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Public statement on actuality about HIV epidemics among MSM and trans in Tajikistan

S. Orbelyan; M. Kasianczuk Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (2018) C2

A checklist for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This checklist is an operational tool to help national authorities develop or revise national respiratory pathogen (inclusive of influenza and coronaviruses) pandemic preparedness plans.

2022 Humanitarian Action Overview

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2021) C1

Five keys to growing safer fruits and vegetables: promoting health by decreasing microbial contamination

World Health Organization WHO (2012) C_WHO

The importance of fruits and vegetables in nutritious and healthy diets is well recognized, and in recent years consumers have been encouraged to eat more of these products. For many countries, particularly developing countries, these products have become a valuable commodity. At the same time, food ... more

National Guidelines for Vitamin A programm in Bangladesh

Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN) et al Micronutrient Initiative (2008) C1

Vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti: effects of temperature and implications for global dengue epidemic potential

Jing Liu-Helmersson , H. Stenlund, A. Wilder-Smith, et al. PLOS One (2014) CC

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that occurs mainly in the tropics and subtropics but has a high potential to spread to new areas. Dengue infections are climate sensitive, so it is important to better understand how changing climate factors affect the potential for geographic spread and futu ... more

Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the revised Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative 2018 Implementation guidance

World Health Organization, UNICEF (2018) C_WHO

This updated implementation guidance is intended for all those who set policy for, or offer care to, pregnant women, families and infants: governments; national managers of maternal and child health programmes in general, and of breastfeeding- and BFHI-related programmes in particular; and health-f ... more

How are vaccines developed?

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This article is part two in a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Part one focused on how vaccines work to protect our bodies from disease-carrying germs. This article focuses on the ingredients in a vaccine and the three clinical trial phases. Part three outlines the nex ... more

Understanding Peace Require-ments in Yemen: Needs and Roles for Civil Society, Women, Youth, the Media and the Private Sector

Mareike Transfeld & Marie-Christine Heinze GIZ (2019) CC

This report serves as a background paper to five short studies Yemeni-international researcher tandems will jointly develop in the course of 2019. It places a particular focus on ‘peace requirements’, a term that seeks to draw attention to the manifold challenges to establishing stab ... more

Pharmaceutical Sector Profile: Uganda

UN Industrial Development Organization (2010) C1

Global UNIDO Project: Strengthening the local production of essential generic drugs in the least developed and developing countries

Disability-inclusive social protection research in Nepal

Banks, Lena M., Walsham, Matthew and others International Centre for Evidence in Disability (2018) C1

A national overview with a case study from Tanahun district. The overall aims of this study are (1) to assess the extent to which social protection systems in Nepal address the needs of people with disabilities; and (2) to identify and document elements of good practice, as well as challenges, in th ... more

Malaria microscopy quality assurance manual – Ver. 2

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

This manual is designed primarily to assist managers of national malaria programmes and national reference laboratory responsible for quality assurance of malaria microscopy control. The information is also applicable to non-governmental organizations and funding agencies investing in quality manage ... more

Joint technical support mission (WHO-CDC-INSPQJohns Hopkins University) for response preparedness Côte d’Ivoire country visit 27–31 October 2014

(2014)

G7 Shared Understanding on Enhanced Finance-Health Coordination and PPR Financing

G7 (2023) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented public health, economic, and social impacts on the international community, and prompted an unprecedented range and size of policy actions globally. Collective efforts, at national, regional, and global levels, were called for to contain and mitigate such ... more

Antibiotic resistance – undoing progress in maternal and child health

ReAct (2018) C2

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected to rise dramatically if radical actions are not ta ... more

Malawi Emergency Appeal (May - October 2020)

OCHA; UN RC Malawi; UNCT Malawi (2020) C2

Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, and Malawi declared its first case on 2 April. As of 30 April, there were 36 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths. A State of Disaster was declared by President Arthur Peter Mutharika on 20 March and a 21 ... more

The social and cultural aspects of mental health in African societies

Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo Commonwealth Health Partnerships (2013) C2

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as ‘a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community’. Mental illn ... more

Xpert MTB/RIF for people living with HIV

World Health Organization (2014) C_WHO