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Field Guides to African Freshwater snail identification. South East African Species

Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory (1977) CC

These field guides to African freshwater snails of medical and veterinary importance were published by the Danish Bilharzia Laboratory in the 1980s-90s. They remain a valuable tool for researchers working on schistosomiasis and the intermediate host ... more

Guide des bonnes pratiques d'hygiène pour le personnel soignant

International Santé Info Solidarité (SIS) (2016) CC

Respecter les regles d'hygiène est crucial aussi bien pour la santé des patients que vous recevez que pour votre propre sécurité. On oublie souvent que la prévention des maladies infectieuses grace a l'hygiène sauve davantage de vie chaque ann ... more

ESC Guidance for the Diagnosis and Management of CV Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic

European Society of Cardiology (2020) C1

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV‑2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has reached pandemic levels; Patients with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and established cardiovascular disease (CVD) represent a vulnerab ... more

Experiencias de gobernabilidad en derechos de la niñez en América Latina y el Caribe 2016-17

Save the Children (2017) CC

La Gobernabilidad/Gobernanza en Derechos de la Niñez (CRG) es una de cinco áreas temáticas establecidas como tema global para implementar la estrategia hacia el 2030 de Save the Children. El trabajo de CRG busca ayudar a construir sociedades do ... more

Where there is no psychiatrist
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Patel, V.; C. Hanlen (2018) CC

2nd edition. The book is aimed at general health workers in low- and middle-income country settings and has some chapters on perinatal mental health. That said, it has definite applicability in high-income country settings too! In the new edition, there has been ... more

Attacks on Health Care. Prevent - Protect-Provide

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Currently there is no publicly available source of consolidated information on attacks on health care in emergencies. This report is a first attempt to consolidate and analyse the data that is available from open sources. While the data are not comp ... more

Community mental health centres: promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services set of publications. It provides a detailed de ... more

The Story of Cholera, Kannada
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Global Health Media Project Youtube (2012) C2

The Story of Cholera was produced in collaboration with award-winning animator Yoni Goodman. This animation covers cholera transmission, prevention, signs, and care in a simple and accessible way. The film follows evidence-based guidelines, has bee ... more

Yemen Cholera Outbreak Situation Report #1

UN Children's Fund (2016) C1

On October 6, 11 cases of Cholera were confirmed positive in one neighbourhood of the capital Sana’a. No confirmed cases have been reported in other locations in Yemen. UNICEF, together with WHO and Health authorities, have initiated ... more

Cómo combatir el cólera: Presentación y manejo clínico para el brote de cólera en Haití de 2010

CDC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010) C_CDC

The document titled "Cómo combatir el cólera" (How to Combat Cholera) provides comprehensive guidelines on the clinical presentation and management of cholera, particularly in the context of the 2010 Haiti outbreak. It emphasizes the importance of rapid rehydration as ... more

Best Practices for Engaging Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Establishing Synergies with the Education Sector: Learning from Protracted Refugee Settings in Uganda and Rwanda

Child Protection in Crisis Save the Children (2013) CC

The education sector forms an important part of the child protection response in refugee settings, and UNHCR’s Education Strategy (2012-16) reflects a focus on refugee education as a core componen ... more

Recommandations du Cluster Abris RDC dans la mise en oeuvre des activités en Abris et en AME relatives au COVID-19

Reliefweb; OCHA Services; Cluster Abris RD Congo (2020) CC

30/03/2020 (V1) 06/04/2020 (V2) Selon l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), la COVID-19 est la maladie infectieuse causée par le dernier coronavirus qui a été découvert. Ce nouveau virus était inconnu avant l’apparition de la flamb ... more

Global and regional estimates of violence against women

WHO, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council (2013)

Global and regional estimates of violence against women he report presents the first global systematic review of scientific data on the prevalence of two forms of violence against women: violence by an intimate partner (intimate partner violence) and sexual violence by someone other than ... more

Smart Capacity Building for Malaria: Experiences from Malawi

Management Science for Health MSH (2020) CC

Through the USAID-funded Organized Network of Services for Everyone’s Health (ONSE) Activity, MSH is assisting Malawi’s National Malaria Control Program to provide high-quality malaria services at the facility and community levels in 10 districts, covering nearly ... more

South Sudan Flash Update on Upper Nile | 27 April 2017

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2017) C1

Highlights An estimated 25,000 people have been displaced from Kodok, Tonga and surrounding villages. Displaced people are in urgent need of clean water and other life-saving assistance. Protection of civilians is a paramount co ... more

Global report on psoriasis

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Psoriasis, which can involve the skin, nails and joints, is a chronic, painful, disfiguring and disabling noncommunicable disease (NCD) for which there is no cure. It negatively impacts on quality of life. Some of those who suffer from the disease d ... more

Needs Assessment Package for Male Engagement Programming

EngenderHealthThe ACQUIRE Project (2008)

This package, developed jointly by The ACQUIRE Project and Promundo, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization, can be used by individuals, organizations, and donors to carry out needs assessments to identify gaps in male engagement programming relat ... more

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

World Health Organization WHO (2009)

In the area of nutrition and HIV, children deserve special attention because of their additional needs to ensure growth and development and their dependency on adults for adequate care. It was therefore proposed to first develop guidelines for children and thereafter consider ... more

Zika virus (ZIKV) Surveillance in the Americas: Laboratory detection and diagnosis
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Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas (2016) C_WHO

This algorithm is addressed to laboratories with established capacity(molecular, antigenic and/orserological) to detect dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), and chikungunya(CHIKV) as part of the differential diagnosis for arborviruses. A BSL2 containmen ... more