the aid library

Filter

7368

Prevention, Screening and Control of Common Non-Communicable Diseases: Hypertension, Diabetes an Common Cancers (Oral, Breast, Cervix)

National Health Mission (2016) CC

Comprehensive Primary Health Care has an important role in the primary and secondary prevention of several disease conditions, including non-communicable diseases which today contribute to over 60% of the mortality in India. The provision of Compreh ... more

Accelerating the Reduction of Malaria Morbidity and Mortality (ARM3),Benin: Summary of Key Achievements

Medical Care Development International (2018) C2

Benin’s National Malaria Strategy calls for eliminating malaria as a public health threat by 2030. ARM3 was developed to measurably and significantly speed up progress toward that goal.

Rethinking the Top-Down Approach to Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination in Sub-Saharan Africa

Onasanya A. et al. (2021) CC

Front. Public Health 9:622809 The control and elimination of schistosomiasis have over the last two decades involved several strategies, with the current strategy by the World ... more

Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
recommended

Child Protection Working Group (2019) CC

The Child Protection handbook provides a synthesis of good practice and learning and enables better advocacy and communication on child protection risks, needs and responses. Standards addressing child protection needs cover core work areas and critical issues. Those addressing ... more

Turning point for Africa

Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS (UNAIDS) (2018) C1

An historic opportunity to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 and launch a new era of sustainability
A decade of progress has inspired the once unthinkable—that the AIDS epidemic can be ended as a public ... more

Every Newborn Action Plan: An Action Plan to End Preventable Deaths in Malawi

Government of Malawi (2013) C2

Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths is a roadmap for change. It takes forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health by focusing specific attention on newborn ... more

UNHCR Cholera Response Plan October 2022-March 2023

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2022) CC

The UNHCR Cholera Response Plan (October 2022 – March 2023) outlines efforts to combat the cholera outbreak in Lebanon, which was declared in October 2022. The plan, led by the Ministry of Public Health with support from UNHCR, WHO, UNICEF, and NG ... more

Checklist and reference list for developing and reviewing a national strategic plan for HIV

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The checklist and reference list has two parts: high-level cross-cutting content (Part A) and specific programme content (Part B). Part A applies to all countries and contains situation and response analysis, the NSP development process, the goal, targets and priority-setting of the NSP and the prin ... more

Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care - Review

Laurant M, van der Biezen M, Wijers N et al. Cochrane Library (2018) CC

Current and expected problems such as ageing, increased prevalence of chronic conditions and multi-morbidity, increased emphasison healthy lifestyle and prevention, and substitution for care from hospitals by care provided in the community encourage ... more

The elimination of human African trypanosomiasis: Achievements in relation to WHO road map targets for 2020

Franco JR, Cecchi G, Paone M, Diarra A, Grout L, (2022) CC

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a lethal neglected tropical disease (NTD) transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies. The disease is also known as “sleeping sickness”. During the 20th century it caused enormous suffering in the endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa. HAT transmission l ... more

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs): Non Communicable Diseases NCD Module 13. Facilitators Manual

Ministry of Health, Division of Community Health Services, Division of Non-Communicable Diseases (2015) CC

This training module is meant to strengthen the capacity of CHVs to prevent the Non Communicable Diseases at the community level . The Government of Kenya is committed to supporting community ... more

IRC Health Strategy 2023-2027

International Rescue Committee (2023) CC

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a leading humanitarian agency dedicated to helping people whose lives have been shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Health comprises nearly half of IRC ... more

Zambia's Community Health Assistancts (CHAs)

UK Aid; Clinton Health Access Iniative (2016) CC

An exploration of facilitators and challenges in the scale-up of a national, public sector community health worker cadre in Zambia: a qualitative study

S. Chauwa Phiri, M.Lippitt Prust, C. Phiri Chibawe, et al. (2017) CC

Phiri et al. Human Resources for Health (2017) 15:40 DOI 10.1186/s12960-017-0214-3

Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, 2016-2030
recommended

Flavia Bustreo, Shyama Kuruvilla, Marleen Temmerman et al Every Woman Every Child (2015) C_WHO

The new Global Strategy aims to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents, transform the future and ensure that every newborn, mother and child not on ... more

2 million African community health workers - Harnessing the demographic dividend, ending AIDS and ensuring sustainable health for all in Africa

UNAIDS (2017) CC

This report makes the case for a major new initiative—to rapidly recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers in Africa. Drawing on a vast body of evidence and substantial regional ... more

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs). Basic Modules Handbook

Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Health (2013) C2

Keeping community health workers in Uganda motivated: key challenges, facilitators, and preferred program inputs

Bruniea, A.; P. Wamala-Mucheri, C. Otterness, et al. (2014) CC

Glob Health Sci Pract February 1, 2014 vol. 2 no. 1 p. 103-116

Ethiopia's community-based health insurance: A step on the road to Universal Health Coverage

USAID; Health Finance & Governance (2015) C1

Intergrating Microfinace and Community Health Interventions: A Narrative Review of Evidences from India

Sheila Leatherman, Somen Saha, Marcia Metcalfe, Dileep Mavalankar (2014)