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UN Women Humanitarian Strategy (2022–2025) In Brief

UN Women (2023) CC

This publication provides an overview of UN Women’s commitments to the humanitarian community guided by the “UN Women strategic plan 2022–2025”. It highlights areas where UN Women has a unique advantage in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across the humanitari... more

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Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the 2021 global survey 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The "Assessing National Capacity for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases: Report of the 2021 Global Survey" by WHO examines the global state of readiness and infrastructure for managing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) across countries. Based on the 2021 survey, it analyzes nationa... more

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A call to action: Protecting children on the move starts with better data

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Organization for Migration, UN Children's Fund, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2018) CC

Gaps in data covering refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced populations are endangering the lives and wellbeing of millions of children on the move, warned five UN and partner agencies today. In 'A call to action: Protecting children on the move starts with better data', UNICEF... more

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Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home

Kivelä, L. & Tajima-Simpson, M. Save the Children (2021) CC

After ten years of war, the vast majority of Syria’s children cannot imagine a future in their country, according to a new report by Save the Children. On average, 86% of Syrian refugee children surveyed in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands said they would not want to return to their cou... more

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Climate Smart Agriculture in Uganda

Feed the Future (2019) CC

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Network of WHO Collaborating centres for trachoma

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

SECOND MEETING REPORT DECATUR, GA, USA, 26 JUNE 2016

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WORLD HEART REPORT 2023 CONFRONTING THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE KILLER

Cesare, M.D.; Bixby, H.; Gaziano, T. et al. World Heart Federation (2023) CC

Global progress against cardiovascular disease (CVD) is flatlining. Though rates of CVD deaths globally have fallen in the last three decades, this trend has begun to stall and, without concerted efforts, is at risk of reversing.

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Global report on the epidemiology and burden of sepsis: Current evidence, identifying gaps and future directions

World Health Organisation (2020) CC

Sepsis contributes significantly to preventable mortality and is the final common pathway to death for severe infectious diseases; it can also arise as a complication of injuries and non-communicable diseases.

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2020 Global AIDS Update ⁠— Seizing the moment ⁠— Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics

UNAIDS (2020) CC

UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course. Missed targets have resulted in 3.5 million more HIV infections and 820 000 more AIDS-related deaths since 2015 than if the world w... more

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It's all in the detail. Developing effective health-realted job aids

Maddy Marasciulo-Rice; Sandrine Martin; Helen Counihan Malaria Consortium (2014)

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Kenya Nation e-health Policy 2016-2030

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2017) C1

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Introduction to Professional Nursing and Ethics

Amsale Cherie, Ato Hussen Mekonen, Tsehay Shimelse (2005) CC

Nurses at present are facing various personal, interpersonal, professional, institutional and socio cultural challenges in their professional performance. Dealing with these issues may not be always clear. The lack of one correct approach in addressing different conte... more

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Integrating female genital mutilation content into nursing and midwifery curricula: a practical guide

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This guide is intended to promote a global health sector response to FGM for the provision of high-quality prevention and care services to women and girls at risk of FGM or living with the consequences of FGM. It also aims to support the systematic development of pre-service and in-service FGM conte... more

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National Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for Health Care Settings in Kenya

Kenya Ministry of Health (2020) C1

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ACT Alliance Appeal: Post-Ebola Recovery Program in Liberia – LBR151 (Re-Issued)

ACT Alliance (2015)

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WHO/HIVRESNET HIV drug resistance - laboratory operational framework

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The aim of the operational framework is to ensure 1) accurate collection, handling, shipment and storage of specimens collected in countries implementing HIV drug resistance surveillance; and 2) the availability of quality-assured HIV genotyping laboratory services producing comparable and reliable ... more

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The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Strategic Response Plan for the WHO African Region February – December 2020 (Update 4 May 2020)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

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Guidelines for clinical placement in hospice and palliative care in Africa

Global Partners in Care; African Palliative Care Association (2014) CC

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Vienna Declaration: building forward better by transforming to new, clean, safe, healthy and inclusive mobility and transport

World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

The Vienna Declaration was signed at the end of the Fifth High-level Meeting on Transport, Health and Environment. The virtual meeting, hosted by the Federal Government of Austria, brought together 46 ministers and representatives of 56 countries in the pan-European region. The group discussed ho... more