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WASH’Nutrition: A practical guidebook on increasing nutritional impact through integration of WASH and Nutrition programmes

J. Dodos Action Contre la Faim (ACF) International, (2017) C1

For practitioners in humanitarian and development contexts

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Regional Plan of Action for Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness in East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) operation n° MDR64007

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2015)

Situation analysis Description of the disaster An Ebola epidemic that started in March 2014 in Guinea has relentlessly continued to claim lives and to spread to other countries in West Africa. The current Ebola outbreak is the largest in history and the first to affect multiple countries simu... more

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The Future of Humanitarian Security in Fragile Contexts - An analysis of transformational factors affecting humanitarian action in the coming decade

Armstrong, J.; European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2014) C2

The transformation of the humanitarian landscape has already made a significant impact on the operational security of INGOs and other humanitarian actors. This report serves to inform strategic policy priorities and approaches to security planning and coordination, and addresses three main questions... more

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Drug Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals

Health Poverty Action, International Drug Policy Consortium (2015) C2

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched in September 2015, made up of 17 Goals and 169 Targets that set out a plan of action that will shape the mainstream development agenda for the next 15 years1. There has already been much debate about how these Goals will be achieved, but the sig... more

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Manual for the Public Health Management of Chemical Incidents (English, French and Spanish version)

World Health Organization (2009) C_WHO

The purpose of the WHO Manual for the Public Health Management of Chemical Incidents is to provide a comprehensive overview of the principles and roles of public health in the management of chemical incidents and emergencies. While this information is provided for each phase of the emergency cycle, ... more

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Promising Responses to HIV and AIDS in Agriculture, Rural Development, Self-help and Social Protection

Iris Onipede, Ellen Schmitt Misereor (2010)

This document was conducted as a desk study and provides useful information and practical examples of responses to HIV and AIDS in the fields of agriculture, rural development, self-help and social protection. It aims to invite Misereor partners and others working in these fields to reflect on their... more

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Core Set of Indicators & Indicator Data Sheets for Health and Social Health Protection

Deutsche Gesellschaft fü; r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ;; KfW (2012)

The Core Set of Indicators and respective Indicator Data Sheets aim to pave the way towards a common understanding, greater consistency and comparability across countries and alignment of results chains of German Development Cooperation in the field of health and social health protection with the in... more

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Rapid communication on updated guidance on the management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This rapid communication outlines the main outcomes of a WHO convened Guideline Development Group (GDG) meeting, held in May-June 2021 on the topic of the management of TB in children and adolescents. The rapid communication aims to inform staff from ministries of health and care providers across p... more

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The impact of Covid-19 on HIV, TB and Malaria Services and Systems for Health: a Snapshot from 502 health facilities across Africa and Asia

The Global Fund (2021) CC

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world beyond imagination. To date, it has infected more than 135 million people, killed over 2.9 million people, and is projected to plunge up to 115 million people into extreme poverty.1 As countries have gone into lockdown, gender-based violence has incr... more

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Atlas of Palliative Care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Osman, H.; A. Rihan; E. Garralda, et al. BALSAM; ICS; Atlantes (2020) C_WHO

The Atlas of Palliative Care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region is the first systematic attempt to assess the status of resources, activities, and needs of palliative care in the region. It provides a comparative picture of the current state of palliative care in simple and clear graphics, utilisin... more

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Urogenital Schistosomiasis among Schoolchildren and the Associated Risk Factors in Selected Rural Communities of Kwara State, Nigeria

Sundar, S.; Abdulkareem, B.; Habeeb, K. et al. (2018) CC

Urogenital schistosomiasis is a common neglected tropical disease in many rural communities in African countries, with patches of infection in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Globally, an estimated 239 million people are currently infected, with burden estimated at more than 3.5 million disability... more

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Resources to Support Marginalized Caregivers of Children with Disabilities: Guidelines for Implementation

UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

These guidelines have been compiled for education ministries or other educational leaders (including development partners, non-governmental or private organizations working with schools or directly with caregivers) who want to adapt and adopt resources to support the marginalized caregivers of child... more

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iagnostic Gaps and Recommendations for Human African Trypanosomiasis: Assessment of User Needs, Use Cases, and the Diagnostic Landscape

PATH (2016) C2

In support of the London Declaration goals, PATH aims to catalyze engagement of the diagnostics industry and product development efforts. As part of this work, PATH conducted a diagnostic landscape analysis to identify gaps and evaluated current and nascent HAT diagnostics that may provide solutions... more

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Social Appropriation of Knowledge and its contributions to the prevention of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural contexts

Paipilla, K., Castro-Arroyave, D., Grajales,L. et al. BMJ Innovations (2022) CC

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected infectious endemic disease that is transmitted through the bite of a vector insect (sandfly) of the Lutzomyia genus,typical of rural geographical territories, and causes disfiguring skin ulcers and disabilities. It is estimated that CL affects between 600�... more

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Prevalence of Scabies and Associated Factors among Primary School Children in Raya Alamata District, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2017/2018

Tefera, S.; Teferi, M.; Ayalew, A. et al. ClinMed International Library (2020) CC

Scabies is a skin infection that is a result of direct skin to skin contact and is primarily mediated by close and extended contact with scabies infested person. Scabies occurs worldwide among people of all ages, races, genders and social classes and has been identified as a neglected tropical infec... more

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Keeping the vector out: housing improvements for vector control and sustainable development

Kraef, C.; Röbbel, N. World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Vector-borne diseases are responsible for 17% of the global burden of communicable diseases and more than 500 000 deaths annually. The ambitious global targets for the control of vector-borne diseases come in the context of the (re-)emergence of diseases, increasing resistances to insecticides and u... more

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The urgency of now - Turning the tide against epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) (2021) CC

CEPI is seeking to raise $3.5 billion to implement CEPI’s next 5-year plan. To mitigate the immediate threat of COVID-19 variants, it is activating key elements of this plan now—and seeking to mobilise a portion of this $3.5 billion in 2021. We have already launched R&D programmes to initiate de... more

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Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa

Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger, Marco Sanfilippo European University Institute (2019) C1

We combine data on Chinese development projects with data from Demographic and Health Surveys to study the impact of Chinese aid on household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. We use a novel methodology to test the effect of Chinese aid on three important development outcomes: education, health, and nu... more

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Epidemiology of Peripheral Artery Disease and Polyvascular Disease

Aday A.W.; Matsushita, K. Circulation Research (2021) CC

Atherosclerotic lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is increasingly recognized as an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that affects more than 230 million people worldwide. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors, including advanced age, smoking, and diabetes, are ... more

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Guidelines for Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Indian Council of Medical Research (2022) CC2

The ICMR type 1 diabetes guidelines come at a time when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disproportionately affected people with diabetes population, exposing them to a high risk for severe illness and mortality. Globally, diabetes was responsible for over fourmillion deaths in the year 2019. It was th... more