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Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study

Masumbuko ClaudeK, Underschultz J,Hawkes MT (2019) CC

PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104. The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o ... more

Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-based Violence (GBV) Programming in Humanitarian Settings
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Leora Ward, Emma Pearce, Dale Buscher et al. Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and The International Rescue Committee (IRC) (2015) C1

Women and girls with mental and intellectual disabilities were perceived to be most at risk of sexual violence, and family and service providers may only become aware of sexual violence against them when they become pregnant. Discrimination by GBV service providers, family and community members was ... more

Wheelchair service training package - For Managers (Trainer’s Manual)

Sarah Frost, Chapal Khasnabis, Kylie Mines, and Lourdes de la Peza WHO (2015) C_WHO

WHO published and launched the third part of the Wheelchair Service Training Package (WSTP) series consisting of two sub-packages: the Wheelchair Service Training Package for Managers (WSTPm) and the Wheelchair Service Training Package for Stakeholders (WSTPs). WHO recognises that in order to develo ... more

“I Would Like To Go To School”. Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Lebanon

Human Rights Watch (2018)

This report finds that although Lebanese law bars schools from discriminating against children with disabilities, public and private schools exclude many children with disabilities. For those allowed to enroll, schools often lack reasonable accommodations, such as modifications to the classroom envi ... more

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak Containment Strategy and Red Cross / Red Crescent Response Plan (MDRCD026) Emergency Appeal Revision no. 4

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2019) C1

Catholic Social Thought and Human Dignity

F. Kammer Reflection CST (2015) C1

Twice invisible: Accounting for internally displaced children

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2019) C1

Internally displaced children are twice invisible in global and national data. First, because internally displaced people (IDPs) of all ages are often unaccounted for. Second, because age-disaggregation of any kind of data is limited, and even more so for IDPs. Planning adequate responses to meet ... more

A summary of the new GINA strategy: a roadmap to asthma control

Reddel, H. K.; Bateman, E. D.; Becker, A.; et al. (2015) CC2

Over the past 20 years, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has regularly published and annually updated a global strategy for asthma management and prevention that has formed the basis for many national guidelines. However, uptake of existing guidelines is poor. A major revision of the GINA r ... more

Embracing Practices of Inclusion

Doug Reeler, Akke Schuurmans, Jeroen Overweel MCNV, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, and World Granny (2016) CC

Stories of how people in Georgia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Vietnam made inclusive development happen in their societies. It contains significant experiences andlessons learnt about the practice of inclusive development for a wide range of excluded or marginalised groups, useful for policy-mak ... more

Community-based Inclusive Education: Best Practices from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Pförtner, K. (2014) CC

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, Vol.25 (2014) pp.72-81 This article highlights some lessons about the strategy of community-based inclusive education, drawn from different programmes in Latin America.

Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings (IASC)
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee UNAIDS (2010)

Harmonized monitoring and evaluation indicators for procurement and supply management systems

WHO (2011) C_WHO

Early-warning indicators to prevent stock-outs and overstocking of antiretroviral, antituberculosis and antimalaria medicines.

Cameroon: Les enfants handicapés

UNICEF (2013) C1

Understanding and Responding to Children’s Needs in Inclusive Classrooms

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2001) C2

A Guide for Teachers

Targeting of social Protection in 11 Ethiopian villages

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2018) C1

Managing Drug Interactions in the Treatment of HIV-Related Tuberculosis (CDC)

Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (2019) C_CDC

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Division of Tuberculosis Elimination Accessed: 08.10.2019

Developing Key Messages for Communities on GBV & COVID-19

Protection Cluster, UNFPA (2020) CC

In humanitarian settings, tailoring community engagement interventions for gender, language, and local culture improves communities’ uptake with interventions. Measures taken to prevent and respond to COVID-19 pandemic such as confinement may increase GBV, especially domestic violence and Intimate ... more

COVID References top 10 Daily Science. Vol.1 (30 December 2019 – 15 October 2020)

Hoffmann, C.; B.S. Kamps (2020) CC

There is no secret to our procedure: the daily scanning of the literature helps us to stay afloat in the never-ending waves of new publications about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Many papers discussed in the Top 10 will eventually make it into subsequent editions of COVID Reference.