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Intention to action series: Regional reflections. Analysis from informal regional consultations with people living with noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions 2023 WHO

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

This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-East Asia Region, European Region, Eastern Mediterranean Region, alongside three forums in the Western Pacific Region. It analyses the overarching similarit ... more

Global leishmaniasis surveillance updates 2023: 3 years of the NTD road map-english and french

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

This report on global leishmaniasis surveillance follows those published in 2016–2023.2–6 Six indicators of leishmaniasis are publicly available from the Global Health Observatory (GHO).7 In addition to the GHO, country profiles with up to 30 indicators are published, with detailed data received ... more

Harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Emergency Response Guidelines for Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride

American Chemistry Council (2007) C1

"The Emergency Response Guidelines for Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride (Guidelines) were prepared by the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Hydrogen Fluoride Panel (Panel). This document is intended to provide general information to persons addressing an emergency response in the course of handling ... more

Wheelchair service training package: Trainer's manual. Intermediate level
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Sarah Frost, Kylie Mines, Jamie Noon, Elsje Scheffler, and Rebecca Jackson Stoeckle WHO; USAID (2013) C_WHO

WSTP-I is the second part of the WHO wheelchair service training package series and focusses more on addressing the needs of people who have severe difficulties in walking and moving around and also having poor postural control .

Guidance on Critical Facilities

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project (2015)

Disaster Recovery Toolkit

Frequently asked questions - Zika virus expected to spread in Europe in late spring and summer: overall risk is low to moderate

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Basic Guide to Anesthesia for Developing Countries Vol.1
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Daniel D. Moos (2002) C4

Do no Harm - Health, Human Rights and people who use drugs

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS) (2019) C2

Accessed: 07.11.2019

Preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV

UNAIDS; WHO; hrp (2020) C_WHO

This programmatic brief explores how to expand HIV and STI prevention and contraceptive method options in contraceptive services and, thus, to reduce HIV and STI incidence among adolescent girls and women. It focuses on settings with extremely high HIV prevalence and incidence. This brief complement ... more

Lesotho: Situation Update 07 (as of 7 August 2017)

Office of the Resident Coordinator in Lesotho (2017) C2

United Nations Office of the Resident Coordinator | http://www.unlesotho.org/

Status of Antiretroviral Therapy Service Delivery in Uganda

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2010) C1

Child Labour Report 2015: Migrant Child Labour in the Thai Shrimp Industry

Friedel Hütz-Adams Südwind-Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene Terre des Hommes (2015) C1

Slavery on fishing vessels, degradation of ecosystems, overfishing, debt bondage, human trafficking and child labour in peeling sheds – the scandals surrounding the Thai fishery and shrimp industries have garnered international censure. Farmed and processed at the cost of extreme exploitation of b ... more

Guidelines for Implementing Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises

Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises (IHE) Initiative UNHCR (2007)

Nutrition Cluster Handbook
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Josephine Ippe, Diane Holland, Leah Richardson, et al. The Global Nutrition Cluster, UNICEF (2013) C1

The purpose of the handbook is to provide those involved in nutrition coordination with relevant tools, guidance, information and resources to support their roles in facilitating predictable, coordinated and effective preparation for, and responses to, nutrition needs in humanitarian emergencies. Ra ... more

Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound

Harald Lutz, and Elisabetta Buscarini WHO (2011)

The Core Humanitarian Standard and the Sphere Core Standards Analysis and Comparison - Interim Guidance, March 2015

Sphere Project (2015) C1

This short guide highlights the fundamentally similar approach to quality and accountability underlying both sets of standards and describes in some detail the similarities and differences between them. It compares the respective structures of the standards and notes their different emphases. It als ... more

Improving payment mechanisms to support a new delivery model for TB care in Romania

L. Imre, A. Lourenço, N. Ahamed, et al. World Health Organization Europe (2017) C_WHO

Multiple first-line therapies as part of the response to antimalarial drug resistance

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Effective malaria case management requires quick access to diagnostics and antimalarial treatments to reduce illness and death. Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been essential to malaria treatment since 2001, as it combines artemisinin for rapid parasite reduction with a partner drug ... more

Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

The 2018 global health financing report presents health spending data for all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2016 based on the SHA 2011 methodology. It shows a transformation trajectory for the global spending on health, with increasing domestic public funding and declining external financing. T ... more