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The missing link: Rethinking and reprioritizing HIV and gender-based violence in fragile settings

UNAIDS (2024) C_WHO

This report explores the extent to which evidence, policy, normative guidance and commitments on HIV and gender-based violence, and their interlinkages, is being translated into action on the ground in fragile settings. These issues are explored through the lens of training of peace support operatio ... more

Contextual factors influencing schistosomiasis treatment and identification of delivery platforms for arpraziquantel in hard-to-reach areas and populations in Homa Bay County, Kenya

Isaiah PM, Afriyie DO, Maghanga M, (2024) CC

PLOS Glob Public Health 4(12): e0004035. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004035. A new formulation of praziquantel, arpraziquantel (arPZQ), has been developed for preschool- aged children (PSAC) to fill the treatment gap for this age group in schistosomiasis control and elimination program ... more

Handbook - Guidelines for an Integrated Approach to the Nutritional care of HIV-infected children (6 months-14 years)

World Health Organization (2009)

Preliminary version for country introduction

Intervention Healing communities by strengthening social capital: a Narrative Theatre approach - Training facilitators and community workers

Yvonne Sliep War Trauma Foundation (2009)

Strengthening community mental health resources by training refugees as peer counselors - A manual for trainers

Josi Salem-Pickartz Al Himaya Foundation for Trauma Recovery, Growth and Resilience (2008)

One Year On Nepal Earthquake Response - Progress Review

Save The Children (2016) C1

Networking for Policy Change A Participant’s Guide

Stop TB Partnership; World Health Organization; Constella Futures (2007) C_WHO

Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Participant’s Guide WHO/HTM/TB/2007.384b “TB is too often a death sentence for people with AIDS. It does not have to be this way.” -Nelson Mandela, International conference on HIV and AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004.

Multidimensional Child Deprivation Trend Analysis in Ethiopia

Plavgo, Ilze, Martha Kibur, Mahider Bitew, Tesfayi Gebreselassie, Yumi Matsuda, and Roger Pearson ICF International (2013) C1

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic and Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 83

The Malawi Girls' Empowerment Through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE): 2017 Performance Evaluation Report

Falconer-Stout, Z., K. Simmons, P. Godbole, S. Topolansky, R. Frischkorn, and L. Franco USAID (2018) C1

This external performance evaluation of the Malawi Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE), conducted 2.5 years after ASPIRE began, establishes the activity’s progress against its objectives, proposes adaptations for the final year, and captures lessons for application ... more

Global action plan on the public health response to dementia 2017-2025

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Areas for action include: increasing prioritisation and awareness of dementia; reducing the risk of dementia; diagnosis, treatment and care; support for dementia carers; strengthening information systems for dementia; and research and innovation.

G1 Substance use disorders: alcohol misuse

Joseph M Rey IACAPAP (2015) C1

Community based approaches to MHPSS programmes: a guidance note

IASC IASC (2015) CC

Community-based approaches to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (CB MHPSS) in emergencies are based on the understanding that communities can be drivers for their own care and change and should be meaningfully involved in all stages of MHPSS responses. Emergency-affected people are first a ... more

WHO recommendation on umbilical vein injection of oxytocin for the treatment of retained placenta

World Health Organization (2020) C_WHO

The recommendation in this document thus supersedes the previous WHO recommendation for the prevention of PPH as published in the 2012 guideline, WHO recommendations for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage.

Basic Nursing Care Manual - Mnazi Mmoja Clinic Ned Institute Ned Zanzibar Ned Foundation

NED Foundation nurses volunteers (2013) CC

This manual is about the basic nursing care - desinfection, cleaning, sterilization, nursing documentation, hygiene, surgical care and preparation and much more. This booklet has been prepared by the NED Volunteers Foundation.

International Assistance for HIV/AIDS in the Developing World: Taking Stock of the G8, Other Donor Governments and the European Commission

Kates J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2006) CC

As the Group of Eight (G8) world leaders meet in Saint Petersburg, Russia for this year’s G8 Summit, it is important to take stock of international efforts to finance the response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Financing a sufficient and sustained response to the epidemic has emerged as one of t ... more

Ebola Needs Analysis Project (ENAP): Sierra Leone Multi-Sector Assessment Reports (April 2015)

Assessment Capacities Project (2015)

The number of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone is declining, despite the outbreak continuing to claim lives. New cases have dropped to around 9-12 per week, according to recent WHO figures. There were over 500 cases per week at the height of the crisis around late November 2014. The impact on t ... more

Confronting the mental health emergency on Samos and Lesvos: Why the containment of asylum seekers on the Greek islands must end

MSF (2017) C1

As detailed in MSF’s report Confronting the mental health emergency on Samos and Lesbos, the scale of the needs for mental healthcare and the severity of patients’ conditions have overwhelmed the capacity of mental health services on the islands.

The future of learning and technology in deprived contexts

Save the Children (2020) CC

This report addresses the future of basic education, ICT use in deprived locations, and the use of ICTs in primary school learning in 2020 and 2025, especially in deprived contexts. It draws on research evidence from the literature, the authors’ experiences of ICT use in education initiatives, int ... more

Guidance for country validation of viral hepatitis elimination and path to elimination

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Building on the 2021 Interim guidance, this second version and update, incorporates the lessons and feedback from the hepatitis pilots that successfully demonstrated the feasibility of measuring hepatitis B and C impact targets to demonstrate elimination, whilst highlighting challenges caused by hig ... more

Sixteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTDs)

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

The sixteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) was held as a hybrid meeting, 27–28 September 2022. Dr Ren Minghui, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, welcomed participan ... more