

Five actions for disability-inclusive disaster risk management

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (2018)

A recent survey of the literature and experience identified five broad actions that development institutions and governments, as well as their partners and stakeholders, can take to improve disability-inclusive disaster risk management. Those five a ... more

Screening for cardiovascular disease risk and subsequent management in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities

Bovet, P.; Chiolero, A.; Paccaud, F. et al. Public Health Reviews (2015) CC

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of premature mortality in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD is an important strategy to prevent and control CVD, in addition to multisector ... al population-based interventions to reduce CVD risk factors in the entire population. Methods: We describe key public health considerations in identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD in LMICs. Results: A main objective of any strategy to identify individuals at high CVD risk is to maximize the number of CVD events averted while minimizing the numbers of individuals needing treatment. Scores estimating the total risk of CVD (e.g. ten-year risk of fatal and non-fatal CVD) are available for LMICs, and are based on the main CVD risk factors (history of CVD, age, sex, tobacco use, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and diabetes status). Opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors enables identification of persons with high CVD risk, but this strategy can be widely applied in low resource settings only if cost effective interventions are used (e.g. the WHO Package of Essential NCD interventions for primary health care in low resource settings package) and if treatment (generally for years) can be sustained, including continued availability ofaffordable medications and funding mechanisms that allow people to purchase medications without impoverishing them (e.g. universal access to health care). Thisalso emphasises the need to re-orient health systems in LMICs towards chronic diseases management. Conclusion: The large burden of CVD in LMICs and the fact that persons with high CVD can be identified and managed along cost-effective interventions mean that health systems need to be structured in a way that encourages patient registration, opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors, efficient procedures for the management of chronic conditions (e.g. task sharing) and provision of affordable treatment for those with high CVD risk. The focus needs to be in primary care because that is where most of the population can access health care and because CVD programmes can be run effectively at this level. more

Interim national guidelines for community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in Ghana

Ghana Health Services; Ministry of Health USAID; FHI360; WHO; et al. (2010) C1

Policy Brief 1 : Building a Dispensary Health Management Information System

Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya (2015)

Toolkit for assessing health-system capacity for crisis management. Part 1. User manual

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe (2012)

Strengthening health-system emergency preparedness.

Malawi: Assessment of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management of Anti-TB Medicines

Chana, R USAID (2009) C1

Nigeria: Standard Operating Procedures for Lassa Fever Case Management

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (2017) C2

Guidance Note on Disability and Emergency Risk Management for Health

World Health Organization; UNICEF; UNISDR; et al. (2013) C_WHO

This guidance note is intended primarily for health actors working in emergency and disaster risk management (hereafter 'emergency risk management') at the local, national or internati ... more

Uganda Clinical Guidelines. National Guidelines on Management of Common Conditions
recommended

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2016) C1

This new edition and fully updated publication replaces the 2012 UCG and is being circulated free of charge to all public and private sector prescribers, pharmacists, and regulatory authorities in the country