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Improving the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents: guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; World Health Organization WHO (2024) CC

To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities for early learning and education, responsive relationships and connectedness, and opportunities for personal autonomy and self-realization. To prom... more

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Compendium of WHO guidelines and associated standards: ensuring optimum delivery of the cascade of care for patients with tuberculosis
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World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

2nd edition. T The Compendium has been developed as a clear and concise instrument to facilitate the understanding and planning of delivery of high-quality care for everybody affected by TB. It incorporates all recent policy guidance from WHO; follows the care pathway of persons with signs or sympt... more

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Intercountry high-level meeting on health systems strengthening for enhanced tuberculosis prevention and care

World Health Organization Europe (2016) C_WHO

Regional Eastern European and Central Asian project (TB-REP) Copenhagen, Denmark, 26–28 April 2016

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De Diagnóstico y tratamiento de la enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica Guía de Práctica Clínica Nacional - 2016

Ministerio de Salud Argentina (2016) C2

El objetivo es proveer al equipo de salud, una guía de diagnóstico y terapéutica clínica, tanto farmacológica como no farmacológica, con recomendaciones basadas en evidencia de la mejor calidad disponible y adaptada al marco local. Los usuarios de la Guía son todos los integrantes del ... more

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Implementation manual to prevent and control the spread of carbapenem-resistant organisms at the national and health care facility level
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World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This manual presents a compelling case for action on carbapenem-resistant organisms (CROs) and describes the linkages between the prevention and control of CROs and the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). It describes how the eight recommendations contained within the World Health ... more

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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Zambia: Sociodemographic Determinants and Association with Use of Maternal Health Care

Simona, Simona J., Mazuba Muchindu, and Harriet Ntalasha ICF International (2015) C2

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Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Training aids Evidence shows that FGM can cause several physical, mental and sexual health complications in girls and women, and in newborns. Health-care providers play an important role in supporting girls and women living with FGM, and improving their health and well-being. They are in a uniqu... more

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The reality of managing asthma in sub-Saharan Africa – Priorities and strategies for improving care

Mortimer, K.; Masekela, R.; Ozoh, O.; et al. (2022) CC2

Asthma is the most common non-communicable disease in children and remains one of the most common throughout the life course. The great majority of the burden of this disease is seen in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), which have disproportionately high asthma-related mortality relati... more

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Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hyperlipidaemia Care
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania Tanzania Diabetes Association (2014) CC

Case Manangement Training Modules

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CHILDHOOD DISABILITY IN RURAL ZAMBIA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE USE OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES

Hege Johanne Asting Magnussen University of Oslo (2011) C1

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SADC Minimum Standards for Child and Adolescent HIV, TB and Malaria Continuum Of Care and Support (2013-2017)

SADC (2012) C2

SADC Communicable Disease Project Component 5: Scaling-up Child and Adolescent HIV, TB and Malaria Continuum of Care and Support DRAFT POST REGIONAL CONSENSUS AND VALIDATION MEETING Oct 2012

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A good start: advances in early childhood development - Parenting in times of war: supporting caregivers and children in crisis

Katie Murphy, Sandra Maignant, Laura Boone, Sarah Smith Bernard van Leer Foundation (2015) C2

Early Childhood Matters is a journal about early childhood. It looks at specific issues regarding the development of young children, in particular from a psychosocial perspective. It is published twice per year by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. On Page 54 of this issue the article titled: "Par... more

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Surface sampling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): A practical “how to” protocol for health care and public health professionals

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The role of environmental contamination in transmission of COVID-19 virus is currently not clear. This protocol has been designed to determine (viable) virus presence and persistence on fomites in various locations where a patient infected with COVID-19 is currently receiving care or being isolated,... more

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Qualitative assessment of community health workers’ perspective on their motivation in community-based primary health care in rural Malawi

Ndambo, M.K.; Munyaneza, F.; Aron, M.B. et al. BMC Health Services Research (2022) CC

Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) have a positive impact on the provision of community-based primary health care through screening, treatment, referral, psychosocial support, and accompaniment. With a broad scope of work, CHW programs must balance the breadth and depth of tasks to mainta...in CHW motivation for high-quality care delivery. Few studies have described the CHW perspective on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to enhance their programmatic activities. Methods: We utilized an exploratory qualitative study design with CHWs employed in the household model in Neno District, Malawi, to explore their perspectives on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and dissatisfiers in their work. Data was collected in 8 focus group discussions with 90 CHWs in October 2018 and March–April 2019 in seven purposively selected catchment areas. All interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed using Dedoose. Results: Themes of complex intrinsic and extrinsic factors were generated from the perspectives of the CHWs in the focus group discussions. Study results indicate that enabling factors are primarily intrinsic factors such as positive patient outcomes, community respect, and recognition by the formal health care system but can lead to the chal- lenge of increased scope and workload. Extrinsic factors can provide challenges, including an increased scope and workload from original expectations, lack of resources to utilize in their work, and rugged geography. However, a posi- tive work environment through supportive relationships between CHWs and supervisors enables the CHWs. Conclusion: This study demonstrated enabling factors and challenges for CHW performance from their perspec- tive within the dual-factor theory. We can mitigate challenges through focused efforts to limit geographical distance, manage workload, and strengthen CHW support to reinforce their recognition and trust. Such programmatic empha- sis can focus on enhancing motivational factors found in this study to improve the CHWs’ experience in their role. The engagement of CHWs, the communities, and the formal health care system is critical to improving the care provided to the patients and communities, along with building supportive systems to recognize the work done by CHWs for the primary health care systems. more

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Same‐day antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in pregnancy is not associated with viral suppression or engagement in care: A cohort study

Langwenya, Nontokozo; Phillips, Tamsin K.; Brittain, Kirsty et al. (2018) CC

Journal of the International AIDS Society Vol. 21 (2018) e25133
Many prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programmes across Africa initiate HIV-infected (HIV positive) pregnant women on lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the first day of antenatal care (“same-day” initiation... more

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Practical recommendations to the attention of healthcare professionals and health authorities regarding the identification of and care delivered to suspected or confirmed carriers

Superior Health Council (2014)

of highly contagious viruses (of the Ebola or Marburg type) in the context of an epidemic outbreak in West Africa

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The effect of trauma on the brain development of children Evidence-based principles for supporting the recovery of children in care

Sara McLean Australian Institute of Family Studies Child Family Community (2016) C1

CFCA PRACTICE RESOURCE – JUNE 2016 ~ CHILD FAMILY COMMUNITY AUSTRALIA┃INFORMATION EXCHANGE ~ This practice paper provides an overview of what we know from research about cognitive development in children who have experienced trauma, and provides principles to support effective practice respons... more

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Serving the needs of Key Populations: Case examples of innovation and good practice in HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care

A. Armstrong; C. Irvine; C. Figueroa; A. Verster; R. Baggaley et al. World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO

Key Populations

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Young doctors’ perspectives on antibiotic use and resistance: a multinational and inter-specialty cross-sectional European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) survey

Beovic B., M. Dousak, C. Pulcini et al. Oxford University Press (2019) C2

Antibiotic resistance has been recognized as a major global health threat and optimizing prescribing is one of the most effective measures to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics. The quality of prescribing depends mostly on those prescribers belonging to clinical medical specialties... more

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Target product profile for a rapid test for diagnosis of Buruli ulcer at the primary health-care level

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

In 2009, WHO’s Second International Conference on Buruli Ulcer Control and Research resolved to strengthen the capacity of national laboratories to confirm cases of the disease, but advised that “efforts are still needed to develop simple diagnostic tools usable in the field as well as disabilit... more

Compendium of WHO guidelines and associated standards: ensuring optimum delivery of the cascade of care for patients with tuberculosis recommended

Implementation manual to prevent and control the spread of carbapenem-resistant organisms at the national and health care facility level recommended

Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids recommended

Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hyperlipidaemia Care recommended

Compendium of WHO guidelines and associated standards: ensuring optimum delivery of the cascade of care for patients with tuberculosis
recommended

Implementation manual to prevent and control the spread of carbapenem-resistant organisms at the national and health care facility level
recommended

Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids
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Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hyperlipidaemia Care
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