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Ghana COVID-19 emergency response on vaccines- Additonal finance. Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Ministry of Health Ghana (2021) CC

The overall goal of this strategy is to ensure accurate understanding of the benefits of covid-19 vaccination and alleviate apprehension about the vaccine, to ensure its acceptance and encourage uptake across various audiences. Objectives x Create demand, promote acceptability and accessibility o... more

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UNHCR Global Strategy for Public Health 2021-2025

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2021) C1

UNHCR’s Public Health Strategy 2021-2025 is based on the lessons learnt, and builds on the achievements, of the Global Strategy for Public Health 2014-2018. Progress was made on policies favouring inclusion and integration into national systems3 with 92% of 48 operations surveyed reporting refuge... more

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Unequal, unprepared, under threat -World AIDS Day Report, 1 Dec 2021

UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

Why bold action against inequalities is needed to en AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics

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COVID-19: Strategic preparedness and response plan for WHO African Region 1 February 2021-31 January 2022 (Update of 16 April 2021)

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The 2021 COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for AFR serves as a regional guide for a holistic public health response to COVID‑19 at regional, national and sub-national levels. The 2021 SPRP: 1. Builds upon the lessons learnt from the implementation of the 2020 SPRP and outl... more

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Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2020

OECD (2020) C1

Measuring progress towards universal health coverage. This sixth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and quality of care across 27 Asia-... more

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Syria: Complex Emergency Emergency Plan of Action Operation Update

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2020) C1

This operation update provides a summary of key results achieved against the IFRC Syria Complex Emergency Plan of Action covering 13-month period, from 1 June 2019 to 30 June 2020.

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Cholera: Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

LaRocque, R.; S.B. Calderwood and A.Bloom UpToDate (2020) C1

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Under Siege - Impact of COVID-19 on Girls in Africa

ACPF, Plan International (2020) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and added yet another layer of vulnerability to an already dire web of vulnerabilities of girls in the African continent, which constitute about 49% of the total child population. Critically, gender equality and girls’ multidimensional vulnerability have been ... more

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Health and the Economy: A Convergence Needed to Address COVID-19 and Retake the Path of Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

he pandemic has produced an unprecedented economic and social crisis, and it could generate a food, humanitarian, and political crisis if urgent measures are not taken. The policy options for addressing the pandemic entail consolidating national plans and achieving intersectoral consensus. The respo... more

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Averting ethnocide: : Indigenous peoples and territorial rights in crisis in the face of COVID-19 in Latin America

Oxfam (2020) CC

There are indigenous communities at high risk in every country of the region. At stake are the lives of 45 million people who belong to more than 800 indigenous peoples. Of these, some 100 are spread across several countries, around 200 maintain voluntary isolation or are in initial contact, and nea... more

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Immunization coverage: Are we losing ground?

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

Immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions to date, saving an estimated 2 to 3 million lives each year. As a direct result of immunization, the world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, and deaths from measles – a major child killer – have declined by 73 per... more

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We’ve got the power — Women, adolescent girls and the HIV response

UNAIDS (2020) CC

This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It is dedicated to the women leaders and allied community mobilizers who have devoted their lives to advancing the human rights and dignity of all people affected by the HIV epidemic, and to opposing soci... more

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UNICEF Yemen Country Office Humanitarian Situation Report (Reporting Period: 1 - 31 May 2020)

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C1

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Interim Guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2020) C1

This Interim Guidance outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The recommendations outlined here need to be adjusted to the scale of transmission, co... more

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A Crisis Within a Crisis: Venezuela and COVID-19

Van PraagO.; and C.J. Arnson (2020) CC

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Enhancing access to services for migrants in the context of COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, and response and beyond

Working Group on Access to Services of the UN Network on Migration, et al. (2020) CC

The United Nations Network on Migration is committed to supporting all partners in pursuit of the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, recognizing that this cooperative framework provides an invaluable tool for ensuring inclusive, collective responses to COVI... more

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Six concrete measures to support women and girls in all their diversity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The report underscores that sexual and reproductive health and rights are often the first to be sacrificed during epidemics and that the gains of the past decade must be protected. The report also makes it clear that scarce resources must be focused on the most marginalized women and girls, includin... more

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South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 - COVID-19 Addendum (June 2020)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) CC

This document summarizes preparedness and response activities to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in South Sudan through the end of 2020. The addendum includes the activities and financial requirements of the updated National COVID-19 Response Plan. Originally issued in March prio... more

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COVID-19 Impacts on African Children - How to Protect-a-generation at Risk

Save the Children (2020) C1

This policy paper underscores that, although children do not represent a high-risk group for direct COVID-19 fatality, the pandemic posts far-reaching secondary impacts that heighten risks to African children’s rights and wellbeing.

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Lost at home - The risks and challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them

UNICEF (2020) CC

Today, more children than ever before are displaced within their own countries. Their harrowing stories of displacement are unfolding every day, and with increasing frequency. At the end of 2019, approximately 45.7 million people were internally displaced by conflict and violence (Fig. 1.1). Nearly ... more