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The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This report is the annual global monitoring report documenting progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets 2.1 and 2.2. This year’s report explores the links between urbanization and changing food systems and how these changes are impacting the availability, affordability and des ... more

Hidden victims of the Syrian crisis: disabled, injured and older refugee

Handicap International and HelpAge International: (2014) C1

New research published today shows that older, disabled and injured Syrian refugees are paying a double toll as a result of the conflict. The report, released by Handicap International and HelpAge International, provides new data showing how much these vulnerable refugees are struggling to meet thei ... more

Zimbabwe's national AIDS levy: A case study

Nisha Bhat, Peter H. Kilmarx, Freeman Dube, et al. Tylor & Francis (2016)

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 13:1, 1-7, DOI: 10.1080/17290376.2015.1123646

Nepal: Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2014

Ministry of Agricultural Development (2014) C1

West & Central Africa HIV catch-up - WHO in an era of transformation

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Transformation Agenda (TA) ushered in an ambitious reform process intended to transform the World Health Organization (WHO) into an organization that is proactive, results-driven, accountable and which meets stakeholder expectations, towards transforming and improving public health services in t ... he African Region. It aimed to achieve a WHO that is pro-results, which optimally and creatively targets technical work as well as make operations more responsive, with greater effectiveness in both communications and partnerships. The Africa Region has been the epicentre of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and it’s one of the leading causes of disease and death on the continent. The WHO, with partners, has worked tirelessly for many years to control the threat and reduce the negative impact of the disease. Since the early 2000s, significant progress has been made in the global fight against the scourge of HIV. However, the WCA subregion was falling concerningly behind ESA on several key indicators of progress. In 2016, the WHO joined UNAIDS, UNICEF and other partners in a call for a strong and urgent response to support WCA countries to develop catch-up plans to triple and fast-track ART coverage, to enable the region to catch up with ESA by the end of 2020. Implementation of a widespread test-and-treat strategy, coupled with the scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD) and mobilization of requisite funding, accelerated WCA’s progress towards this goal. The HIV treatment catch-up and fast-track plan has achieved its target of seeing the West and Central African region (WCA) catch up with the Eastern and Southern African region’s (ESA) antiretroviral coverage rate of 78% in 2021, albeit later than the 2020 target time frame. A 33% improvement was achieved in WCA, against 21% in ESA, between 2015–2020. WCA achieved a significant 42% increase, compared to ESA’s 23%, between 2015 and 2021, to see WCA draw level with ESA at 78%. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, progress of up to 47% was observed between 2015 and 2020, for example. In addition, 1.6 million more People Living with HIV (PLHIV) were enrolled on antiretroviral treatment (ART) between 2015 and 2020. more

Country cooperation strategy for WHO and Syrian Arab Republic: 2022-2025

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) defines the Organization’s medium-term vision for working in and with a particular country. The CCS, developed in the context of global and national health priorities, examines the overall health situation in a country, including the state of the health s ... more

WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities - Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2012) C_WHO

FAO South Sudan Emergency Livelihood Response Programme January 2014 ‐ December 2015

Food and Agriculture Organization (2014)

Plan of Action for the Elimination of Neglected Infectious Diseases and Post-Elimination Actions 2016-2022

Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas (2016) C_WHO

Fever Diagnostic Technology Landscape
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UNITAID World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

1st edition. Unitaid’s report describes a slate of new devices that can more efficiently identify dangerously ill children so that they can be treated immediately. These tools make it easier to recognize danger signs, and support integrated approaches to reducing childhood deaths from the three ... more

South Africa Emergency Appeal for the Impact of Covid-19

UNCT South Africa (2020) C2

South Africa reported it fist case of COVID-19 on 5 March 2020. While the first cases were imported, local transmission has led to a rapid increase in the number of cases. As of 21 April 2020, more than 3,400 cases and 58 deaths had been confirmed. On 15 March, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a n ... more

Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response

M. Ballard, Bancroft E., Nesbit J., et al. BMJ Global Health (2020) CC

COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems. Drawing from practitioner expertise across four WHO regions, this article outlines the targete ... more

Sierra Leone: HIV Modes of Transmission and Prevention Response Analysis

National HIV and AIDS Secretariat; Patrick R. Kenya, Prince-Albert Roberts, Joseph Kobba, et al. (2010) C1

WHO standard: universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn ... more

No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections

IACG Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicral Resistance (2019) C_WHO

UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis. If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who release ... more

Bad Bug Book

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2013)

Handbook of Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins

Nigeria: Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS)
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National Malaria Elimination Programme Federal Ministry of Health National Population Commission, National Bureau of Statistics Federal Republic of Nigeria , et al. World Health Organisation (WHO), USAID, The Global Fund, et al. (2016) C_WHO

Liberia: Investment Plan for Building a Resilient Health System 2015-2021

Ministry of Health, Government of Liberia (2015) C1

2021 Humanitarian needs overview Syrian Arab Republic Summary
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2021) C1

Guidelines for Risk Analysis of Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2021) CC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health concern and a food safety issue. When pathogens become resistant to antimicrobial agents they can pose a greater human health risk as a result of potential treatment failure, loss of treatment options and increased likelihood and severi ... more