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Five-Year Strategic Plan for Young People's Health (2016-2020)

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports (2017) C1

The National Strategic Plan is based on the following guiding principles:
1) Life-course approach: adolescence is a key decade in the course of life that inﬂuences the health outcomes later in life.
2) Comprehensive approach: It recognizes the cross cutting health and development needs o... more

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Synchronizing Gender Strategies: A Cooperative Model for Improving Reproductive Health and Transforming Gender Relations

Margaret E. Greene and Andrew Levack IGWG (2010)

This publication makes the case for working with men and women, boys and girls, together in an intentional and mutually reinforcing way that challenges gender norms in the pursuit of improved health and gender equality. In addition to providing a definition for the new concept of gender synchronizat... more

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Menstrual Hygiene Management
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Save the Children (2018) C2

Operational Guidelines. Guidelines for the development of educational programmes for MHM, including tips on the topics to address and methods to assess girls’ practices in a respectful way with practical tools

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The H6 Partnership vision

Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS (UNAIDS) (2018) C1

A catalyst for transformation in the United Nations to deliver health results for women, children and adolescents in support of the Sustainable Development Goals

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A Toolkit for integrating menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into humanitarian response

r2hc Reserach for Health in Humanitarian Crisis; Elrha; et al. (2017) C1

In many humanitarian emergencies, there is a serious lack of access to even the most basic materials needed for managing the blood in addition to a lack of appropriate sanitation facilities (including water), which are critical for addressing menstrual hygiene. Privacy in emergencies is often scarc... more

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Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

Toma, Iulia; Chowdhury, Mita; Laiju, Mushfika; Gora, Nina; Padamada, Nicola Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children (2018) C1

This gender analysis was conducted to understand the different risks and vulnerabilities but also opportunities and skills for Rohingya and host community women, men, boys and girls. Data collection was conducted over three weeks from 8 April to 29 April 2018. The work aimed to identify the differen... more

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No change for Corona

Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Welthungerhilfe (2020) C1

How kids can help beat the virus - This comic strip provides young people between the ages of 10 and 14 with information about the coronavirus and other preventative hygiene measures. Although children and adolescents are not likely to become seriously ill with COVID-19, they are nevertheless massi... more

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COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC; World Health Organization (WHO); UNICEF; et al. (2020) C1

Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies.1 This is due to factors su... more

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Guidelines for: Adaptation of dignity kits & revision of distribution standards for risk mitigation during COVID-19 pandemic

Reliefweb; OCHA Services; UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office (2020) C2

Many countries are taking strict measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with lockdowns, curfews, and closure of public spaces and services. As a result of stress and uncertainty caused by these strict measures, women and girls are at even greater risk of violence at a time when their access to s... more

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CARE Rapid Gender Analysis of COVID-19 in Myanmar

CARE (2020) CC

7 June 2020 Version 1 Women in Myanmar have traditionally been underrepresented in public decision-making processes, a trend which is continuing in structures established to respond to COVID-19. This means that even as women are disproportionately affected by the crisis, they have less say in how t... more

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National Implementation Guidelines for HIV and STI Programming Among Young Key Populations

NASCOP (National AIDS & STI Control Programme), Kenya (2018) CC

These guidelines were developed as part of Kenya's fast-track plan to end AIDS among adolescents and young people. Based on research into adolescent and young key populations in Kenya and elsewhere, they outline a package of HIV prevention services, and emphasize the need to combine biobehavioural i... more

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Family Assets Understanding and Addressing Child Marriage in Turkana

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2016) C_UNICEF

Child marriage is a widespread practice across Turkana, a nomadic pastoralist region in Kenya. This report explores the issue through the voices of those girls affected by it.

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Invisible women: A gender analysis of climate-induced migration in South Asia

Action Aid; CANSA; ICMPD; et al. (2021) CC

New research exposes how women and children are disproportionally affected by climate migration, which puts them at greater risk of gender-based violence, child labour and exploitation. Governments must ensure the safety and protection of women and girls in climate emergencies, including the safe... more

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On the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines: Discussion paper with policy recommendations and compendium of resources

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2021) CC

The primary audience of this report with the compendium of resources are youth engagement practitioners in the Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies as well as technical experts and policy makers across the humanitarian landscape that thrive for meaningful interventions with and for children, ad... more

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Female genital mutilation in Egypt

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

The prevalence of FGM is high across many population groups in Egypt, but the practice is somewhat more common in rural areas, in less wealthy households and among girls and women with less education

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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: What might the future hold?

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2014) C_UNICEF

By 2050, nearly 1 in 3 births worldwide will occur in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM/C is concentrated, and nearly 500 million more girls and women will be living in these countries than there are today. In Somalia alone, where FGM/C prevalence stands at 98 per cent, t... more

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Health should not be a privilege for the rich—the right to health belongs to everyone

UNAIDS (2020) CC

UNAIDS is calling on governments to ensure that the right to health is realized by all by prioritizing public investments in health. At least half of the world’s population cannot access essential health services. Every two minutes a woman dies while giving birth. Among the people being left behin... more

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Standard Operating Procedure for the Afghanistan Youth Health Line

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2024) CC

UNFPA supports the Youth Health Line (YHL), launched in 2012, as a nationwide, youth friendly health service to provide information and counseling for adolescents and youth on issues related to their health and reproductive health. The YHL is providing a vital service to young people around the coun... more

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Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for people with chronic hepatitis B infection (March 2024)

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Hepatitis B (HBV) infection is a major public health problem and cause of chronic liver disease. The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed recommendations on key priority topics. These include expanded and simplified treatment criteria for adults but now also for adolescents; expa... more

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The Burden of Pediatric Asthma

Ferrante, G.; La Grutta, S. Frontiers in Pediatrics (2018) CC

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, imposing a consistent burden on health system. In recent years, prevalence of asthma symptoms became globally increased in children and adolescents, particularly in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Host (genetics, atopy) and environmental fa... more

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