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UNHCR Cholera Response Plan October 2022-March 2023

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2022) CC

The UNHCR Cholera Response Plan (October 2022 – March 2023) outlines efforts to combat the cholera outbreak in Lebanon, which was declared in October 2022. The plan, led by the Ministry of Public Health with support from UNHCR, WHO, UNICEF, and NGOs, focuses on prevention, response, and surveillan... more

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Using social media to disseminate COVID-19 Information

USAID (2020) CC

A Technical Brief for Breakthrough ACTION Field Teams Social media can be used to collect and address rumors or popular beliefs among target audiences, share evidence-based and timely health information, receive instant feedback on materials, conduct remote trainings, promote awareness of a project... more

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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Deininger, K. The MEDBOX Team (2023) CC

Issue Brief 31: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can occur when viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi change over time. There is no longer a response to medicines, and the infection treatment gets really difficult which increases the risk of a disesase spread, which can lead to severe health problems... more

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Humanitarian Action for Children: Rwanda

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

Rwanda first confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in March 2020. Although the number of cases has been low, health system resources are being redirected to respond and an increasing number of children are affected by the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, including disruptions... more

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Counselling for Caregivers Unit 9: Coping with Stress

Commonwealth of Learning (2021) CC

This unit is written so that you will have the opportunity to learn from mistakes.The unit will take you on a journey of personal stress management, one step at a time Each lesson covers a number of topics and provides various activities for you to complete. In Lesson 1, you will learn about what s... more

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Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

Wilkinson, J.L.; A.B. A. Boxall, D. W. Kolpin, et al. (2022) CC

PNAS 119 (8) e2113947119 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113947119 Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, m... more

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Access to essential respiratory medications remains elusive in LMICs

Karmali, D.; Siddharthan, T. (2022) CC

Over 90% of the morbidity and mortality related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma occurs in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to well documented factors including decreased access to screening, trained health professionals, and therapies for disease manageme... more

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Situation Analysis of Children with Disabilities in Myanmar

UNICEF Myanmar (2016)

The study analyses the current situation of children with disabilities in relation to realizing their rights and accessing basic services, as well as their life experiences in their communities. It also focuses on identifying the barriers created by society that prevent children with disabilities fr... more

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Dengue in a changing climate

Kristie L. Ebi, Joshua Nealon (2016) C1

Environmental Research Volume 151, November 2016, Pages 115-123 Dengue is the world’s most important arboviral disease in terms of number of people affected. Over the past 50 years, incidence increased 30-fold: there were approximately 390 million infections in 2010. Globalization, trade, travel,... more

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Burden of Peripheral Artery Disease and Its Attributable Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories From 1990 to 2019

Lin, J.; Chen, Y.; Jiang, N. et al. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2022) CC

Background: Data on burden of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and its attributable risk factors are valuable for policymaking. We aimed to estimate the burden and risk factors for PAD from 1990 to 2019. Methods: We extracted the data on prevalence, incidence, death, years lived with disability (YLD... more

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MEPs Mobilising for Diabetes Blueprint for Action on Diabetes in the European Union by 2030

MEPs Mobilising for Diabetes (2021) CC2

Since the discovery of insulin nearly 100 years ago, advances in diabetes treatments and therapies have transformed the lives of people with diabetes (PwD), notably reducing the daily burden of its management. Newer technologies, including those driven by artificial intelligence, have the potentia... more

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The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its attributable risk factors in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2019

Feizi, H.; Alizadeh, M.; Nejadghaderi, S.A.; et al. Respiratory Research (2022) CC2

The article "The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its attributable risk factors in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2019" provides an analysis of the prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) due to COPD in the MENA region from 1990 to 2019. ... more

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The sociodemographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

United Nations ECLAC (2022) C1

Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by a matrix of social inequality whose axes —such as socioeconomic stratum, gender, stage in the life cycle, ethnicity and race, territory, disability, and immigration status— create multiple, often concurrent, situations of exclusion and discri... more

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Always included: Uninterpreted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis

Handicap International (2023) CC

Globally, some 72 million children are out of school due to emergencies and protracted crises. Of these, at least 17% are children with disabilities.1 Yet, education in a crisis context can be a lifeline for children, providing psychosocial support, access to school feeding and health programmes, ... more

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Malaria No More Website

Malaria No More (2025) C2

Malaria No More is a non-profit organisation dedicated to eradicating malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, in our lifetime. Through innovative partnerships, advocacy and data-driven solutions, Malaria No More works globally to ensure access to prevention tools, diagnostics and treatment, pa... more

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Cancer Advocacy Traning Toolkit for Africa

Godfrey, E. AfrOx; ESMO; et al. (2014) CC

One of the most important ways we feel we can help to reduce the burden of cancer in Africa is to work with African cancer advocacy organisations to help educate and advocate about cancer in their countries. To this end in 2010 we designed with our partners, 13 posters for use in Africa giving heal... more

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COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance

Compass (2021) CC

Social and behavior change (SBC) professionals have often been tasked to find ways to influence knowledge, attitudes, and practices, about vaccines. Now that the COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available worldwide, renewed emphasis and urgency for SBC efforts arise. To that end, WHO has offered thre... more

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A double dose of inequality; Pharma companies and the Covid-19 vaccines crisis

Amnesty International (2022) C2

22 Sept. 2021 The rapid development of effective Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 gave hope to the world in the darkest days of the deadly pandemic. However, the vaccine roll-out has been massively skewed towards wealthy nations. While rich states have hoarded vaccines, companies have also played a decisi... more

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Training and deployment of Key Informants (KIs) for case finding for children with severe visual impairment and blindness and Improving the follow up of children after cataract and other surgeries

Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology KCCO (2022) CC

The WHO estimates that 19 million children aged 15 years or younger are visually impaired. Of these, 1.4 million are irreversibly blind and need visual rehabilitation interventions for full psychological and personal development. The remainder have visual problems that could be prevented or treated.... more