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Living conditions among People with Disabilities in Swaziland: A national representative study

Arne H Eide & Bhekie Jele SINTEF Technology and Society (2011) C1

This is a report from a National, representative household survey carried out in Swaziland in 2009 – 2010. A large amount of effort has been put into this two‐year exercise until finally we can present the results of the combined efforts. First of all, this is a credit to the Federation of Disab... more

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Speaking Out - Toolkit for MSM-Led HIV/AIDS Advocacy

J. Ripley; K. Lauer; C. Leopold The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) (2013) C2

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The Condition of the Girl Child worldwide - Fifth Edition

Indefes - Terre des Hommes (2016) C1

In the last five years, i.e. how old turned the Campaign “Indifesa” (Defenceless) in 2016, that was launched by Terre des Hommes in 2012, the world has become smaller. One can actually say that the derangements following the Arab Spring in 2011 reshuffled what is stable and what produces instabi... more

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MAKING IT HAPPEN: Examples of good practice in SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION & COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMMES

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (1993)

This monograph presents 12 reports of successful programs serving children with special needs in various nations. The program locations and the program report titles and authors are as follows: (1) Austria: "Integration Models for Elementary and Secondary Schools in Austria" (Volker Rutte)... more

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Childhood Disability and Poverty

Daniel Mont Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre (2014) C2

As the Convention of the Rights of Children recognizes, children are human beings with a distinct set of rights, and not the passive objects of care and charity. They deserve to be full participants in society, and to live lives free of poverty. But for children, living in poverty is particularly im... more

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Landmine Monitor 2017

International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) (2017) C3

This is the 19th annual Landmine Monitor report. It is the sister publication to the Cluster Munition Monitor report, first published in November 2010. Landmine Monitor 2016 provides a global overview of the landmine situation. Chapters on developments in specific countries and other areas are ava... more

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Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions. 18th edition

MSF Access Campaign Médecins Sans Frontières (2016) C3

This report provides an update on the key facets of HIV treatment access, including the latest HIV treatment guidelines from World Health Organization (WHO), an overview on pricing for first-line, second-line, and salvage regimens, and a summary of the opportunities for – and threats to – expand... more

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Situation Analysis and Recommendation: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Tanzania

Aboud S., R. Mdegela Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership—Tanzania Working Group (2015) C2

Antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents are invaluable life savers, particularly in resource-limited countries where infectious diseases are abundant. Both uncomplicated and severe infections are potentially curable as long as the aetiological agents are susceptible to the ... more

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Populorum Progressio Encyclical of POPE PAUL VI on the development of peoples

Holy Father Paul VI Libreria Editrice Vaticana (1967) C2

The progressive development of peoples is an object of deep interest and concern to the Church. This is particularly true in the case of those peoples who are trying to escape the ravages of hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance; of those who are seeking a larger share in the benefits of ci... more

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PAHO’s Response to Maintaining an Effective Technical Cooperation Agenda in Venezuela and Neighboring Member States, November 2016 to July 2020

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been facing a sociopolitical and economic situation that has negatively impacted social and health indicators. There have been intensified population movements both within the country and to other countries, particularly to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,... more

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FEEDcities project: Food Environment Description in cities – eastern Europe and central Asia Sarajevo. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019)

World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO

This technical report presents the results of a cross-sectional survey conducted in Sarajevo, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, between June and August 2017, as part of the FEEDcities Project (Food Environment Description in cities – eastern Europe and central Asia)... more

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Standard operating procedure (SOP) for health care in COVID-19 first line treatment centres (CFLTC)

Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of Kerala (2020) CC

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No respite: Violence against Health Care in Conflict

Safeguarding Health in Conflict, et al. (2021) CC

This report is documenting the global incidence of attacks and threats against health workers, facilities, and transport around the world. The report cites 806 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 43 countries and territories in ongoing wars and violent conflicts in 2020, r... more

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Toward Harmonization: Community Health Policy and Program Trends

USAID, JSI Research & Training Institute, fhi360 (2020) CC

The Community Health Systems (CHS) Catalog is a resource that provides information on community health program workers, and interventions for the 25 countries deemed priority by USAID’s Of of Population and Reproductive Health. It comprises a compilation of 25 country profiles developed from a de... more

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The public health implications of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study

Hamilton I., Kennard H., McGushin A. et al. (2021) C2

The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.5 Issue 2, Feb. 1,2021. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) serve to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement of staying “well below 2°C”, which could also yield substantial health co-benefits in the process. However, existing NDC commitments are inadequa... more

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Air quality index annual update

Greenstone, M.; C. Hasenkopf and K. Lee University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (2022) C1

During the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s economy slowed. Yet, the global annual average particulate pollution (PM2.5) was largely unchanged from 2019 levels. At the same time, growing evidence shows air pollution—even when experienced at very low levels—hurts human health. T... more

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Working Paper 46 - Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

Dreher, A.; A. Fuchs; B. Parks et al. AidData at William & Mary (2017) CC

This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing—including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state financing—from China to 138 countries between 2000 and 2014. We use these data to investigate whether and to what extent Chinese aid affects economic growth ... more

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A Compendium of Tools and Methods to Address Social Inequities Affecting the Health and Well-being of Women, Children, and Adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023) C_WHO

To support the achievement of health equity in the Region, the regional inter-agency movement Every Woman Every Child Latin America and the Caribbean (EWEC-LAC) advocates for and supports the use of equity and evidence-based policies, strategies and interventions to accelerate equitable progress in ... more

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Cardiovascular disease risk profile and management practices in 45 low-income and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level survey data

Peiris, D.; Ghosh, A.; Manne-Goehler, J. et al. PLoS Medicine (2021) CC

Global cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden is high and rising, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Focussing on 45 LMICs, we aimed to determine (1) the adult population’s median 10-year predicted CVD risk, including its variation within countries by socio-demographic char... more

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Individual-level data in 680 102 adults, The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative

Flood, D.; Seiglie, J.A.; Dunn, M.; et al. The Lancet healthy Longevity (2021) C2

Approximately 80% of the 463 million adults worldwide with diabetes live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). A major obstacle to designing evidence-based policies to improve diabetes outcomes in LMICs is the scarce availability of nationally representative data on the current patterns... more