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The Core Elements of Human Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Resource-Limited Settings: National and Hospital Levels
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2018) C_CDC

Formularies are lists of antibiotics that are suggested for certain healthcare settings. In developing a recommended formulary, countries should consider the needs of patients and facilities where they receive care. For example, clinicians in rural or primary health centers may need wide access to f ... more

The Core Elements of Human Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Resource-Limited Settings

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2018) C_CDC

Antibiotic stewardship refers to coordinated efforts and activities that seek to measure and improve use of antibiotics. Implementation of ASPs has demonstrated positive public health and clinical impacts including reducing costs, lengths of hospital stays, and the burden of antibiotic resistance wh ... more

Centering communities in pandemic preparedness and response

The Independent Panel (2021) CC

Background paper 10 The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response May 2021

Lista de medicamentos esenciales para el manejo de pacientes que ingresan a unidades de cuidados intensivos con sospecha o diagnóstico confirmado de COVID 19. Tercera versión, 1 de febrero del 2022
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Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS OPS (2022) C_WHO

List of essential medicines for the management of patients admitted in intensive care units with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of COVID 19. Third version, 1 February 2022

Lessons from the gender-based violence initiative in Tanzania

Kelsey Simmons, Zuki Mihyo and Lyn Messner The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project (2016) CC

The distinctive role of the Catholic Church in development and humanitarian response: 7 ways the Church makes a difference

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development CAFOD (2021) CC

7 Febr. 2021 As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in countries – decimating people’s livelihoods, and leaving health systems struggling to provide healthcare and vaccines for the entire population - governments and donors should look to the Church as a partner. The essential Church networks, tr ... more

Perceived Susceptibility of Persons with Physical Disability to Factors Contributing to the Risk of Contracting HIV in Cameroon: A Qualitative Study

Elvis E. Tarkang, Prosper M. Lutala International Journal of HIVAIDS Prevention, Educa tion and Behavioural Science (2015) CC

WHO list of priority medical devices for cancer management

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

This publication is based on the list of clinical interventions selected from clinical guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, monitoring and end of life care. This publication addresses medical devices for six types of cancer: breast, cervical, colorectal, leukem ... more

Liberia: How reinforced community health structures and capitalizing on lessons learned from the Ebola virus epidemic of 2014–16 helped the country respond to the challenge of its second major disease

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Communicating with health workers aboutCOVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) CC

This training module is designed to equip HWs with knowledge and communication skills to build their confidence and support them in their ability to promote acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among other HWs.

Supervision County-Level Policy and Procedure Manual: National Decentralized Management Support Systems Implementation Strategy & Plan

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia; USAIDS BASICS Project (2009) C1

Evaluation of Oxfam’s South Sudan Humanitarian Response Using Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Indicator Tool

Featherstone, A. Oxfam (2012) CC

As part of a wider organisational undertaking to better capture and communicate the effectiveness of its work, Oxfam developed an evaluative method to assess the quality of targeted humanitarian responses. This method uses a global humanitarian indicator tool which is intended to enable Oxfam GB to ... more

Managing pertussis outbreaks during humanitarian emergencies

World Health Organization (2008)

Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia

Jane Phiri and John E Ataguba (2014) CC

International Journal for Equity in Health 2014, 13:24

Management of severe paediatric malaria in resource-limited settings

Maitland, K. (2015) CC2

BMC Medicine (2015) 13:42 DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0263-6

Self-Directed M&E Learning Workbook 2: Doing the “M” of M & E

Ministry of Health & Ministry of Local Government, Gabarone, Botswana (2011) C2

District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes

Technique automatisée d’amplification de l’acide nucléique en temps réel pour la détection rapide et simultanée de la tuberculose et de la résistance à la rifampicine : Système Xpert MTB/RIF

Organisation mondiale de la Santé (2011) C_WHO

Responding to a poliovirus event or outbreak - Part 2: Protocol for poliovirus type 2

Global Polio Eradication Initiative WHO (2017) C_WHO

The main objectives of the SOPs are to: (i) establish standards and timelines for response activities; and (ii) guide national governments and GPEI partners in key support functions. This new version of the SOPs presents overall response requirements for dealing with type 1, 2 and 3 poliovirus fo ... more

Interim Planning Guidance for Preparedness and Response to a Mass Casualty Event Resulting from Terrorist Use of Explosives

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; US Dept. of Health and Human Services (2010) C1

The purpose of this interim guidance is to provide information and insight to assist public policy and health system leaders in preparing for and responding to an MCE caused by terrorist use of explosives (TUE). This document provides practical information to promote comprehensive mass casualty ca ... more