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2024 global AIDS report — The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

UNAIDS (2024) CC

This UNAIDS 2024 report brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of millions of lives and whether the world’s deadliest pandemic is overcome.

Guidance Note on Disability and Emergency Risk Management for Health

World Health Organization; UNICEF; UNISDR; et al. (2013) C_WHO

This guidance note is intended primarily for health actors working in emergency and disaster risk management (hereafter 'emergency risk management') at the local, national or international level, and in governmental or nongovernmental agencies. People with disabilities, those ... more

WHO Sierra Leone Country Cooperation Strategy 2022–2025

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Country Cooperation Strategy is the World Health Organization’s corporate framework developed in response to a country’s needs and priorities. The 2022–2025 CCS is the fourth for WHO in Sierra Leone. It is a medium-term strategic document that defines a broad framework for WHO’s work, at ... more

Kinderarbeits-Report 2016

Terre des Hommes (2016) C1

Diese Studie liefert einschlägige Informationen aus erster Hand über die Lebenswirklichkeit von syrischen Kindern, die arbeiten müssen: in ihrem Heimatland, in den Nachbarstaaten oder in Europa. Der syrische Bürgerkrieg ist die schlimmste humanitäre Katastrophe unserer Zeit. Hunderttausende Men ... more

How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public: best practice guidance
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World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

This guidance document provides basic principles for a spokesperson of any health authority on how to respond to vocal vaccine deniers. The suggestions are based on psychological research on persuasion, on research in public health, communication studies and on WHO risk communication guidelines.

Report from the scoping consultation on severe bacterial infections among people with advanced HIV disease

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

Severe bacterial infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among people with advanced HIV disease, after tuberculosis and cryptococcal disease. For countries to reach the end-AIDS targets for 2030, there is a need to establish a roadmap for managing severe bacterial infections and re ... more

2020 Brazilian Thoracic Association recommendations for the management of asthma

Menezes Pizzichini, M. M.; de Carvalho-Pinto, R. M.; Delfini Cançado, J. E.; et al. (2020) CC2

The pharmacological management of asthma has changed considerably in recent decades, as it has come to be understood that it is a complex, heterogeneous disease with different phenotypes and endotypes. It is now clear that the goal of asthma treatment should be to achieve and maintain control of the ... more

The Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development (APCMHD) Project

Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development Project (2008) C1

The Asia-Pacific Community Mental Health Development (APCMHD) project has been established in 2005 to explore diverse leading models or approaches to community mental health service delivery in the Asia-Pacific region. The objective is to illustrate and promote best practice in mental health care in ... more

Youth-Friendly Services - A Manual for Service Providers

EngenderHealth (2002)

All young people, including those with special needs and from the most vulnerable groups, have the right to quality health care services. Unfortunately, this right is not a reality, particularly in the case of sexual and reproductive health services. Many youth in need of sexual and reproductive hea ... more

Forced Migration review

M. Couldrey; M. Herson University of Oxford; Refugee Study Centre; UNFPA; SSRC; UNAIDS (2010) C2

Supplement October 2010 HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: making the connections

Global report on diabetes 1. Diabetes Mellitus – epidemiology. 2. Diabetes Mellitus – prevention and control. 3. Diabetes, Gestational. 4. Chronic Disease

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Diabetes is an important public health problem, one of four priority noncom ... more

How your community can prevent the spread of COVID-19
recommended

IFRC, UNICEF and WHO (2020) C_UNICEF

This document, produced by IFRC, UNICEF and WHO, suggests key actions on how people and communities can stay safe and slow down the spread of COVID-19, particularly for contexts where you might have been asked by your local authorities to maintain physical distance or stay home. Available in: Arabi ... more

Antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region: current status and roadmap for action

Essack S.Y., A.T. Desta, R.E. Abotsi et al. Journal of Public Health (2016) C2

The escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic is a global public health threat with extensive health, economic and societal implications. Resistance emerges because of selection pressure from rational and indiscriminate antimicrobial use in human health as well as in the veterinary, agricul ... more

“Do not remain silent”: Survivors of Sexual violence in South Sudan call for justice and reparations

Amnesty International (2017) C1

Nigeria: National HIV & AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey, 2012 (NARHS Plus)

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2013) C1

Standards for TB Care in India

DOTS, WHO (2014) C_WHO

Sierra Leone: A Guide for Detecting and Reporting adverse Drug Reactions

Drug Safety Monitoring Programme; Pharmacy Board Sierra Leone; Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone (2005) C1