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Qualité de L'Apport des Relais dans la PCIME Communautaire au Bénin; Quality of the contribution of community volunteers in Benin community-based IMCI

Panaveyi Vicky Malou Adom, Edgard Marius Ouendo, Lamidhi Salami, Gado Napo- Koura, Michel Makoutodé Cairn Info (2014) C2

Introduction : de nos jours, face à la pénurie grandissante de personnel de santé qualifié et face au défi de l’atteinte des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement, la participation communautaire est devenue une réalité incontournable. Dans la zone sanitaire Avrankou Adjarra Ak... more

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Desperate Journey: Europe's Refugee Crisis (Video)

Human Rights Watch (2015) C2

More than 800,000 asylum seekers and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea in 2015, with most traveling onward to northern and western EU countries. According to UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, 84 percent were from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, or Iraq – all countries experienci... more

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CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Trainers’ Manual: Stage 1

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2012)

Inclusive Project Cycle Management - This Inclusive Project Cycle Management (IPCM) training package has been developed for CBM staff and Partner Organisations worldwide. The Trainers’ Manual will guide CBM trainers. It contains the curriculum for the course and training resources for trainers to ... more

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How can financial risk protection be expanded in Myanmar?

Phone Myint; Than Tun Sein; Cassels, Andrew World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Policy Note #4: Myanmar Health Systems in Transition Policy Notes Series
Protecting people from financial hardship when they fall ill is one of the two key elements of universal health coverage (UHC). In practice, this means that the majority of health care costs have to be met from government ... more

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Using Nudges to Encourage Handwashing with Soap

Global Handwashing Partnership (2017) C1

For handwashing to be effective, it needs to be practiced consistently and thoroughly. Even when people have access to soap and water, and know how and why to wash their hands, many still do not properly wash their hands consistently at critical times. The handwashing behavior change challenge is no... more

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The spread of superbugs Why low and middle income countries must act now to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Malaria Consortium (2019) C2

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to our health, causing at least 700,000 deaths globally every year. The death toll attributed to AMR is predicted to rise, with most lives lost in low and middle income countries (LMICs). AMR is also a critical challenge for many other sectors, inc... more

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Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty

Sumner,A.; C. Hoy, and E. Ortiz-Juarez UNU-WIDER (2020) C1

In this paper they make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. The estimates are based on three scenarios: low, medium, and high global contractions of 5, 10, and 20 per cent;... more

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Key actions for National Societies on caring for volunteers in COVID-19

IFRC (2020) C1

Volunteers are impacted by COVID-19 like everyone else worldwide. They worry about being stigmatized by family and community members, fear contracting the virus, having to be in isolation or quarantine, losing colleagues etc. Volunteers may also be affected by witnessing the death of someone they su... more

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COVID-19 Innovation Hub

Global Innovation Exchange (2020) CC

The key objective is to celebrate, source, and supply innovations across 12 COVID-19 categories (i.e. response areas). The growing list of 800+ featured innovations includes those that are ready to deploy, plus innovations that could be adapted for COVID-19 responses, or inspire new, much-needed sol... more

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Situational Brief: Deportations and Irregular Migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mosca D. T., C. Marotta, F. di Gennaro, et al. Lancet Migration (2020) CC

The World Health Organization (WHO)6, the Civil Society Action Committee and the Lancet Migration global collaboration are amongst many organisations that have advised governments against returning irregular migrants during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The expulsion of i... more

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WHO Global Learning Laboratory for Quality UHC

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The WHO Global Learning Laboratory (GLL) for Quality UHC links the experiences, expertise, and wisdom of people across the world on important issues relating to quality in the context of UHC. The GLL is a safe space to share knowledge, experiences and ideas; to challenge ideas and approaches; and to... more

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Go Viral!

University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab in collaboration with media agency DROG and the UK Cabinet Office, World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

GO VIRAL! helps protect you against COVID-19 misinformation. You’ll learn about some of the most common ways false and misleading information about the virus are spread. Understanding these tricks allows you to resist them the next time you come across them online. Scientists who worked with us on... more

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Strengthening infection prevention and control in primary care
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This document aims to support those working in primary care to strengthen IPC, informed by existing WHO IPC guidance and implementation resources. Many of the existing WHO IPC guidance and implementation resources initially developed for acute health care facilities have a potential utility for IPC ... more

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Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

Wilkinson, J.L.; A.B. A. Boxall, D. W. Kolpin, et al. (2022) CC

PNAS 119 (8) e2113947119 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113947119 Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, m... more

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UN Climat Change Learning Partnership Courses and Resources Platform

UN Climat Change Learning Partnership (2022) CC

The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership, also known as UN CC:Learn, is a collaborative initiative of 36 multilateral organizations working together to help countries build the knowledge and skills they need to take action on climate change. These include better climate literacy and other cruc... more

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Breaking Myths About Neurodiversity

EZRA (2022) CC

Neurodiversity is associated with people who experience dyslexia, autism, dyspraxia, ADHD, and other similar neurological conditions. They’re known as “spectrum” conditions that cover a wide range of characteristics but share similarities in how people with these conditions learn and process... more

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Overview on Chikungunya Virus Infection: From Epidemiology to State-of-the-Art Experimental Models

Constant, L.E.C.; B.F. Rajsfus, P. H. Carneiro et al. Frontiers in Microbiology (2021) CC

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is currently one of the most relevant arboviruses to public health. It is a member of the Togaviridae family and alphavirus genus and causes an arthritogenic disease known as chikungunya fever (CHIKF). It is characterized by a multifaceted disease, which is distinguished fr... more

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Опитування для визначення стану підготовленості до зимового сезону людей похилого віку та людей з інвалідністю

HelpAge International; Protection Cluster; UNHCR Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) C2

The winter season is approaching fast, while older people (OP) and people with disabilities (PwD) have already been living in the harsh environment of a full-scale war for eight months, with their basic needs and human rights at risk of being neglected and violated for eight years of ongoing war. T... more

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Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Chronic Manifestations in Chagas Disease: A State-of-the-Art Review

Medina-Rincón, G.; Gallo-Bernal, S.; Jiménez, P.; et al. (2021) CC

Pathogens . 2021 Nov 16;10(11):1493.doi: 10.3390/pathogens10111493 .Chronic manifestations of Chagas disease present as disabling and life-threatening condi-tions affecting mainly the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems. Although meaningful research has outlined the different molecular mech... more

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Voices of Chagas: A disease that knows no borders

World Health Federation (2021) CC

First discovered more than 100 years ago, Chagas disease continues to affect more than six million people worldwide and is one of the most prevalent public health problems in Latin America and, increasingly, on a global scale. In the last decades, migratory patterns have spread the disease to areas ... more

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