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WHO Level II household survey to measure access to and use of medicines in Ghana

Daniel Kojo Arhinful Ministry of Health, Ghana (2011) C1

This field study to measure access to and use of medicines was undertaken in GHANA in May-June 2008. The study assessed information on the socio-economic level of households, and access to and use of medicines for acute and chronic conditions as well as opinions and perceptio... more

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Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool for Program Planners (NPDA)

CORE Group Nutrition Working Group, Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), and Save the Children (2015)

Reference Guide Version 2. Revised. The Nutrition Program Design Assistant is a tool to help organizations design the nutrition component of their community-based maternal and child health, food security, or other development program. The tool focuses on prevention and also provides guidance on recu... more

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Delivering Universal Health Coverage 2030 Health: A political choice

Ilona Kickbusch WHO (2019) CC

At least half of the world’s population does not have full coverage of essential health services. Health expenses push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty each and every year, forcing them into terrible choices that no one should ever have to make: Buy medicine or food? Education or ... more

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Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection - AIDSinfo

AIDSinfo (2019) C2

Downloaded from https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines on 10/19/2019 Developed by the HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Therapy and Medical Management of Children Living with HIV—A Working Group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC)

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Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused
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World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

WHO clinical guidelines. For the first time, WHO has published guidelines to help (primarily) front-line healthcare providers give high-quality, compassionate, and respectful care to children and adolescents (up to age 18) who have or may have experienced sexual abuse, including sexual assault or r... more

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EFFECTIVENESS OF SHORTENED COURSE (≤ 3 DAYS) OF ANTIBIOTICS FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA IN CHILDREN

Gulani, A. & Sachdev, H.P.S World Health Organisation (WHO) (2009) C_WHO

A systematic review of randomized controlled efficacy trials | REPORT - DEPARTMENT OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

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Demographic and Health Survey - Kyrgyz Republic

USAID; UNFPA; STAT.KG (2013) C2

National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic Ministry of Health Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic MEASURE DHS ICF International Calverton, Maryland, U.S.A.

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Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk

Malaria Consortium (2014)

Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is increasingly being used across sub-Saharan Africa to supplement the gaps in basic healthcare prov... more

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The Importance of Pharmacovigilance

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The Pharmacovigilance team in WHO aims to assure the safety of medicines and vaccines by ensuring reliable and timely exchange of information on safety issues, promoting pharmacovigilance activities throughout the Organization and encouraging participation in the WHO Programme for International Drug... more

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Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

OECD; The World Bank (2020) C1

Thefirst report on Latin America and the Carribean presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. . Analysis is based on the latest comparable data across almost 100 indicators including equity, health status, determinants of health, health car... more

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A Case for Increasing Public Investments in Health Raising Public Commitments to Kenya’s Health Sector

David N. and Wanjala P. SPARC (2020) C1

In Kenya, 12.7 percent of sick Kenyans do not seek health care when they are ill with high cost of services being one of the major barriers that accounted for upto 21 percent of those who did not seek care in 2013. Further, 2.6 million Kenyans (6.2 percent) of households were at risk of impoverishme... more

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National Eye Health Strategic Plan 2020 - 2025

Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Health (2020) CC

This Eye health strategic plan presents the Ministry of Health’s five year proposed strategies for eye care in Kenya. It sets the strategic direction for the National Eye Health Care System and presents information on the priorities, objectives and indicators that the Ministry has adopted espe... more

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Gender and One Health context analysis for HEAL

Eba, B.; Wieland B., Flintan F., et al. (2020) CC

The One Health approach can help achieve progress and promotes synergies on national and global priorities by generating synergies at the human-animal-environmental interface. While evidence is still scare, it is likely that the approach is highly cost-effective and improves effectiveness of core pu... more

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Public health advice for gatherings during the current monkeypox outbreak

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The purpose of this document is to provide public health advice to host governments, public health authorities, national or international organizers, and professional staff involved in the planning and delivery of gatherings, including people organizing smaller gatherings or attending gatherings of ... more

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Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women.

UNICEF (2023) C_UNICEF

There has been important progress for the rights of adolescent girls and women in recent decades, yet millions still struggle to access the nutritious diets, essential nutrition services and nutrition and care practices they need to prevent malnutrition. Undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies ... more

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Financing Global Health 2017: Funding Universal Health Coverage and the Unfinished HIV/AIDS Agenda

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2018) C2

In 2017, $37.4 billion of development assistance was provided to low- and middleincome countries to maintain or improve health. This amount is down slightly compared to 2016, and since 2010, development assistance for health (DAH) has grown at an annualized rate of 1.0%. While global development ass... more

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Strengthening countries’ capacities to adopt and adapt evidence-based guidelines: a handbook for guideline contextualization

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Trustworthy, evidence-based health guidelines form the basis of national policies affecting both patients and health-care workers. Emphasizing the link between robust evidence and people’s trust in their health systems, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe said at the launch ev... more

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Diabetes and Ramadan: Practical guidelines 2021

Hassanein M., Afandi B. et al. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (2016) CC2

The document "Diabetes and Ramadan: Practical Guidelines 2021," published by Elsevier, provides updated guidance for managing diabetes during Ramadan fasting. Developed by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the Diabetes and Ramadan (DAR) International Alliance, the guidelines address ke... more

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WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2017 -2022 Malawi

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC2

The Country Cooperation Strategy is the World Health Organization (WHO)’s reference for country work guiding planning and resource allocation through alignment with national health priorities and harmonization with other development partners. It clarifies roles and functions of WHO in supporting t... more

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Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

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