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Special Issue: Newborn Health in Uganda

Kate Kerber, Stefan Peterson & Peter Waiswa Global Health Action (2015)

This special issue on Newborn Health in Global Health Action is being launched to share the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package of newborn care that involves families, community health workers and health facilities. The results of this community randomized trial, the Uganda Newbor ... more

Programming strategies for Postpartum Family Planning

World Health Organization; USAID; MCHIP (2013)

This publication is designed to be used by programme planners and managers as a resource when designing interventions to integrate postpartum family planning into national and subnational strategies. Postpartum family planning should not be considered a ‘vertical’ programme, but rather as an int ... more

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

Pollution and health: a progress update
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Fuller, R.; et al. (2022) CC

The Lancet Planetary Health Published:May 17, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00090-0 Every year pollution causes 9 million deaths—1 in every 6 deaths worldwide, according to a Lancet Commission on pollution and health. While the number of deaths caused by household air pollution a ... more

East Asia and Pacific Regional UNGEI: Achieving Gender Equality in Education for Children with Disabilities

United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGAI) (2013) C2

Newsletter No. 15 | Highlighting the gender dimensions of education for children with disabilities

Lancet Series Maternal Health

The Lancet (2016) CC

Each year, about 210 million women become pregnant and about 140 million newborn babies are delivered. The sheer scale of maternal health issues makes maternal well being and survival vital concerns. A decade after The Lancet published a Series on maternal survival, a new Series of six papers brings ... more

Impact on Essential Health Services

The Independent Panel (2021) CC

Background paper 8 The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response May 2021

Family Planning Job Aids for Low Resource Settings

Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crisis (2014)

A catalogue of family planning job aids for low resource settings, which includes a brief description and key messages as well as pros and cons for each job aid. Accessed June 2014.

Community-based rehabilitation: CBR guidelines - Social component

Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, WHO (2010) C_WHO

Available in: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Tajik, Vietnamese, Uzbek http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/

Bungoma County, Kenya. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2013/14. Final Report

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Population Studies and Research Institute and UNICEF (2016)

The Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, UN Development Programme (2015) C1

The Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Handbook) has been developed to provide guidance on how to use the Checklist and conduct related legislative reviews and reform processes. While the methodology for using the Checklist needs to be tailored to each country’s context and respectiv ... more

National Guidelines on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV Response in Nepal, 2012

Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population Department of Health Services, National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (2012) C1

Country Progress Report Nepal

Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population, National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (2015) C1

Nepal: Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2014

Ministry of Agricultural Development (2014) C1

Module on Child Functioning Concept Note

UNICEF Washington Group on Disability Statistics (2017)

Antibiotic Regimens in meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa

L. Cibrelus World Health Organization (2014) C_WHO

Report for the WHO Meningitis Guideline Revision (May 2014)

Epilepsy in Latin America

Kestel, D., et al. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2016) C_WHO

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019. Offering help to quit tobacco use

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

The seventh WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic analyses national efforts to implement the most effective measures from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) that are proven to reduce demand for tobacco. The report showed that while only 23 countries have implemented ce ... more

World Drug Report 2019 Booklet 3 Drug market trends of Cannabis and Opioids

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2022) C2

This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis. The first chapter of the booklet provides an overview of opioids as a group of substances and their patterns of non-medical use at the global level. It also reviews the latest trends in the global supply of opi ... more