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Clinical management of rape and intimate partner violence in emergencies: training curriculum for health workers, facilitator guide: web annex B: participant job aids

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

The training you receive will give you the tools you need to feel confident about broaching the subject with your patients. Reviewing the materials the job aids, especially job aids 4a and 7a, can help refresh your knowledge in the months and years ahead. Remember, with practice over time, you will ... more

Linges directrices unifiées sur l'utilisation des Antirétroviraux pour le traitement et la prévention de l'infection à VIH

Organisation mondiale de la Santé (2013) C_WHO

Recommandations pour une Approche de Santé publique. Juin 2013.

Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and hygiene measures for home care and isolation for mpox in resource-limited settings: interim operational guide

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

This interim operational guide outlines infection prevention, control, and water, sanitation, and hygiene measures for home care and isolation of mpox in resource-limited settings. It focuses on practical strategies to manage and prevent the spread of the virus when persons with mpox are isolated at ... more

Crisis Management of Critical Incidents

Pete Buth, European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2010) C2

This EISF Briefing Paper seeks to outline the requirements of crisis management structures, providing a general guideline of crisis management planning, Crisis Management Teams (CMTs) and post-crisis follow-up. It is followed by the May 2010 EISF Briefing Paper, Abduction Management, that will focu ... more

Cities affected by Typhoons in the Philippines

François Grünewald; Béatrice Boyer Group URD; European Commission Humanitarian Aid (2012)

Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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World Health Organization WHO, IFRC; UNICEF (2020) C_WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging health systems across the world. Rapidly increasing demand for care of people with COVID-19 is compounded by fear, misinformation and limitations on the movement of people and supplies that disrupt the delivery of frontline health care for all people... This g ... more

Global priorities for climate change and mental health research

Fiona Charlson, Suhailah Ali, Jura Augustinavicius et al. Environment International (2022) CC

Compared with other health areas, the mental health impacts of climate change have received less research attention. The literature on climate change and mental health is growing rapidly but is characterised by several limitations and research gaps. In a field where the need for designing evidence-b ... more

Ethiopia Health Cluster Strategy 2024-2025

World Health Organization WHO; Health Cluster (2024) CC

Ethiopia has been repeatedly affected by conflict, flooding, drought, and disease outbreaks in the past years. As of January 2024, the country is actively responding to the longest recorded cholera outbreak which started in August 2022, recurrent measles outbreaks which started in August 2021, and t ... more

Monitoring asthma in children

Pijnenburg, M.W.; Baraldi, E.; Brand, P.L. et al. European Respiratory Journal (2015) CC

The goal of asthma treatment is to obtain clinical control and reduce future risks to the patient. To reach this goal in children with asthma, ongoing monitoring is essential. While all components of asthma, such as symptoms, lung function, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and inflammation, may exist i ... more

Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters: A Field Manual For First Responders. Second Edition
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Cordner, S.; R. Coninx; J.-J. Kim; et al. PAHOWorld Health Organization; ICRC; IFRC (2016) C_WHO

Proper and dignified management of the dead in disasters is one of the three key pillars of humanitarian response and a fundamental factor in facilitating identification of the deceased and helping families discover the fate of their loved ones. This second and updated edition of this hugely success ... more

International Standards of Drug Use Prevention

World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2019) C_WHO

2nd revised edition. Accessed Apri. 17, 2019 Prevention strategies based on scientific evidence working with families, schools, and communities can ensure that children and youth, especially the most marginalized and poor, grow and stay healthy and safe into adulthood and old age. For every dollar ... more

Out of step 2017

Médecins sans Frontières; Stop TB Partnership (2017) C3

TB policies in 29 Countries A survey of prevention, testing and treatment policies and practices

Оказание психологической и психиатрической помощи при чрезвычайных ситуациях

Назим Агазаде, Ирина Михайловна Никольская, Игорь Валерьевич Добряков et al. Сорос-Кыргызстан (2019) C2

Данное руководство представляет собой попытку объединения проверенных универсальных подходов к оказанию психологической и психиатрической помощи в чрезвыча� ... more

Best Practice Guidelines: Effective Skin and Wound Management of Non-Complex Burns

Wounds International (2014) CC

This document is a practical guide to the management of burn injuries for healthcare professionals everyhwere who are non-burn specialistsi

COVID-19 Multi-Sector Response Plan - Papua New Guinea Disaster Management Team (as of 21 May 2020)

UN Country Team in Papua New Guinea (2020) CC

This revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020.

Ukrainian Crisis - Situational Analysis 18 Nov 2022

Data Friendly Space Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) C2

Conflict In early October, Ukrainian forces continued recapturing areas of southern and eastern oblasts, notably Lyman (Donetsk oblast). The liberation of thousands of square kilometres resulted in the grim discovery of two new mass graves in Lyman and Sviatohirsk (containing of 120 civilian bodi ... more

Papua New Guinea: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2016) C1

The 2012 NDRMP lays out the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) architecture of the country and provides guidance for DRM intervention at all levels. However, implementation has been slow and resource challenges exist throughout the government.
The PNG government’s policy and institutional framework ... more

Health Cluster Guide

World Health Organization, IASC (2020) CC

A practical handbook. This Health Cluster Guide (2nd edition, 2020) provides practical advice on how WHO, Health Cluster Coordinators and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and disability, and restoring the delivery ... more

Surveillance for Zika virus infection, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Interim guidance

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

This document provides interim recommendations for the surveillance of Zika virus infection, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, in four different contexts and describes reporting requirements to WHO. Transmission refers to vector-borne transmission, unless specified differently. Autochthonou ... more

2018 South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2017) C1

This document provides the Humanitarian Country Team’s shared understanding of the crisis, including the most pressing humanitarian needs and the estimated number of people who need assistance. It represents a consolidated evidence base and helps inform joint strategic response planning. As ... more