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Assistance to Victims of Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War: Guidance on Child-focused Victim Assistance. Chapter 5.1.: Data collection and analysis

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2014)

Orientaciones para la estructuración de laboratorios de entomología en salud pública

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2019) C_WHO

El documento ayudará a los países a identificar las áreas de necesidades y determinar cómo se puede reforzar la red de entomología, especialmente en el contexto de un sistema de salud descentralizado. Las recomendaciones también tienen en cuenta los diferentes grados de desarrollo y las difere ... more

Packages of Care for Depression in Low- and Middle- Income Countries

Patel V, Simon G, Chowdhary N, Kaaya S, Araya R (2009) CC

PLoS Med. 2009 Oct;6(10):e1000159. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000159. Epub 2009 Oct 6.

Preventing Suicide

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

A resource for pesticide registrars and regulators. The WHO urged governments to restrict access to highly toxic pesticides used for self-poisoning . Other effective interventions include education, youth intervention programs and follow-up of people at risk—and better data. Only 80 out of 183 WH ... more

Improving Surveillance on Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection in Kazakhstan

A. Tursynbayeva; M. Idrissova; T. Markabaeva; et al. The Open Infectious Diseases Journal (2013) CC

The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2013, 7, (Suppl 1: M6) 54-59

Antimicrobial Stewardship from Principles to Practice

British Society for antimicrobial chemotherapy BSAC (2018) C2

Scientists have known for more than half a century that patients could develop resistance to the drugs used to treat them. Alexander Fleming, who is credited with creating the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928, cautioned of the impending crisis while accepting his Nobel prize in 1945: “There ... more

Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) Evaluation of UNICEF’s Psychosocial Support Response for Syrian Children in Jordan

UNICEF (2015) C_UNICEF

This evaluation report of UNICEF’s Psychosocial Support Response for Syrian Children in Jordan was conducted by Antares Foundation team (Albertien van der Veen, Reem AbuKishk, Shadi Bushnaq, Orso Muneghina, Reem Rawdha and Tineke van Pietersom) under the supervision of guidance Farhod Kamidov, M ... more

Principled Aid in SyriaA Framework for International Agencies

Haid Haid (2019) C1

Research Paper. As the fighting in Syria winds down, international humanitarian organisations (IHOs) operating from Damascus are hopeful that the Syrian government’s interference in their work will decrease. However, the government is attempting to formalise its influence over humanitarian operat ... more

Haiti: Earthquake - Emergency Appeal №: MDRHT018

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2021) CC

Early damage assessments indicate that at least 800,000 people could be directly exposed to minor to severe damages, including communication, access, security, loss of livelihoods, infrastructure, and health services could be impacted.

National Guidelines on Second-line ART for Adults and Adolescents India

National AIDSControl (NACO), Government of India; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2011) C1

This resource consists of technical guidelines for District Medical Officers, counselors and laboratory technicians for second-line antiretroviral therapy drugs, operational guidelines for pilot roll-out in two centres and laboratory guidelines for viral-load testing and standard operating procedure ... more

Philippines: A Training Manual for Health Workers on Healthy Lifestyle - An Approach for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Trainers Guide

WHO and DOH Philippines (2009) C_WHO

This revised trainer's guide contains a prototype training schedule for four days. Teaching and learning strategies are highly interactive, using participatory and experiential approach. Training outcomes include developing skills in assessment of clients for risk factors; conduct basic screening pr ... more

United against Rabies Collaboration

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically dis ... more

A Roadmap on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among People Living With Diabetes

Mitchell, S.; Malanda, B.; Damasceno, A. et al. World Heart Federation (2019) CC

In 2014, the World Heart Federation (WHF) launched an initiative to develop a series of Roadmaps [1e6]. Their aim is to identify potential roadblocks on the pathway to effective prevention, detection, and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD), along with evidence-based solutions to overcome ... more

Standard treatment guidelines major trauma

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India (2014) C1

WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2008-2011

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2009) C_WHO

Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Richardson, C.R.; Borgeson, J. R.; Harrison, V.; et al. National Library of Medicine (2021) CC2

The document "Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" provides comprehensive guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults. It emphasizes the importance of individualized glycemic targets, lifestyle interventions like diet and exercise, and the use of medicatio ... more

India: Guidelines for Quality Assurance of smear microscopy for diagnosing tuberculosis

Government of India, Central Tuberculosis Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2005) C1

Malaria Control in Humanitarian Emergencies. An Inter-Agency Field Handbook
recommended

Jose Nkuni, Natasha Howard, Abraham Mnzava et al. World Health Organization (2013) C_WHO

2nd edition. The interagency field handbook on malaria control was developed to set out effective malaria control responses in humanitarian emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. This second edition represents a thorough u ... more

WHO Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support after the Tsunami

World Health Organization WHO (2005) C_WHO

This brief document aims to provide a framework for WHO assistance in this area.