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Enfermedades no transmisibles - Las enfermedades crónicas, no transmisibles (ENT) son la principal causa de muerte y discapacidad en el mundo

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2024) C_WHO

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the number one cause of death and disability in the world. The term NCDs refers to a group of conditions that are not mainly caused by an acute infection, result in long-term health consequences and often create a need for long-term treatment and care. ... more

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POLICY BRIEF - Empowering Youth with Quality Jobs to Stimulate the Demographic Dividend in Rwanda

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and UNFPA (2017) C2

The Demographic Dividend study on Rwanda assessed the socio-economic and human development potential of our country in the short, medium and long-term period using a comprehensive approach. It generated relevant policy and programme information to guide a well-informed polciy required to propel Rwan... more

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) or Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the 1st cause of death and disability worldwide

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) or Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the 1st cause of death and disability worldwide. The term NCDs refers to a group of conditions that are not mainly caused by an acute infection, result in long-term health consequences and often create a need for long-... more

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Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction [MAP DRR]

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, National Disaster Management Committee (2017) C1

Fostering resilient development through integrated action plan
The Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017 is a comprehensive and unified action plan for disaster risk reduction with prioritized interventions across Myanmar till 2020. With a long term vision and considering deep-root... more

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Update of the report: "Out of the dark: Meeting the needs of children with Tuberculosis"

Médecins sans Frontières (2012) C1

NOVEMBER 2012 This document serves as an update to “Out of the Dark”, a report published by MSF in October 2011, highlighting the need to prioritise the long-neglected area of paediatric tuberculosis (TB). This update will outline the key improvements and setbacks—the ‘highlights’ and ‘... more

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Policy Brief: Faith Actors in the COVID-19 Response

World Vision (2020) C2

COVID-19 is stretching formal and informal aspects of community life. The pandemic is overwhelming health systems. Country economies are reaching a breaking point, with particularly significant impact for the livelihoods of vulnerable families and those dependent on daily wages. COVID-19 is also aff... more

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Malawi contains cholera outbreak

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Malawi's Ministry of Health officially declared on August 16, 2023, that the cholera outbreak is no longer a national health emergency. Since the outbreak began in February 2022, the country recorded 58,982 cholera cases and 1,768 deaths. Through coordinated efforts by the government, development pa... more

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Práticas de prevenção e controle de infecções para o tratamento de pacientes em estabelecimentos não tradicionais, com foco no novo coronavírus (COVID-19)

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2020) C_WHO

Objetivos: • Fornecer recomendações para as práticas de prevenção e controle de infecções (PCI) a serem usadas durante atendimento em estabelecimentos não tradicionais, no contexto da doença do novo coronavírus (COVID-19). Estas recomendações são provisórias e estão sujeitas à revi... more

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Do Disability Inequalities Grow with Development? Evidence from 40 Countries

Lewis, E.; Mitra, S.; Yap, J. Sustainability (2022) CC

With development, people around the world have become wealthier and live longer. At the same time, development can lead to growing inequalities within and between nations. This paper analyses inequalities related to disability and how they vary across countries by development level. Using internatio... more

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Zero by 30: the global strategic plan to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030: United Against Rabies Collaboration: first annual progress report

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically ... more

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Résumé des Recommandations de l’OMS pour l’Hygiène des Mains au cours des Soins

World Health Organization WHO (2010) C_WHO

Les infections associées aux soins (IAS) touchent des centaines de millions de patients dans le monde chaque année. Ces infections sont à l’origine de pathologies graves, de prolongements de la durée du séjour en établissement de soins, d’invalidités à long terme, de coûts personnels im... more

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Stratégie mondiale du secteur de la santé contre les infections sexuellement transmissibles 2016-2021: Vers l'élimination des IST

Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) (2016) C_WHO

Une fois adoptée et mise en œuvre, la stratégie contribuera à réduire sensiblement les nouvelles infections sexuellement transmissibles et les décès connexes (ainsi que les mortinatalités et le cancer du col de l’utérus), tout en améliorant la santé individuelle, la santé sexuelle des ... more

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Humanitarian Accountability Report

James Darcy, Jessica Alexander, Maria Kiani et al. Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) (2013)

The report offers an overview of the progress the humanitarian sector has made and the obstacles it has faced over the past 10 years. Accountability is no longer just a fashionable term, there is now a shared understanding of what it takes to be accountable. From changes at policy level, to concrete... more

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Managing stress and anger — COVID-19

Hesperian (2020) CC

Being away from our regular routines and the people we love can be hard. Lost income, crowded living spaces, violence, fear, uncertainty, and living with depression or other mental health problems can make it even harder. We will be living with these difficulties for a long time as we adjust to COVI... more

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Hearts - D: Diagnosis and Management of Type 2 Diabetes 2020

World Health Organization WHO; International Diabetes Federation (2020) C_WHO

Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by the presence of hyperglycaemia in the absence of treatment. The heterogeneous aetiopathology includes defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. The long-term specific complications of diabe... more

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Our World in Data: Natural Catastrophes

University of Oxford (2018) CC

Our World in Data is an online publication that shows how living conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global overview and to show changes over the very long run, so that we can see where we are coming from and where we are today. We cover a wide range of topics across many academic discipli... more

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Role of APOC in the new strategic direction for Onchocerciasis elimination, co-implementation with Lymphatic filariasis and other health interventions

World Health Organization WHO; African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control APOC (2012) C_WHO

The Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP) undertook regional and large scale frght against onchocerciasis in West Africa in 1974 using a vector control strategy. By 2002 OCP had succeeded in eliminating the disease as a public health, socio-economic and development problem in 10 out ... more

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Gavi Alliance MS Roadmap for Oral Cholera Vaccines 4: The Market Shaping Goal Ensure healthy markets for vaccines and related products

GAVI Alliance (2023) C1

Geneva, 22 May 2023 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today published a roadmap* outlining critical actions needed to ensure supply of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is able to meet growing demand from countries. Released against a backdrop of a recent wave of cholera outbreaks around the world, the roadma... more

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Extreme weather and disaster preparedness: 2018 cyclone preparedness lessons learnt

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society , et al. UNHR (2019) C1

Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response. One of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladesh each year experiences a high degree of seasonal variety, including southwest monsoon and two cyclone seasons. With its long coastline on the Bay of Bengal and with a landscape ... more

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Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO

Every country has been affected by COVID-19, with nearly a quarter of a billion cases and almost 5 million deaths reported globally as of end of September 2021. Despite the stunning speed with which highly effective and safe vaccines have been developed, new waves of disease are still pushin... more