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Preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV

UNAIDS; WHO; hrp (2020) C_WHO

This programmatic brief explores how to expand HIV and STI prevention and contraceptive method options in contraceptive services and, thus, to reduce HIV and STI incidence among adolescent girls and women. It focuses on settings with extremely high HIV prevalence and incidence. This brief complement ... more

Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care

WHO (2009)

Handbook; EmOC indicators

The HIV response in emergencies

Ruth Ayarza, Sophie Baver; Marie Mercy Zevallos, et al. International HIVAIDS Alliance; POZ (2014)

CBM Policy - Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2010)

CBR Advisory Working Group | Co-ordinator: Karen Heinicke-Motsch

They die of bombs, we die of need: impact of collapsing public health systems in Yemen

International Rescue Committee (2018) C1

National Response Efforts to Address Sexual Violence and Exploitation Against Children in Lesotho: A Desktop Study

Weber, Stephanie Arlington, VA: USAID’s AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1 (2013) C2

Scant data exists on the prevalence of violence against children worldwide. However, available information, including the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children, shows that violence against children is a global problem. This desktop study aims to glean from published ... more

Using media and communication to respond to public health emergencies: lessons learned from Ebola

Wilkinson, S. BBC Media Action (2016) CC

The paper sets out the specific communication challenge posed by Ebola and why it was so difficult to get to grips with this in the early months of the outbreak. It thendocuments when the health communication response became more useful and explores what that tells us about effective media and commu ... more

Following the money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources

Center for Global Development Center for Global Development (2007) C1

This report started with a simple question—“How can we tell how much funding is devoted to global health programs?”—and ended (more than two years later) with an answer that is far from simple. As those who have tried know well, tracking health-related funding is challenging in any setting, ... more

HIV Due to Female Sex Work: Regional and Global Estimates

A. Prüss-Ustün; J. Wolf; T. Driscoll; et al. Plos One (2013) CC

PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org May 2013 | Volume 8 | Issue 5 | e63476

Good Practices for Selecting and Procuring Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

WHO (2011) C_WHO

Multiple Indicator Survey (MICS 200) India. Summary Report

Dept. of Women and Child Health Development, India; UNICEF India (2001)

Social and Economic Impact of COVID-19

E. Levy Yeyati; F. Filippini The Independent Panel (2021) CC

Background paper 13 The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response May 2021

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) (2015) CC

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster ... more

The Ukraine war and threats to food and energy security

Benton, T.; et al. Chatham House (2022) CC

Cascading risks from rising prices and supply disruptions, April 2022. Global resource markets are still reeling from the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the two countries are major suppliers of energy, food and fertilizers. Supply disruption and the sudden imposition, in response to the ... more

Fact sheet — Zero discrimination against women and girls

UNAIDS (2020) CC

On Zero Discrimination Day and as part of the global movement for equality for women and girls, UNAIDS is highlighting seven areas where discrimination against women and girls persists, raising awareness and calling for change.

Disaster Response and Preparedness in Southern Africa - A guide to international tools and services available to governments

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2015) CC

The Guide has been developed to enhance the knowledge capabilities of NDMAs and their local partners. This is accomplished by exposing them to the existing tools and services developed by the international community to facilitate effective disaster response to any scale of disaster (small, medium an ... more

Non-communicable diseases in Mozambique: risk factors, burden, response and outcomes to date

Carla Silva-Matos; David Beran (2012) C1

This revision covers the main non-communicable diseases in Mozambique as well as the National Strategic Plan's aim to create a positive environment to minimize or eliminate the exposure to risk factors and guarantee access to care.

Childhood tuberculosis in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Kadridin Pirov, Umriniso Sirojiddinova, Oktam Bobokhojaev, et al. (2016) CC

Public health Panoram, Vol.2 Issue 1 March 2016

Action global health advocacy partnership

M. Slutsker ACTION global health advocacy partnership; ACTION partner oranizations (2016) C2

From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working “The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that TB d ... more

Assessment of prison life of persons with disability in Ghana

Joslin Dogbe, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Anthony Edusei et al. (2016) CC

BioMed Central; BMC International Health and Human Rights (2016) 16:20; DOI 10.1186/s12914-016-0094-y