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The Burden of Breadwinning: Transformative Masculinities in the Context of HIV, Violence against Women and Gender Inequality

Brot für die Welt (2016) C2

Since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, gender mainstreaming has become a widespread strategy for changing unequal social and institutional structures which discriminate against women and girls, with the goal of achieving gender equality. Much has changed for women since 1995: ... more

HEARTS Paquete técnico para el manejo de las enfermedades cardiovasculares en la atención primaria de salud. Hábitos y estilos de vida saludables: asesoramiento para los pacientes

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2018) C_WHO

Los módulos que conforman el paquete técnico HEARTS están dirigidos a los formuladores de políticas públicas y gerentes, directores o coordinadores de programas a diferentes niveles dentro de los ministerios de salud cuyo trabajo influye sobre la prestación de servicios de salud a nivel primar ... more

Compendium of good practices in the health sector response to HIV in the WHO European Region

Dr. M. Dara; Z. T. Gavry; M. Mansfeld World Health Organization (Europe) (2018) C_WHO

Uniting to Build HIV Prevention for Drug Users - The Georgian Harm Reduction Network

P. Case USAID; PEPFAR (U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), AIDSTAR-One (2012) C2

AIDSTAR-One | CASE STUDY SERIES November 2012

World Drug Report 2019 Booklet 1 Executive summary / Policy implications

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODOC (2022) C1

The World Drug Report 2022 is aimed not only at fostering greater international cooperation to counter the impact of the world drug problem on health, governance and security, but also, with its special insights, at assisting Member States in anticipating and address-ing threats from drug markets an ... more

Guidelines for Risk Analysis of Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2021) CC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health concern and a food safety issue. When pathogens become resistant to antimicrobial agents they can pose a greater human health risk as a result of potential treatment failure, loss of treatment options and increased likelihood and severi ... more

AMR Policy Insights

OECD (2016) C2

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex issue of global concern. AMR is not simply a problem of medical science being beaten by nature; human action and perverse incentives play a major role in its development. The misuse of antibiotics in the medical, veterinary and agricultural sectors, which ... more

Antibiotic Resistance in Food Animals in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Founou, L.L.; D. Gyamfi Amoako, R. Carrel Founou, et al. (2015) C2

MICROBIAL DRUG RESISTANCEVolume 24, Number 5, 2018ªMary Ann Liebert, Inc.DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2017.0383 Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a worldwide publichealth concern, with serious health, economic, and so-cietal repercussions. Its emergence is attributed to the se-lective pressure exerted by antib ... more

Philippine Action Plan to Combat AMR: One Health Approach

Phillipine Department of Health (2019) C_WHO

Antibiotics have been useful in fighting infectious diseases in our country for decades, but because of the overuse and misuse of these agents, an increasing number of organisms are now resistant to them. The Philippines, like other Southeast Asian countries, has already been encountering the many c ... more

United Nations COVID-19 Emergency Appeal Zambia (May - October 2020)

OCHA; UNCT Zambia (2020) C2

The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 18th March 2020. As of April 27th, 2020, there were 89 confirmed cases, three deaths and 42 recoveries. Confirmed cases are located in three provinces: Lusaka (83 cases), Copperbelt province (5 cases) and Central ... more

Safe return to work: Guide for employers on COVID-19 prevention

International Labour Organisation (2020) CC

This guide contains recommendations for health and safety practices and approaches to COVID-19 prevention, based on materials developed by many organisations.

Informing vaccination programs: a guide to the design and conduct of dengue serosurveys

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

In this document, recommendations are provided on designing and implementing a cross-sectional serosurvey using school-based sampling to estimate age-specific DENV seroprevalence to inform a country’s national dengue vaccination program. The document includes recommendations for methods for ... more

Populations at risk: Implications of COVID-19 for hunger, migration and displacement, November 2020

International Organization for Migration IOM; World Food Programme WFP (2020) C1

The report – the first of its kind – shows how the pandemic has driven up food insecurity and increased vulnerability among migrants, families reliant on remittances and communities forced from their homes by conflict, violence and disasters. The two UN agencies warn the social and economic ... more

Engaging Communities during a Pandemic: Experiences of Community Engagement during the COVID-19 Response in Camps and Out-of-Camp Settings

Norwegian Refugee Council NRC (2020) C1

This report presents examples from different agencies on how they approached community engagement in their Covid-19 responses, the tools and methodologies used, as well as the challenges they encountered and how they attempted to overcome these. It discusses what community engagement means to the va ... more

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs): Non Communicable Diseases NCD Module 13. Facilitators Manual

Ministry of Health, Division of Community Health Services, Division of Non-Communicable Diseases (2015) CC

This training module is meant to strengthen the capacity of CHVs to prevent the Non Communicable Diseases at the community level . The Government of Kenya is committed to supporting community health initiatives and accelerating the achievement of the KHSS&IP goals, Millennium Development G ... more

Interim recommendations for use of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, CoronaVac, developed by Sinovac

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

These WHO interim recommendations for use of the Sinovac-CoronaVac were developed on the basis of advice issued by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) and the evidence summary included in the background document and annexes referenced below. This document has been updat ... more

Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

J. Bueno de Mesquita; A. Kapilashrami; B. Mason Meier The Independent Panel (2021) CC

Background paper 11 The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response May 2021

Technical considerations for implementing a risk-based approach to international travel in the context of COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Interim guidanceAnnex to: Policy considerations for implementing a risk-based approach to international travel in the context of COVID-19, 2 July 2021