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A systematic review of healthcare-associated infections in Africa: An antimicrobial resistance perspective

Emmanuel O. Irek, Adewale A. Amupitan, Temitope O. Obadare, Aaron O. Aboderin (2018) CC

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 7, No 2 | a796 | 06 December 2018

The impact of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on TB risk in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P. J. Dodd; A. J. Prendergas; C. Beecroft; et al. BMJ Journals (2017) CC

BMJ,Dodd PJ, et al. Thorax 2017;72:559–575. doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209421

UNHCR Greece Factsheet - July 2020

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

This month 600 people reached Greece, mostly to Lesvos island. UNHCR with IOM and UNICEF welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied children from Greece to Portugal and Finland and called for more. The need for such solutions is high as only one in four has a place in a shelter. The prematu ... more

Diagnostics atlas of intrathoracic tuberculosis in children

R. Gie International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2003)

Ebola and beyond: Equality, sustainability, security - interlaced challenges in a global development era

Leach, M. (2014)

This paper, originally presented as a Sussex Development Lecture, asks how the Ebola crisis might offer a lens to reflect on interlaced challenges around curbing inequalities, accelerating sustainability, and building inclusive, secure societies, and why these matter so much. And it discusses why ad ... more

Epidemiology of Peripheral Artery Disease and Polyvascular Disease

Aday A.W.; Matsushita, K. Circulation Research (2021) CC

Atherosclerotic lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is increasingly recognized as an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that affects more than 230 million people worldwide. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, including advanced age, smoking, and diabetes, are ... more

Use of the WHO Access, Watch, and Reserve classification to define patterns of hospital antibiotic use (AWaRe): an analysis of paediatric survey data from 56 countries

Hsia Y., B. R Lee, A. Versporten, et al The Lancet (2019) C2

Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO’s global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable globally. ... more

Fueling the Philippines’ HIV Epidemic

Human Rights Watch (2016) C1

Government Barriers to Condom Use by Men Who Have Sex With Men

Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic

Feng,S.; Chen Shen, Nan Xia, et al. (2020) C2

Lancet Respir Med 2020Published OnlineMarch 20, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30134-

Efficacy and Safety of Pafuramidine versus Pentamidine Maleate for Treatment of First Stage Sleeping Sickness in a Randomized, Comparator-Controlled, International Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Pohlig G, Bernhard SC, Blum J, Burri C, Mpanya A, PLOS Neclected Tropical Diseases (2016) CC

This was a Phase 3, multi-center, randomized, open-label, parallel-group, active control study where 273 male and female patients with first stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense HAT were treated at six sites: one trypanosomiasis reference center in Angola, one hospital in South Sudan, and four hospita ... more

For every child, every right. The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019)

Thirty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child at a moment of rapid global change marked by the end of apartheid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth of the World Wide Web. These developments and more brought momentous and lasting evolut ... more

Compendium of Gender Equality and HIV Indicators

Shelah S. Bloom and Svetlana Negroustoueva MEASURE Evaluation (2013)

The intended purpose of this compendium is to provide program managers, organizations, and policy makers with a menu of indicators to better “know their HIV epidemic/know their response” from a gender perspective. The indicators in the compendium are all either part of existing indicators used i ... more

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

Toma, Iulia; Chowdhury, Mita; Laiju, Mushfika; Gora, Nina; Padamada, Nicola Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children (2018) C1

This gender analysis was conducted to understand the different risks and vulnerabilities but also opportunities and skills for Rohingya and host community women, men, boys and girls. Data collection was conducted over three weeks from 8 April to 29 April 2018. The work aimed to identify the differen ... more

CONSENSUS DOCUMENT FOR MANAGEMENT OF Multiple Myelo

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2017) C1

Prepared as an outcome of ICMR Subcommittee on Multiple Myeloma | This consensus document on management of multiple myeloma summarizes the modalities of treatment including the site-specific anti-cancer therapies, supportive and palliative care and molecular markers and research questions. It also i ... more

South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan January 2020 — December 2021

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) CC

Addendum: 2020 mid-year COVID-19 resvision, summary of the reprioritisation & additional requirements in response to COVID-19 In June and July 2020, a mid-year revision of the 2020 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) was undertaken as an inter-agency consultative process to discuss ... more

Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Path ways of Disease an Response

Melissa Leach STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies (2008) C1

Ebola

Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Kenya

International Labour organization, Irish Aid (2009) C1

“Without Education They Lose Their Future” Denial of Education to Child Asylum Seekers on the Greek Islands

Human Rights Watch (2018) C1

This report found that fewer than 15 percent of more than 3,000 school-age asylum-seeking children on the islands were enrolled in public school at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, and that in government-run camps on the islands, only about 100 children, all preschoolers, had access to formal e ... more