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Report of the fifth annual meeting of the network of Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region, Accra, Ghana, 23-25 October 2023

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The aim of the meeting was to broaden the network’s initiatives. Preliminary work involved integrating laboratory testing for skin NTDs other than Buruli ulcer, such as cutaneous leishmaniasis, mycetoma, leprosy and yaws, while extending the network’s reach to encompass additional laboratories.

Nigeria: National Guidelines for HIV Counselling and Testing

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2011) C1

Standard operating procedures: responding to a poliovirus event or outbreak
recommended

World Health Organization WHO, CDC; , UNICEF; et al. (2022) C_WHO

Version 4 The purpose of these standard operating procedures (SOPs) is to offer policy guidance and to provide performance standards on how to respond to any type of poliovirus outbreak or event in a timely and effective manner, and specifically, to stop an outbrea ... more

Linking Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) - Practical tools, approaches and case studies

World Health Organization (WHO) and InterAgency Standing Committee (IASC), Save the Children, et al. (2021) C_WHO

Technical Note Recently, the approach to hazardous events has undergone a considerable shift, away from reactive activities focused on managing and responding to events and towards a more proactive process of emergency and disaster risk management (DRM). The ultimate goal of this shift in focus is ... more

Digital Accessibility Toolkit

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2018)

CBM’s approach is based on the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and on CBM’s responsibility to promote accessibility and the principles of universal design in all spheres of its work, including CBM’s digital content and communications. With this ... more

A child is a child

UNICEF (2017) CC

Protecting children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation

Rights-based monitoring and evaluation of national HIV responses

UNAIDS (2019) C_WHO

Criteria and procedures for the verification of elimination of transmission of "T. b. gambiense" to the human population in a given country

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Having established the goal of eliminating transmission of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (g-HAT) to humans, the HAT-e-TAG considered which elements should be developed to assess this goal.

Strategic review of traps and targets for tsetse and African trypanosomiasis control

Kuzoe, F.A.; and S. Schofield UNDPWorld Bank (2005) C_WHO

Tsetse traps and targets (insecticide-impregnated screens) function by attracting the flies to a device that collects and/or kills them. Traps can be used for entomological surveillance, and also for control. Targets are simpler than traps, but are not used for surveillance. They are impregnated wit ... more

Zithromax Management Guide

International Trachoma Initiative (2019) CC

How to successfully apply for, administer, and manage the Zithromax® donation for trachoma elimination

Eliminating Trachoma: Accelerating Towards 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. It is one of 18 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect over one billion of the world’s poorest people.

The End in sight: from collaboration to elimination

International Coaltion for Trachoma Control (2022) CC

ICTC’s 2022-2030 strategic plan spans the critical period running to the end of 2030, the year by which we are striving to achieve the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. This strategic plan is in alignment with the NTD road map, Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Develop ... more

Vision and eye screening implementation handbook

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings. The evidence-based interventions are drawn from the WHO Package of eye care interventions and developed with a focus on del ... more

Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE

The Carter Center, International Trachoma Initiative and Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (2023) CC

The second edition of the Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE manual provides an updated resource for realistically increasing, improving, and supporting gender representation within trachoma elimination efforts at all levels. From the trachoma workforce to the ... more

Monitoring HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction in Prisons: A Human Rights-Based Tool to Prevent Ill Treatment

G. Sander Harm Reduction International; European Union (2016) C2

February 2016

Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative 2021 – 2025 Strategic Plan

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research, ... more

Ethiopia Malaria Operational Plan FY 2018

PEPFAR (2018) C1

Management of Solid Health-Care Waste at Primary Health-Care Centres

Richard Carr, Yves Chartier, Windy Gancayco Prohom et al. WHO (2005) CC

Comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support

Nina Urwantzoff, Ellen Schmitt, Piet Reijer Misereor (2014) C1

Good practice examples from India

Automated Real-time Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for Rapid and Simultaneous Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF System

World Health Organization (2011) C_WHO

Policy Statement