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Improving Infection Prevention and Control Practices at Health Facilities in Resource-Limited Settings
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Wonder Goredema Jane Briggs Mupela Ntengu, et al. USAID; SIAPS (2016) C1

SIAPS Technical Report. This report summarizes key accomplishments and lessons learned in implementing SIAPS’ approach to improving IPC practices in four countries: South Africa, Namibia, Jordan, and Ethiopia. All activities address SIAPS’s overall objective to build or enhance national and faci ... more

Missed Opportunities for Early Access to Care of HIV-Infected Infants in Burkina Faso

Coulibaly M., N. Meda, C. Yonaba et al. PLOS ONE (2014) C2

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIVinfected children before the age of two since 2010, but this implies an early identification of these infants. We described the Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) cascade, the ... more

Readiness for influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

5 Nov. 2020 The policy brief provides a concise summary of information and considerations to ensure optimal management of influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a list of technical guidance and other resources to assist policy makers with monitoring the situation, preventing seasonal i ... more

Covid-19 pandemic impact on maternal and child health services access in Nampula, Mozambique: a mixed methods research

das Neves Martins Pires P.H. , Macaringue C. , Abdirazak A. et al. BMC Health Services (2021) CC

The Covid-19 pandemic has so far infected more than 30 million people in the world, having major impact on global health with collateral damage. In Mozambique, a public state of emergency was declared at the end of March 2020. This has limited people's movements and reduced public services, leading ... to a decrease in the number of people accessing health care facilities. An implementation research project, The Alert Community for a Prepared Hospital, has been promoting access to maternal and child health care, in Natikiri, Nampula, for the last four years. Nampula has the second highest incidence of Covid-19. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of Covid-19 pandemic Government restrictions on access to maternal and child healthcare services. We compared health centres in Nampula city with healthcare centres in our research catchment area. We wanted to see if our previous research interventions have led to a more resilient response from the community. METHODS: Mixed-methods research, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective, using a review of patient visit documentation. We compared maternal and child health care unit statistical indicators from March-May 2019 to the same time-period in 2020. We tested for significant changes in access to maternal and child health services, using KrushKall Wallis, One-way Anova and mean and standard deviation tests. We compared interviews with health professionals, traditional birth attendants and patients in the two areas. We gathered data from a comparable city health centre and the main city referral hospital. The Marrere health centre and Marrere General Hospital were the two Alert Community for a Prepared Hospital intervention sites. RESULTS: Comparing 2019 quantitative maternal health services access indicators with those from 2020, showed decreases in most important indicators: family planning visits and elective C-sections dropped 28%; first antenatal visit occurring in the first trimester dropped 26%; hospital deliveries dropped a statistically significant 4% (p = 0.046), while home deliveries rose 74%; children vaccinated down 20%. CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrated the negative collateral effects of Covid-19 pandemic Government restrictions, on access to maternal and child healthcare services, and highlighted the need to improve the health information system in Mozambique. more

Public health management of persons having had contact with Ebola virus disease cases in the EU

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2014)

Nigeria: reducing the indirect causes of maternal morbidity and mortality: the RICOM3 Project

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Nigeria reported its first case of COVID-19 at the end of February 2020 and subsequently experienced four waves, with peaks in June 2020 and January, August and December 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the economy of Nigeria and caused disruption of health services nationwide. During ... more

Brochure: Protection and promotion of human rights in mental health

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023) C_WHO

PAHO advocates for countries to comply with the international conventions they have signed and ratified on health-related issues, and in this specific case, to promote and protect the human rights of people with mental health problems.

Quality of stroke guidelines in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Yaria, J.; Gil, A.; Makanjuola, A. et al. Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2021) C_WHO

Objective: To identify gaps in national stroke guidelines that could be bridged to enhance the quality of stroke care services in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: We systematically searched medical databases and websites of medical societies and contacted international organizations. Co ... more

National Training Package on Provider-initated Paediatric HIV Testing & Counselling in Zambia.Participant Manual
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ICAP; CDC; University Teaching Hospital,; Ministry of Health, Zambia, et al. (2013) C1

Kenya Quality Model for Health

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2015) C2

Quality Standards for community health services Level 1

Community-based rehabilitation: CBR guidelines - Health component
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Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, WHO (2010) C_WHO

Available in: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Tajik, Vietnamese, Uzbek http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/

Atlas of Health and Climate

World Health Organization WHO Word Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies ... more

Child Health Services in Kenya

Annah Wamae, George Kichamu, Francis Kundu, Irene Muhunzu Kenya Working Papers (2009) C1

Based on further analysis of the 2004 Kenya Service Provision Assessment Survey

Pioneer Project: A holistic systems strengthening approach towards Malaria control in Mid-Western Uganda

Malaria Consortium and Comic Relief (2014) C1

Successes and lessons

WHO disability-inclusive health services training package: a companion to the Disability-inclusive health services toolkit

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO Disability-Inclusive Health Services Training Package is a companion to the “WHO Disability-Inclusive Health Services Toolkit: A resource for health facilities in the Western Pacific Region” published by WHO in 2020. This package offers a range of additional training materials including ... more

Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Ebola virus disease

M. Bray, M.S.Hirsch, D.Mitty, et al. (2015)

Up-to-date Literature review current through: Jan 2015. | This topic last updated: Jan 29, 2015.

South Africa’s capacity to conduct antimicrobial stewardship

Chetty, S. Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases (2021) CC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a serious public health threat was globally acknowledged by WHO in 2015, through the launch of the Global Action Plan (GAP). With a limited number of new antibiotics in the developmental pipeline, many countries are in the process of establishing strategies for anti ... more

Guidance document on appropriate management of suspect/confirmed cases of COVID-19

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services EMR Division Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services EMR Division (2020) C2

Accessed: 20.04.2020

Spiritual Needs and Care of Patients from Nurses’ Perspectives on ICU

Ku, Ya Lie Journal of Nursing Care (2016) C2

The semi-structured guided interviewing on ICU nurses in a medical center of southern Taiwan wasapproved by the IRB at the research department of the hospital and data collection was carried out from January toJune 2012. The investigator repeatedly read the transcribed text, and found statements rel ... more

Situational Brief: Impact of Covid-19 on forcibly displaced persons inside Syria

Marzouk M., Rayes D., Y. Douedari et al. Lancet Migration (2020) CC

Over nine years of protracted and violent conflict in Syria has decimated its health system,killed an estimated 586,000 people and forcibly displaced more than half the 22 million pre-war population from their homes. As of June 2020, a total of 6.2 million Syrians (of whom 40% are children) are inte ... more