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Substance abuse treatmentand care for women: Case studies and lessons learned

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2004) C1

The present booklet is about gender-responsive substance abuse treatment services for women. It is part of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) project to develop tools to support the development and improvement of substance abuse treatment services, based on evidence from the litera ... more

MEDBOX Annual Report 2021

Mauder, S.; and P. Reijer MEDBOX Team (2022) CC

Multisectoral prioritization of zoonotic diseases in Uganda, 2017: A One Health perspective

Sekamatte, M.; V. Krishnasamy, L.Bulage et al. PLOS journals (2018) CC

PlosOne https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196799; Zoonotic diseases continue to be a public health burden globally. Uganda is especially vulnerable due to its location, biodiversity, and population. Given these concerns, the Ugandan government in collaboration with the Global Health Security Age ... more

Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa

Verner D.; Roos N.; Halloran A. World Bank Group (2021) CC

This report shows that frontier agriculture is a viable complement to conventional agriculture, particularly in Africa and countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV).

Health in the Americas 2022: Overview of the Region of the Americas in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

The objective of Health in the Americas: Overview of the Region of the Americas in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic is to respond to the need to address important public health issues in an increasingly timely manner, while serving as a platform with a close focus on specific issues of regional ... more

Eau, hygiène et assainissement, prévention et contrôle des infections dans les structures de traitement du choléra

UN Children's Fund UNICEF Groupe spécial mondial de lutte contre le Choléra (2019) C_UNICEF

Note technique. Les centres de traitement de choléra fournissent des soins hospitaliers aux patients atteints de choléra pendant les épidémies. Une prise en charge de qualité et l’isolement des patients atteints du choléra sont essentiels pour prévenir les décès et aider à lutter con ... more

Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response through integrated modelling

OECD; World Health Organization WHO; World Bank (2024) CC

The far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the critical need for evidence-informed, transparent and inclusive decision-making. Policy-makers have grappled with complex choices amidst uncertainty. They have constantly reassessed response measures while navigating their economic impl ... more

Generic protocol for a population-based, age- and gender- stratified sero-survey study for SARS-CoV-2

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) C1

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases detected and reported in each country is influenced by many factors including limited access and/or utilization of healthcare and COVID-19 testing, limited surveillance, lack of knowledge amongst the population about when to seek testing, an asymptomatic pres ... more

Africa CDC Event-based Surveillance Framework: interim version 2018

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC (2018) CC

Event-based surveillance (EBS) is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment and interpretation of mainly unstructured ad hoc information regarding health events or risks, which may represent an acute risk to health. Both indicator-based and event-based surveillance components serve ... more

Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours among ... more

Myanmar Policy for Early Childhood Care and Development

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2014) C1

Vision Statement
From birth to 8 years of age, all children of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar will receive holistic, high-quality and developmentally-appropriate care from their parents, caregivers and service providers to ensure they will be happy, healthy, well nourished, socially adept ... more

Opioid substitution therapy in Nepal

GIZ BMZ (2016) C1

A review of the available therapeutic agents that target the different steps of the ebola virus life cycle

Kang Yiu Lai, Wing Yiu George Ng and Fan Fanny Cheng (2014)

Policy and Guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control in Health Care Facilities

Ministry of Health, Ghana (2009) C1

Managing Eclampsia

WHO, International Cooperation of Midwifes WHO (2008)

Education material for teachers of midwifery Midwifery education modules - second edition

Counseling the traumatic Fistula client. Supplemement

EngenderHealth (2012) CC

A Supplement to the obstetrical fistula counseling curriculum

Lessons from Civil-Military Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

Harvard Humanitarian Intiative (2014)

n Autumn 2013, HHI Executive Director, Vincenzo Bollettino, traveled to the Philippines to participate in an assessment of civil-military engagement in the humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan. The report was sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistanc ... more

Responding to Flood Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations

Cosgrave, J. (2014)

This paper presents lessons learned from previous flood responses in developing countries, based on a structured review of the literature. It is intended for people working in relief and recovery operations who have to decide if, when and how to intervene after a flood.

WHO guideline on the use of safety-engineered syringes for intramuscular, intradermal and subcutaneous injections in health-care settings
recommended

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Building resilience in response to the Syria Crisis - A UNDP project compendium for partners

UN Development Programme (2015)