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Guidelines for the prevention, surveillance and management of COVID-19 infection among health care workers in Zimbabwe

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO

The Guidelines for the Prevention, Surveillance and Management of COVID-19 Infection amongst Health Care Workers (HCW) in Zimbabwe were developed to prevent, detect and manage HCW COVID-19 infection, an emerging pandemic affecting the whole world. The HCW is at the fore front of this pandemic, thus ... more

Rapid assessment of Ebola impact on reproductive health services and service seeking behaviour in Sierra Leone

Government of Sierra Leone, Department for International Development, UN Population Fund, Irish Aid (2015)

Vanuatu: Tropical Cyclone Donna Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF Operation n° MDRVU004

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2017)

Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents
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World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

2nd edition. The 2018 Roadmap incorporates an additional critical population: adolescents. Despite making up 1 in 6 of the world’s people, adolescents have been largely overlooked as global momentum to address TB has grown. Spanning the ages of 10–19 years, adolescents are both at risk of TB and ... more

Global expenditure on health: Public spending on the rise?

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO

The 2021 Report examines country health spending patterns and trends over the past 20 years, before the COVID-19 pandemic, with greater focus on public spending on health. The report also presents spending on primary health care, preliminary health expenditure in 2020 for a small set of countries (i ... more

EQUINET Information sheet on COVID-19

R Loewenson EQUINET (2020) C1

Produced by Training and Research Support Centre for the Regional Network for Equity in Health in east and southern Africa (EQUINET), March 20, 2020. This brief summarises and provides links to official, scientific and other resources to support an understanding of and individual to regional level ... more

Slowing of the HIV Epidemic in Ukraine: Evidence from Case Reporting and Key Population Surveys, 2005–2012

C. R. Vitek; J.-I. Cakalo; Y .V. Kruglov; et al. PLOS One (2014) C2

PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org September 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 9 | e103657

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: Training Guide – Community Workers

Quinn, V., and A. Guyon (2015) CC

The Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Training Guide: Community Workers strengthens the capacity of community workers to deliver and promote the essential nutrition and hygiene actions. It introduces technical content within hands-on sessions to practice counseling and negoti ... more

Water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities: practical steps to achieve universal access to quality care

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2019) C_WHO

Deadly Consequences. Obstruction of Aid in Yemen During Covid-19

Human Rights Watch HRW (2020) C1

With about 24 million of Yemen’s 30 million people in need of some form of assistance, the United Nations calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Cholera and other disease outbreaks are common, malnutrition is widespread, water is scarce, and the healthcare system is crumbling, with o ... more

Diarrhoea Treatment Guidelines
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The MOST Project USAID (2005) C_WHO

The WHO page addresses diarrhoeal diseases, one of the leading causes of death among children under five, which can be prevented through clean water, improved hygiene, and vaccinations. It emphasizes the importance of oral rehydration solutions (ORS) and zinc supplementation for treatment, as well a ... more

A guide for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in leprosy: 2017 update
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E. A. Cooreman WHO SEARODepartment of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (2017) C_WHO

In case of resistance to rifampicin, fluoroquinolones become the preferred category of second-line drugs. Unfortunately, quinolone-resistant strains of Mycobacterium leprae have also been reported in several countries, probably due to the extensive use of quinolones for treating several types of inf ... more

Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries

Waage, J.; D. Grace; E.M. Févre; et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2022) CC

Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68 The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimension of the complex relationship between agriculture ... more

UN Ebola Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund 2015 Interim Report

UN Development Programme, UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (2015)

The report will describe how the Ebola Response MPTF, which has attracted contributions from 38 Member States, one business and many individuals, has offered a transparent and strategic tool to support the Ebola response. As of 31 January 2015, the Fund had total pledges amounting to US$142 million, ... more

Strengthening the Role of Women with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: A Facilitator’s Guide

B. Lee, E. Pearce, D. Buscher Women’s Refugee Commission (2017) C1

Nepal Demographic And Health Survey 2006

Ministry of Health and Population, Family Health Division, USAID; New Era (2007) C1

First Bangladesh National Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey 2010-2011

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate-General of Health Services, Mycobacterial Disease Control, National Tuberculosis Control Programme (2013) C_WHO

Global AIDS Response: Country Progress Report Nigeria 2015

National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA); UNAIDS; Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2015) C1

Contextual Influences of Modern Contraceptive Use among Rural Women in Rwanda and Nepal

Wang, Wenjuan, Soumya Alva, Rebecca Winter, and Clara Burgert ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Analytical Studies No. 41