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Guidance to facilitate monitoring and evaluation for antimicrobial resistance national action plans

Quadripartite: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO; UN Environment Programme UNEP; World Health Organization WHO; World Organisation for Animal Health WAHO (2023) CC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global human, animal, plant and environment health threat that needs to be addressed by every country. The impacts of AMR are wide-ranging in terms of human health, animal health, food security and safety, environmental effects on ecosystems and biodiversity, and ...socioeconomic development. Just like the climate crisis, AMR poses a significant threat to the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The response to the AMR crisis has been spearheaded through the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance (GAP-AMR), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015, in close collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and formally endorsed by the three organizations’ governing bodies and by the Political Declaration of the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on AMR in 2016. In 2022, the three organizations officially became the Quadripartite by welcoming the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) into the alliance “to accelerate coordination strategy on human, animal and ecosystem health”. The aim of the GAP-AMR is to ensure the continuity of successful treatment with effective and safe medicines. Its strategic objectives include: • improving the awareness and understanding of AMR; • strengthening the knowledge and evidence base through surveillance and research; • reducing the incidence of infection through effective sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention measures; optimizing the use of antimicrobial medicines in human and animal health; and • developing the economic case for sustainable investment that takes account of the needs of all countries and increasing investment in new medicines, diagnostic tools, vaccines and other interventions. With the adoption of the GAP-AMR, countries agreed to develop national action plans (NAPs) aligned with the GAP-AMR to mainstream AMR interventions nationally. Individually, the Quadripartite took action to advance AMR interventions in their respective sectors. FAO adopted a resolution on AMR recognizing that it poses an increasingly serious threat to public health and sustainable food production, and developed an AMR action plan to support the resolution’s implementation. For its part, WOAH developed a strategy on AMR aligned with the GAP-AMR, acknowledging the importance of a One Health approach to AMR. Similarly, more recently, UNEP’s governing body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, recognized that AMR is a current and increasing threat and a challenge to global health, food security and the sustainable development of all countries, and welcomed the GAP-AMR and the NAPs developed in accordance with its five overarching strategic objectives more

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Fighting Cholera - Operational Handbook: Response to outbreaks and risk prevention in endemic areas

Solidarités International (2018) CC

Cholera is a diarrhoeal disease that is usually contracted when drinking water contaminated with Vibrio cholerae bacteria. The fight against this disease requires a multidisciplinary approach that combines a water, hygiene and sanitation (WaSH) response with a monitoring system, improved water suppl... more

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Trachoma Control a Guide for Programme Managers

Solomon, A.W.; M. Zondervan, H. Kuper, et al. WHO, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the International Trachoma Initiative (2006) C_WHO

This guide has been written for managers of national and district trachoma control programmes. It sets out, step-by-step, what is needed to assess the magnitude and extent of the trachoma problem in the area and how to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a programme to control, and ultimately elim... more

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Guideline for Management, prevention and Control of Nipah Virus Infection including Encephalitis

Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (2011) C1

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Counseling the Obstetric Fistula Client

EngenderHealthFistuale Care (2012)

A Trainings Curriculum

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Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study

Masumbuko ClaudeK, Underschultz J,Hawkes MT (2019) CC

PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104. The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o... more

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Community-based rehabilitation: CBR guidelines - Introductory booklet (chinese)

Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, et al. WHO (2011) C_WHO

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PIH Guide to the Medical Management of MDR-TB

USAID; TB Care; DRTB Training Network (2014) C1

This guide is a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Clinical Illness and Outcomes in Patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone
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Schieffelin, JS.; J.G. Shaffer; A. Goba, et al. (2014)

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Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Humanitarian Settings: Select Signal Functions

Women's Refugee Commission (2017) C1

Facilitator's Guide Refresher Training Module for Health Care Providers implementing the MISP Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises Training Partnership

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Intervention On the road to peace of mind - A guidebook

Dr Nancy Baron War Trauma Foundation (2009)

An applied approach to the training of trainers who, in turn, train teams to implement psychosocial and mental health interventions in developing countries affected by emergencies. The film On the Road to Peace of Mind, used in conjunction with this guidebook, presents an applied Traini... more

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The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook
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The Center for Health Market Innovations. (2015) C1

Voices from Leaders in the Field

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Ghana’s National Health insurance scheme and maternal and child health: a mixed methods study

Kavita Singh, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Frank Otchere et al. BMC Health Services Research (2015) C1

Ghana is attracting global attention for efforts to provide health insurance to all citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). With the program’s strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the program is that members will have increased use of relevant servi... more

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Childhood TB - Training Toolkit

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2014) CC

The training focuses on building the capacity of health care workers at the primary and secondary level to address and manage TB in children.

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Namibia: Guidelines on mobile orthopaedic technical services

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2014) C1

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Guía práctica para mejorar la política pública - Intervenciones para combatir la desnutrición crónica infantil

Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL) (2014) C1

Esta guía está dirigida a los encargados de tomar decisiones sobre la formulación, operación o evaluación de programas o estrategias orientadas a mejorar la nutrición o alimentación. Su principal objetivo es brindar a los lectores herramientas para determinar la conveniencia de instrumentar d... more