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Global air pollution exposure and poverty

Rentschler, J.; Leonova, N. Nature Communications (2023) CC

Air pollution is one of the leading causes of health complications and mortality worldwide, especially affecting lower-income groups, who tend to be more exposed and vulnerable. This study documents the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and poverty in 211 countries and territories. ... more

Guidelines for Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Indian Council of Medical Research (2022) CC2

The ICMR type 1 diabetes guidelines come at a time when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disproportionately affected people with diabetes population, exposing them to a high risk for severe illness and mortality. Globally, diabetes was responsible for over fourmillion deaths in the year 2019. It was th ... more

Burden of fungal asthma in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Kwizera, R.; Musaazi, J.; Meya, D.B.; et al. PLOS ONE, which is part of the Public Library of Science (PLOS) (2019) CC2

Asthma is one of the neglected diseases in Africa with a high prevalence. Allergic fungal diseases have been reported to complicate asthma progression and treatment outcomes. However, data about fungal asthma and its associated complications are limited in Africa. We aimed to estimate the burden of ... more

Asthma in South African adolescents: a time trend and risk factor analysis over two decades

Baard, C.B.; Franckling-Smith, Z.; Munro, J. et al. ERJ Open Research (2021) CC

The article "Asthma in South African adolescents: a time trend and risk factor analysis over two decades" investigates the prevalence and risk factors for asthma in Cape Town adolescents from 2002 to 2017. The study finds that while the overall prevalence of asthma remained similar, the severity of ... more

Risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren who participated in a casecontrol study in urban Uganda

Mpairwe, H.; Namutebi, M.; Nkurunungi, G. et al. eLife (2019) CC

Data on asthma aetiology in Africa are scarce. We investigated the risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren (5–17 years) in urban Uganda. We conducted a case-control study, among 555 cases and 1115 controls. Asthma was diagnosed by study clinicians. The main risk factors for asthma were tertia ... more

Review of 2022 World Health Organization guidelines on the control and elimination of schistosomiasis

Nathan, C.L.; F.S.M. Bezerra, D.G.Colley, (2022) CC

Lancet Infectious Diseases Volume 22, Issue 11e327-e335. In February, 2022, WHO published new guidelines with six recommendations to update the global public health strategy against schistosomiasis, including expansion of preventive chemotherapy eligibility from the predominant group of school-age ... more

Tome medidas para controlar la tuberculosis (TB) si tiene el HIV

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2022) C_CDC

Las personas con el VIH también corren el riesgo de contraer TB. Lea este folleto hoy para aprender sobre la TB y el VIH. Luego comparta lo que aprenda con su familia y sus amigos.

Policy Options to retain Nurses in Rural Liberia: Evidence from a discrete Choice Experiment

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia and the World Bank (2010) C1

Water and sanitation budget brief (2011/12-2015/16)

UNICEF (2016)

A Year in Focus, WHO Sierra Leone: Annual Report 2015

World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Mission Rabies Annual Report 2018

Mission Rabies (2018) CC

2018 has been one of the most successful years ever for Mission Rabies. We are on the cusp of having almost vaccinated one million dogs in global rabies hotspots, we’ve educated over two million children and we’re seeing a dramatic reduction in both human and canine rabies in all our flagship ... more

PHC Chapter 7: Family planning : Introduction to contraception - 2020-3 7.1

National Department of Health South Africa (2020) CC

Updated Guidelines

Sharing successful strategies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region in mitigating noncommunicable diseases and mentalhealth disorders during the COVID-19pandemic and beyond

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (2023) C_WHO

The "Stories from the field" document by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean shares effective strategies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region for addressing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights regio ... more

L'enfance à Madagascar: une promesse d'avenir - Analyse de la situation de la mère et de l'enfant

UNICEF Madagascar (2014)

Northeast Nigeria Humanitarian Response - COVID-19 Response: Health Sector Bulletin - November 2020

Government of Nigeria Health Cluster World Health Organization (2020) CC

Flash Appeal: Tremblement de Terre en Haïti (août 2021)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2021) CC

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Abuses and Denial of Aid Endangering Ethnic Minorities in Northern Myanmar

Refugees International (2018) C1

In northern Myanmar, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in displacement camps in Kachin and northern Shan States. Most were first displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army in 2011, and many have been displaced multiple times, including in recent months. ... more

An analysis of funding patterns in development assistance for mental health: who, when, what, and where

Gribble RSF, Liese BH, Wickremsinhe MN Global Mental Health (2021) C1

Background: Mental health has recently gained increasing attention on global health and development agendas, including calls for an increase in international funding. Few studies have previously characterized official development assistance for mental health (DAMH) in a nuanced and differentiated ma ... more

india: Guidelines for Storage of 2nd -Line Anti-TB-Drugs for Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP)

Government of India, Central Tuberculosis Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2011) C1