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The Oxfam Ebola Response in Liberia and Sierra Leone: An evaluation report for the Disasters Emergency Committee

Adams, J.; Llyod, A.; Miller, C. Oxfam (2015)

The context of the Ebola epidemic presented extreme challenges for Oxfam, as it did for many organisations. At the onset of the epidemic, there was a general lack of understanding of the disease and how to respond to it effectively and safely. A per ... more

Collective Voices: Qualitative Case Study Report

Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3MDG) (2018) C1

Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice appropriate health-seeking behaviour in Mon and Ch ... more

Community home based care guidelines

University of Western Cape; University of Cape Town, Maastricht University et al. Learning Network (2014) CC

Community Health Committee Training

COVID-19 Impact on Supply Chain Logistics:Assessment and Recommendations

The Global Fund (2020) CC

The Global Fund’s product and delivery outlook shows the overall impact of COVID-19 on health product supply chains for Global Fund grants has increased from "low to moderate" to "moderate."

Intervention On the road to peace of mind - A guidebook

Dr Nancy Baron War Trauma Foundation (2009)

An applied approach to the training of trainers who, in turn, train teams to implement psychosocial and mental health interventions in developing countries affected by emergencies. The film On the Road to Peace of Mind, used in conjunct ... more

Narrowing the Gaps: The power of investing in the poorest children

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

UNICEF analysis indicates that:
- Investments that increase access to high-impact health and nutrition interventions by poor groups have saved almost twice as many lives as equivalent investments in non-poor groups.
- Access to high-impact ... more

World Alzheimer Report 2019

Prince, M., and J. Jackson Alzheimer's Disease International (2019) C2

Some of the key findings of the report include: Almost 80% of the general public are concerned about developing dementia at some point and 1 in 4 people think that there is nothing we can do to prevent dementia 35% of carers across the world said that they have hidden the diagnosis of de ... more

Gender differentials and state variations in suicide deaths in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Suicide Collaborators (2018) CC

Lancet Public Health 2018 Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(18)30138-5

Cholera in Yemen: A case study of epidemic preparedness and response

The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Healt (2018) C1

The report offers 20 top recommendations for getting ahead of future outbreaks in Yemen and similarly complex humanitarian settings. In 2015, Yemen was declared a Level 3 emergency by the UN, kicking into gear the highest level of humanitarian support. A massive cholera outbreak followed, leading t ... more

Trends and Determinants of Unmet Need for Family Planning and Programme Options, Ethiopia.

Ayele, Wondimu, Habtamu Tesfaye, Roman Gebreyes, and Tesfayi Gebreselassie ICF International (2013) C2

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic and Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 81

Living in Chains: Shackling of People with Psychosocial Disabilities Worldwide

Human Rights Watch HRW (2020) C1

The report examines how people with mental health conditions are often shackled by families in their own homes or in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, against their will, due to widespread stigma and a lack of mental ... more

Collective Voices Report: Qualitative Case Study Report

Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3MDG) (2017) C1

Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice appropriate health-seeking behaviour in Mon and Ch ... more

Ebola outbreak in rural West Africa: epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes

Silvia Dallatomasina, et al. (2015)

Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Apr; 20(4): 448–454. Open Access

Keeping the 100-year-old promise: making insulin access universal

WHO (2021) C_WHO

High prices, hard-to-access human insulin, few insulin producers, and weak health systems are just some of the barriers that people with diabetes face a century after insulin was discovered, WHO notes in a new report

Living Planet Report 2020 - Bending the curve of biodiversity loss

World Wildlife Fund for Nature WWF (2020) C2

At a time when the world is reeling from the deepest global disruption and health crisis of a lifetime, this year’s Living Planet report provides unequivocal and alarming evidence that nature is unraveling and that our planet is flashing red war ... more

Multi-sectoral National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2027 (Zambia)
recommended

Government of the Republic of Zambia (2018) CC

Zambia has recognised the Public Health threat of antimicrobial resistance and its impact on morbidity and mortality, as well as the subsequent economic consequences. The country has recorded microorganisms which have developed resistance to antimic ... more

Not all that bleeds is Ebola
recommended

International Rescue Committee (2020) C1

How has the DRC Ebola outbreak impacted Sexual and Reproductive Health in North-Kivu? Recommendations (more specifics found in the assessment): 1. Sexual and reproductive health needs and services ... more

WASH - Nutrition Strategy, West and Central Africa: To maximise the impact of projects addressing malnutrition through interventions of the Water, Sanitiation, Hygiene sector

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

This document was prepared by UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa, under the leadership of Christophe Valingot and the review of Joachim Peeters (WASH Specialist) and Arnaud Laillou (Nutrition Specialist), on behalf of the WASH Regional Group and the Nutrition Regional Group. This ... more

A World Where We Matter

National Coordination Committee, Jan Swasthya Sabha (2000)

Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book - 4

The urgent need to identify and evaluate patient safety interventions in fragile, conflict- affected and vulnerable settings

Shaw, A.; N. O'Brien, K. Flott, et al. (2021) CC

J Glob Health 2021;11:03082.