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Safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls

UN Women (2022) C_WHO

One of the principles underpinning the delivery of all essential services and coordination of those services is the “survivor-centered approach”, which places the human rights, needs, and wishes of women and girl survivors at the centre of service delivery. A key challenge faced by many entit... more

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Global guidance on criteria and processes for validation: elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus

EMTCT Global Validation Advisory Committee, Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Validation of elimination of mother-to-child transmission, or vertical transmission, of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus (HBV), is an attestation that a country has successfully met standard criteria for elimination, or for being at 1 of the 3 levels of achievement on the ‘Path to Elimination�... more

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A Guidance for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Indigenous Populations in the Region of the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, whose TB incidence is much higher than that of the general population. To achieve tuberculosis control in these communities, it is necessary to respond t... more

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Disability considerations for COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

Available in Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish; WHO and UNICEF policy brief, 19 April 2021 Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, both directly because of infection, and indirectly because of restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus. Persons with di... more

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How COVID-19 is changing the world. Vol.III

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2021) C1

Since the release of the first volume in May 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to rage around the world. By mid-March, 2021, countries around the globe had reported over 123 million cases—a nearly five-fold increase since this report’s previous volume—and over 2.7 million deaths attrib... more

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Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home

Kivelä, L. & Tajima-Simpson, M. Save the Children (2021) CC

After ten years of war, the vast majority of Syria’s children cannot imagine a future in their country, according to a new report by Save the Children. On average, 86% of Syrian refugee children surveyed in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands said they would not want to return to their cou... more

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Safe Back to School: A Practitioner’s Guide

Save the Children; Education Cluster; Protection Cluster et al. (2020) C2

The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrup... more

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Policy Brief: The impact of COVID-19 on older persons

United Nations (2020) C2

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold fear and suffering for older people across the world. As of 26 April, the virus itself has already taken the lives of some 193,710 people, and fatality rates for those over 80 years of age is five times the global average. As the virus spreads rapidly to devel... more

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A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19

United Nations (2020) C2

The “United Nations Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19: Shared responsibility, global solidarity and urgent action for people in need” calls for protecting jobs, businesses and livelihoods to set in motion a safe recovery of societies and economies as soon as possibl... more

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South Africa Emergency Appeal for the Impact of Covid-19

UNCT South Africa (2020) C2

South Africa reported it fist case of COVID-19 on 5 March 2020. While the first cases were imported, local transmission has led to a rapid increase in the number of cases. As of 21 April 2020, more than 3,400 cases and 58 deaths had been confirmed. On 15 March, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a n... more

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Rights in a pandemic – Lockdowns, rights and lessons from HIV in the early response to COVID-19

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

These include taking proactive measures to ensure that people, particularly people in vulnerable groups, can access HIV treatment and prevention services, designating and supporting essential workers, including community-led organizations, and implementing measures to prevent and address gender-base... more

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Americas: Population Movement Emergency Appeal n° MDR42004 - Operations Update no. 1, 1 February 2019

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2019)

By December of 2019, an estimated 5.3 million Venezuelans would have left the country, migrating in search of opportunities, health services and an overall search to improve the socio-economic conditions of themselves and their families. This is the largest migration in the history of the Americas. ... more

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Increasing uptake of HIV testing and counselling among men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Myanmar

USAID (2017) C1

Policy Brief, Updated in March 2017
Key messages
• The criminalisation of male-to-male sex heightens HIV and other sexually transmissible infection (STI) risks and vulnerabilities, and hinders access to HIV and STI services including HCT.
• Men who have sex with men (MSM) and tran... more

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Population mobility and malaria

World Health Organization ( WHO), Regional Oﬃce for South-East-Asia (2017) C_WHO

Review of International, Regional and National Policies and Legal Frameworks that Promote Migrants and Mobile Populations' Access to Health and Malaria Services in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam)
Migrants and mobile popul... more

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Living conditions among people with disability in Nepal

Arne H. Eide, Shailes Neupane, Karl-Gerhard Hem SINTEF Technology and Society (2016) C1

This report is from the National study on living conditions among people with disabilities carried out in Nepal in 2014-2015. The study was carried out as a household survey with two-stage stratified sampling, including a screening/listing procedure using the Washington Group on Disability Statis... more

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The Socio-Economic Impact of People Living with HIV at the Household Level in Myanmar

Cercone, James; Pinder, Étoile; Pothuis, Michal et al. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports; UNDP (2016) C1

The study collected data on the impact of HIV-related diseases on income, revenues, economic dependency, consumption, education, health, food security, stigma, discrimination, quality of life, and migration. The study also assessed people living with chronic diseases in order to compare the impact o... more

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‘ELIMU KWANZA!’ - A Brighter Future for the Children of DRC Safe Education for Internally Displaced Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo

War Child Holland War Child Holland (2014) C1

Prioritise education in conflict-affected areas: Across the world 28 million1 primary school-age children living in conflict-affected countries are out-of-school, and they form half of the world’s total out-of-school population. During conflict, infrastructure assets such as schools are damaged... more

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INEE Minimum Standards Handbooks

Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (2010) CC

This resource presents "the minimum level of educational quality and access in emergencies through to recovery. The aim of the handbook is to enhance the quality of educational preparedness, response and recovery; to increase access to safe and relevant learning opportunities for all learners, regar... more

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WHO Information Series on School Health

World Health Organization (WHO); Unicef; Education International ; et al. World Health Organization (WHO); Unicef; Education International ; et al. (2004) C_WHO

Teachers' Exercise Book for HIV Prevention Document 6.1 This booklet contains all the participatory learning experiences that are included in the Training and Resource Manual on School Health and HIV and AIDS Prevention. It is to be given to all teachers who receive training as part of the EI/WH... more

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ATENCIÓN A NIÑOS Y NIÑAS SOBREVIVIENTES DE ABUSOS SEXUALES DIRECTRICES

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2024) CC

Produced by UNICEF and IRC, with the support of the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ) and the generous funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Caring for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse (CCS) Resource Package (Second Editi... more