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Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI): Fact Sheet. Myanmar 2017

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East-Asia (2017) C_WHO

Maternal and Newborn Health in Urban India: A Monograph based on Literature Review Exercise

Save the Children (2016) C2

India contributes to 16% of the global maternal deaths and around 27% of global newborn deaths. Reducing the burden of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in urban poor settings today requires an expansion of effective Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) care services and lowering the barrier ... more

Invisible: The Rohingyas, the crisis, the people and their health

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2020) C_WHO

Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline

World Health Organisation (WHO) World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This guideline provides evidence-informed guidance on the use of non-sugar sweeteners to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain and diet-related noncommunicable diseases in adults and children. The guidance in this guideline is not based on toxicological assessments of the safety of individual no ... more

Emergency Appeal Sierra Leone: Ebola Virus Disease

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

Updated September 2014

Factsheet. Gender based violence working group July 2019

Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela Response for Venezuelans (2019) CC

The ongoing political, socio-economic and human rights events in Venezuela have led to the outflow of almost 4 million refugees and migrants, the biggest population movement in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) working group of the Regional Coordination ... more

Implementing an isoniazid preventive therapy program for people living with HIV in Thailand

Danyuttapolchai, J., S. Kittimunkong, S. Nateniyom, et al. (2016) CC

PLoSONE 12(9):e0184986.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184986

Using the Sphere Standards in Urban Settings

Ben Mountfield The Sphere Project (2016)

Fills a gap in current guidance on how to implement humanitarian standards in urban situations. In Arabic, English, French and Spanish available

Drug Use Pattern in Primary Health Care Facilities of Kaski District, Western Nepal

Dahal P., Bhattarai B., Adhikari D., et al. Sunsari Technical College Journal (2012) C1

Sunsari Technical College Journal Oktober 2012

Childhood under attack: The staggering impact of South Sudan’s crisis on children

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2017)

National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), India, 2019-21: Tamil Nadu

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2021) CC

December 2022 This report presents the key findings of the NFHS-5 survey in Tamil Nadu, followed by detailed tables and an appendix on sampling errors. The 2019-21 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), the fifth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for Ind ... more

Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Voices from South Sudan

Plan International (2018) C1

In the last 5 years, the conflict in South Sudan has displaced 4 million people and placed 7 million in need of humanitarian assistance.
This report commissioned by Plan International draws on research conducted with girls and members of their families and communities in multiple sites in South ... more

Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Management: Promising practices and opportunities for enhanced engagement

Guernsey, Katherine; Scherrer, Valérie Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), World Bank (2018) C1

This paper provides information to assist World Bank and GFDRR staff in affecting disability-inclusive DRM. It is based upon desk reviews of existing practice, as well as consultations with experts in the field of disability-inclusive DRM. The paper:
- Illustrates promising practices related to ... more

Technical missions: HIV, STI and viral hepatitis in Bulgaria

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2017) CC

ECDC MISSION REPORT 19–21 September 2016 ; 14–15 November 2016

Disparity between burden and budget for mental health

Saxena, S. (2019) CC

Published OnlineNovember 13, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(18)30238-X

Making Implementation Science Work for Children and Adolescents Living With HIV

D. Mark; E. Geng; S. Vorkorper; et al. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes; Ovid (2018) C2

Supplement Article www.jaids.com J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Volume 78, Supplement 1, August 15, 2018

Early childhood development For orphans and vulnerable children: Key considerations

J. Cairns; K. Greenblott; D. Hirschland; et al. USAID ; Aidstar-One (2011) C2

Technical Brief

Continuing essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia; UNICEF; UNFPA (2020) CC

Practical considerations It provides more detailed and practical guidance for continuing services for each life stage across the life-course continuum. As such, both documents should be read and used together. The countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific regions would like to adapt the guidance ... more