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Review of Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition Implementation in Burkina Faso

Deconinck H., S. Diene, P. Bahwere Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2) (2010) C2

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (DCHA/OFDA) requested Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2) ... more

Cambodia Health System Review: The current policies and strategies of the health system’s governance, financing, and service delivery

Steve Peat SFU MPH Capstone Project (2013) CC

Desk Review & Recommendations for the Improvement of Early Warning Formulation and Dissemination/Communication in Myanmar

Myanmar DRR Working Group (2016) C1

No publication year indicated
In the context of the floods in August 2015 in Myanmar, the Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRR WG) was requested to provide clear recommendations to the DMH (Department of Hydrology and Meteorology)to strengthen preparedness activities, in particular for t ... more

Report on the Review of the Kenya National Guidelines for Safe Management of Health Care Waste

UNDP (2018) CC

Injection Safety and Safe Disposal of Medical Waste National Communication Strategy and Health Care Waste Management Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The overall objective of the consultancy was to review and align the three national technica ... more

Undernutrition in Myanmar. Part 1: A Critical Review of Literature

Cashin, Jennifer Leveraging Essential Nutrition Actions to Reduce Malnutrition (LEARN) (2016) C1

Despite improvements in recent years, the prevalence of undernutrition among women and children in Myanmar remains unacceptably high. One in three children are stunted and about 8% are acutely malnourished. Micronutrient deficiencies are common among infants, young children and pregnant women. In fa ... more

Transforming the health system in Uzbekistan: two-year implementation review

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Uzbekistan has started a process of health system reform that includes fundamental changes in service delivery and health financing arrangements, as well as digitalization of the health care sector. The reform was initiated in 2018 by the adoption of high-level legislation, which was put into practi ... more

How much bilateral and multilateral climate adaptation finance is targeting the health sector? A scoping review of official development assistance data between 2009– 2019

Alcayna T., O’Donnell D., Chandaria S. PLOS Global Public Health (2023) CC

Climate change is adversely affecting human health. Rapid and wide-scale adaptation is urgently needed given the negative impact climate change has across the socio-environmental determinants of health. The mobilisation of climate finance is critical to accelerate adaptation towards a climate resili ... more

Effectiveness of community health worker training programmes for cardiovascular disease management in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Abdel-All, M; Putica, B.; Praveen, D. et al. BMJ Open (2017) CC

Introduction Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being tasked to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors in underserved populations in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, little is known about the required training necessary for them to ... more

Human Resource Capacity Development in Public Health Supply Chain Management: Assessment Guide and Tool

USAID; Deliver Project (2013)

this toolkit presents a structured, rating-based methodology designed to provide a rapid, comprehensive assessment of the capacity of the human resource support system for a country’s supply chain. Data are gathered from a document review, focus g ... more

Epilepsy

World Health Organization (2004) C_WHO

Brief review of selected topics The following pages provide a focus on selected areas in relation to neurology. The specialists who contributed the reviews are listed in the Project Team and Partn ... more

Nepal Improving antibiotic use for UTIs in Nepal – Examples from the field

ReAct (2018) C2

This small scale project aimed to optimize antibiotic prescriptions for Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) at Okhaldhunga Community Hospital in Nepal. A review of 18 months data from urine cultures take ... more

My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC; World Health Organization (WHO); UNICEF; et al. (2020) C_WHO

This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). The project was supported by ... more

Start Fund: Learning from disease outbreaks

Start Fund (2018) C1

This learning report attempts to understand the drivers for, and barriers to, effective implementation as well as review the experiences of Start Fund members in responding to these outbreaks to support evidence-based decision-making within the Star ... more

The use of rectal artesunate as a pre-referral treatment for severe P. falciparum malaria

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Information note. In 2021, preliminary results of observational studies from the Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) project did not confirm the mortality impact observed in the controlled trial in 2009. Consequently, in Janu ... more

Covid-19 pandemic impact on maternal and child health services access in Nampula, Mozambique: a mixed methods research

das Neves Martins Pires P.H. , Macaringue C. , Abdirazak A. et al. BMC Health Services (2021) CC

The Covid-19 pandemic has so far infected more than 30 million people in the world, having major impact on global health with collateral damage. In Mozambique, a public state of emergency was declared at the end of March 2020. This has limited people's movements and reduced public services, leading ... to a decrease in the number of people accessing health care facilities. An implementation research project, The Alert Community for a Prepared Hospital, has been promoting access to maternal and child health care, in Natikiri, Nampula, for the last four years. Nampula has the second highest incidence of Covid-19. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of Covid-19 pandemic Government restrictions on access to maternal and child healthcare services. We compared health centres in Nampula city with healthcare centres in our research catchment area. We wanted to see if our previous research interventions have led to a more resilient response from the community. METHODS: Mixed-methods research, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective, using a review of patient visit documentation. We compared maternal and child health care unit statistical indicators from March-May 2019 to the same time-period in 2020. We tested for significant changes in access to maternal and child health services, using KrushKall Wallis, One-way Anova and mean and standard deviation tests. We compared interviews with health professionals, traditional birth attendants and patients in the two areas. We gathered data from a comparable city health centre and the main city referral hospital. The Marrere health centre and Marrere General Hospital were the two Alert Community for a Prepared Hospital intervention sites. RESULTS: Comparing 2019 quantitative maternal health services access indicators with those from 2020, showed decreases in most important indicators: family planning visits and elective C-sections dropped 28%; first antenatal visit occurring in the first trimester dropped 26%; hospital deliveries dropped a statistically significant 4% (p = 0.046), while home deliveries rose 74%; children vaccinated down 20%. CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrated the negative collateral effects of Covid-19 pandemic Government restrictions, on access to maternal and child healthcare services, and highlighted the need to improve the health information system in Mozambique. more

African regional progress and status of the programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: 2000–2020

Deribe K., Bakajikaa D. K., Zourea H. MG. et al The royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene (2021) C2

To eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) by 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a campaign against the disease. Since the launch in 2000, significant progress has been made to achieve this ambitious goal. In this article we review t ... more

Inclusive Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance on Good Practice in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta, Myanmar

ActionAid Myanmar (2015) C1

This publication presents guidance on good practice from the Ayeyarwaddy Delta in Myanmar, outlining the key factors which contributed to the successful implementation and outcome of a range of community-based Disaster Risk Reduction initiatives implemented by the Myanmar Consortium for Community Re ... more

CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Trainers’ Manual: Stage 1 / Handout 1

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2012)

Inclusive Project Cycle Management

CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Trainers’ Manual: Stage 1 / Handout 8

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2012)

Inclusive Project Cycle Management

CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Trainers’ Manual: Stage 2 / Handout 6

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2012)

Inclusive Project Cycle Management