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Community based psychosocial services in humanitarian assistance. A facilitator's guide

Agni, Kathy; et al. LutherahjalpenChurch of Sweden; Norwegian Church Aid and Presbyterian Disasters Assistance (2005) C2

This expansive facilitator's guide deals with psychosocial interventions concerning multiple causes of trauma such as HIV and AIDS and post-conflict situations. The guide offers technical advice to the implementor which is usefully augmented by diagrams, ideas for games and other useful intervention ... more

Guidelines for managing advanced HIV disease and rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

The objectives of these guidelines are to provide recommendations outlining a public health approach to managing people presenting with advanced HIV disease, and to provide guidance on the timing of initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all people living with HIV.
WHO recommends that a ... more

Myanmar’s 2020 Elections and Conflict Dynamics

United States Institute of Peace USIP (2019) C1

ABOUT THE REPORT Based on more than seventy interviews, surveys of both mainstream and social media in Myanmar, and a desk review of available election-related materials, this report evaluates the environment in which the current electoral cycle, Rakhine conflicts, and the 21st Century Panglong pea ... more

How to use social media to better engage people affected by crises

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); ICRC (2020) C1

A brief guide for those using social media in humanitarian organizations

COVID-19 Guidance and Toolkit for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Teams

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C1

This brief document compiles existing material related to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for the COVID-19 crisis, as well as other resources that can be applicable to the context. Documents are divided into different sections, based on the ‘’spaces of new vulnerability” inheren ... more

Manual on community-based mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and displacement

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C1

Manual for the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza

World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

WHO has developed this manual in order to strengthen the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza infection.

The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Oxfam (2021) CC

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doi ... more

Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics - Report of the WHO Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit

World Health Organization WHO OCHA Services reliefweb (2022) C_WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound ethical challenges on an unprecedented global scale. These challenges include how to allocate scarce resources (especially vaccines and therapeutics), both within and between countries, whether and when to mandate vaccines and/or masks, whether and how to co ... more

Global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies. Report

World Health Organization (World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Rabies remains an under-reported neglected zoonosis with a case-fatality rate of almost 100% in humans and animals. Dog-mediated human rabies causes tens of thousands of human deaths annually despite being 100% preventable. More than 95% of human cases are caused by the bite of a rabies-infected dog ... more

Using Observational Data to Inform HIV Policy Change for Children and Youth

A. H. Sohn; A. Judd; L. Mofenson; 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

Ecuador - Country Indicators Medical Devices

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

Fact Sheet Global Atlas of medical devices

Nepal: Saarc Guidelines for Partnership with School in Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre (2006) C1

Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Prison Inmates in Ethiopia, a Cross-Sectional Study

S. Ali, A. Haileamlak, A. Wieser, et al. (2015) CC

PLOS ONE 10(12): e0144040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144040

COVID-19 Response to Refugees and Host Communities in Bangladesh

Act Alliance (2020) CC

ACT Alliance appeal: Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – ACT201 - Sub-Appeal - ACT 201-BGD -

Ten-Year Personal Experience of Using Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Mesh for Inguinal Hernia Repair

Ravindranath R Tongaonkar, David L Sanders and Andrew N Kingsnorth (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2329-9088.1000136 Trop Med Surg 2013, 1:136

Disability Inclusion: Translating Policy into Practice in Humanitarian Action

Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon (2014) CC

The report provides lessons and recommendations for other organizations and the wider humanitarian community on engaging persons with disabilities at all levels of humanitarian work. It draws on consultations with over 700 displaced persons—including persons with disabilities, their families, and ... more

Early Childhood Development and Disability: A discussion paper

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) & World Health Organisation (WHO) (2012)

Essential for Excellence. Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Strategic Communication for Behaviour and Social Change

UNICEF (2008)

with special reference to prevention and control of avian influenza