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Climate-induced migration and health issues - A toolkit for policymakers

International Institute for Environment and Developmend (IIED) OCHA Services Reliefweb (2022) C2

Loss and damage is an urgent concern, driven by the increasingly harmful effects of climate change. Communities are experiencing new types and forms of climate impact, of higher frequency and intensity, which they are not equipped to handle. These impacts compel vulnerable communities to migrate to ... more

WHO interim guidance note: health workforce response to the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This guidance note identifies strategic action for policy-makers and managers at the national, subnational and facility level to address these different challenges.

Regulatory guidance for assessment and management of applications for marketing authorization of oxytocin

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Pharmaceutical regulators are at the forefront of ensuring that only safe and effective medicines are authorized and available in the market. This document builds on the recommendations in the above publication and has been prepared to specifically assist national medicines regulatory authorities to ... more

Guidelines on optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants

Karen Edmond, Rajiv Bahl, MD, PhD WHO (2011)

Vaccination in Acute Humanitarian Emergencies - A Framework for Decision Making
recommended

World Health Organization (2018) CC

Humanitarian emergencies, regardless of type and cause, have a number of common risk factors for communicable diseases inextricably linked to excess risk of morbidity and mortality which can come from vaccine–preventable diseases (VPDs). The reduction of VPDs is a significant aim of public-health ... more

ACAPS Briefing Note: Zimbabwe - Tropical Cyclone Idai - Update 1 (26 March 2018)

Assessment Capacities Project (2019) C1

Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2021

United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (2021) C1

While the world was gripped by the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, children continued to face the same crisis they have for decades: intolerably high mortality rates and vastly inequitable chances at life. In total, more than 5.0 million children under age 5, including 2.4 million newborns, alo ... more

Indicators of young women’s modern contraceptive use in Burkina Faso and Mali from Demographic and Health Survey data

Regan A., Thompson G. (2017) C2

nContraception and Reproductive Medicine (2017) 2:26 DOI 10.1186/s40834-017-0053-6 Young women in Burkina Faso and Mali are increasingly using modern contraceptives for family planning; however, the LAPM contraceptive prevalence rate remains low. Our analysis indicates that social norms around idea ... more

Global AIDS Monitoring 2020

UNAIDS UNAIDS (2019) C2

Guidance Indicators for monitoring the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Housing at the forefront of the response to COVID-19: Discussion paper on policy options for Myanmar

UN-HABITAT (2020) C1

Urban poor communities including the homeless, residents of informal settlements, residents at risk of being evicted, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), undocumented persons, low-income renters, as well as homeowners are perhaps at greatest risk from both COVID-19 and the response interventions to ... more

Guidelines on Estimating the Size of Populations Most at Risk to HIV

UNAIDS; World Health Organization (2010) C_WHO

UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance

WHO Ghana 2022 annual report
recommended

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

“2022 was an eventful year for the WHO Country Office in Ghana,” says Dr Francis Kasolo, WHO Representative to Ghana. In 2022, WHO Ghana collaborated with partners to deliver interventions in support of the Government of Ghana's health sector agenda to ensure healthy lives for all towards ach ... more

HIV Programme Review in Albania: Antiretroviral therapy and procurement and supply management

J. V. Lazarus; M. Gottfredsson; N. Tavagnutti World Health Organization (Europe); Centre for Health & Infectious Disease Research (2015) C_WHO

March 2015

Revised National Guidelines on Mpox

Wasif Malik, M.; et al. National Institute of Health, Pakistan (2024) CC

This document serves to provide interim guidance/ recommendations to carry out mpox surveillance activities mainly case investigation, contact tracing and isolation. For the development of this document WHO, UKHSA and CDC guidelines were referred to and adopted within the country context.

Public Health Advice on preventing health effects of heat

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2011) C_WHO

New and updated information. Adverse health effects of hot weather and heat-waves are largely preventable. Prevention requires a portfolio of actions at different levels:from health system preparedness, coordinated with meteorological early warning systems, to timely public ... more

Uganda: National Condom Programming Strategy 2013-2015

Ministry of Health, Republic of Uganda (2013) C1

National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), India, 2015-16: Haryana

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF (2017) C2

HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge among Persons with Physical Disability in Cameroon: A Qualitative Study

Tarkang EE, Gbogbo S, Lutala PM Journal of AIDS and HIV Infections (2015) C1

Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

United Nations UN (2020) C2

The World Medicines Situation 2011

Milani, B.; and W. Scholten World Health Organization WHO (2011) CC

Access to controlled medicines. 3rd edition