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Benin, Cambodia, Kenya, Malawi, and Rwanda: Best Practices in the Integration of TB and HIV/AIDS Services

Eliud Wandwalo, Claire Moodie, Yared Kebede Haile, Amos Kutwa, Odile Ferroussier, Chawalit Natpratan (2010) C1

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Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Programmes

WHO, Unicef WHO, Unicef (2012)

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Health Logistics in Nepal Two Decades of Investments in Public Health Supply Chain Management: How Access to Supplies Improved Health Outcomes in Nepal

USAID, Deliver Project (2014) C_WHO

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Evaluation of Community-based Health Insurance Pilot Schemes in Ethiopia: Final Report

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Ethioian Health Insurance Agency (2015) C1

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Philippines: 2014 - 2016 National Climate Change Adaptation in Health (CCAH) Strategic Plan

Department of Health (DOH) (2014) C1

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Policy Analysis and Advocacy Decision Model for HIV-Related Services

B. Pick; D. Wolfe; D. Burrows; F. Hariga; et al. USAID (From the American People); REPFAR; EURASIAN Harm Reduction Network; Health Policy Project (2012) C2

People Who Inject Drugs In addition, the following individuals of our external expert advisory committee made instrumental contributions to the initial design and content of the document: Billy Pick, USAID; Daniel Wolfe, Open Society Foundations; Dave Burrows, AIDS Projects Management Group; Fabi... more

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Accessibility of HIV Prevention, treatment and care services for People who Use drugs and incarcerated People in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Regional Office for Central Asia) (2010) C2

Legislative and Policy analysis and recommendations for reform

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2015 Health Facility Assessment for Reproductive Health Commodities and Services

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports, Department of Medical Research, Department of Public Health, Department of Medical Services, UNFPA (2016) C1

The report is based on comprehensive information collected at representative sample health facilities all over the country by well-organized and trained teams during May and August 2015. This is a continuation of 2014 Assessment activities and findings also reflect comparison between two consecutive... more

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Tobacco control as an accelerator for the sustainable development goals in Cambodia

United Nations Development Programme; World Health Organization (Cambodia); WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2018) C2

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Uganda: Mid Term Review of the 2010 – 2015 Malaria Strategic Plan

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2014) C1

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Public health risk assessment and interventions. Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoon Parma: the Philippines

World Health Organization (2009)

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India: Operational Handbook on Advocacy Communication and social mobilization (ACSM) for RNTCP

Government of India, Central Tuberculosis Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; USAID (2014) C1

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WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities - Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2012) C_WHO

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Preventing and managing COVID-19 across long-term care services

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Policy brief, 24 July 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities. In many countries, evidence shows that more than 40% of COVID-19 related deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities, with figures being as h... more

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"The greatest need was to be listened to": The importance of mental health and psychosocial support during COVID-19

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2020) C1

Experiences and recommendations from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Measures imposed by governments to prevent the spread of the disease, including lockdown restrictions, quarantines, physical distancing, and their economic and social consequences, further increase this dist... more

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Manual for the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza

World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

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Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map

Van Katwyk, S. R.; Grimshaw, J. M.; et al (2019) C2

BACKGROUND: Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidenc...e map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to reduce AMR, by identifying, describing, and assessing the full range of evaluated government policy options to reduce antimicrobial use in humans. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Seven databases were searched from inception to January 28, 2019, (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PAIS Index, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, and PubMed). We identified studies that (1) clearly described a government policy intervention aimed at reducing human antimicrobial use, and (2) applied a quantitative design to measure the impact. We found 69 unique evaluations of government policy interventions carried out across 4 of the 6 WHO regions. These evaluations included randomized controlled trials (n = 4), non-randomized controlled trials (n = 3), controlled before-and-after designs (n = 7), interrupted time series designs (n = 25), uncontrolled before-and-after designs (n = 18), descriptive designs (n = 10), and cohort designs (n = 2). From these we identified 17 unique policy options for governments to reduce the human use of antimicrobials. Many studies evaluated public awareness campaigns (n = 17) and antimicrobial guidelines (n = 13); however, others offered different policy options such as professional regulation, restricted reimbursement, pay for performance, and prescription requirements. Identifying these policies can inform the development of future policies and evaluations in different contexts and health systems. Limitations of our study include the possible omission of unpublished initiatives, and that policies not evaluated with respect to antimicrobial use have not been captured in this review. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first study to provide policy makers with synthesized evidence on specific government policy interventions addressing AMR. In the future, governments should ensure that AMR policy interventions are evaluated using rigorous study designs and that study results are published. more

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WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (‎PM2.5 and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The global burden of disease associated with air pollution exposure exacts a massive toll on human health worldwide: exposure to air pollution is estimated to cause millions of deaths and lost years of healthy life annually. The burden of disease attributable to air pollution is now estimated to be ... more

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Namibia: “We don’t feel well treated”: Tuberculosis and the Indigenous San peoples of Namibia

Amnesty International (2021) C1

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, though it can affect any organ in the body. It can develop when bacteria spread through droplets in the air. TB can be fatal, but in many cases, TB is preventable and treatable. This report examines the human rights impact of... more

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Kenya national action plan on antimicrobial resistance: review of progress in the human health sector

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief aims to provide a review of the current progress on implementing the Kenya national action plan on AMR, identifies critical gaps, and highlights findings to accelerate further progress in the human health sector. The target audience includes all those concerned with implementing ac... more