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Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho

MSF South Africa and Lesotho Medecins Sans Frontieres (2009) C2

2006-2008 programme report

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Medicinal plants for forest conservation and health care

Bodeker, Gerard (Ed.) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (1997) C1

Non-Wood Forest Products 11 Traditional medicine and its use of medicinal plants is dependent on reliable supply of plant materials. The book focuses on the interface between medicinal plant use and conservation of medicinal plants.

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Fiscal Space for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2020) CC

In sum, the goal is to understand the need to increase fiscal space for health as a prerequisite, but within the framework of efforts to transform the health system. These changes should foster equitable and efficient expenditures and create or strengthen comprehensive integrated health systems with... more

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Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategy Framework 2014 –2024 (South Africa)
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National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2015) C1

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Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme Improving Financial Sustainability Based on Expenditure Review

Huihui Wang, Nathaniel Otoo, and Lydia Dsane-Selby World Bank Group (2017) C1

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Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa: A companion publication for Integrating Africa’s forgotten foods for better nutrition
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2024) CC

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a new Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa which is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive collection of 100 African forgotten food crops. Also referred to as neglected, underutilized or orphan crops, these species offer valua... more

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work in fragile, conflict and disaster settings

International Labour Organization (2022) CC

Conflicts and disasters, including pandemics, affect women and men in all their diversity differently, and women and girls often suffer the most. Crisis-related hardships combine and compound pre-existing disadvantages, for example, they often cause women’s working conditions to worsen while incre... more

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Kenya National Framework for the Organisation of Trauma Services

Kenya Ministry of Health (2021) C1

Saving Lives: Universal access to Trauma Services in Kenya

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Gendered Health Analysis: COVID-19 in the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

This document focus on the direct consequences of the virus (morbidity and mortality) in specific populations and on the results of measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, with indirect impacts on socio-economic conditions. In this complex scenario, the gender approach has not received... more

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Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia

The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) (2016) C1

Ethiopia has seen high economic growth over the last decade, but remains a poor country with a high burden of disease. It has made considerable health gains in recent years, mainly by having health policies that focus on extending primary healthcare, using health extension workers. It... more

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Guidelines for Maternity Care in South Africa - fourth edition 2016

Maternal Health Committee of the National Department of Health (NDoH) South Africa NDoH South Africa (2016) CC

These guidelines have been prepared by the Sub directorate: Maternal Health for the guidance of health workers (doctors and midwives) providing obstetric, surgical and anaesthetic services for pregnant women in district clinics, health centres and district hospitals. These guidelines are intended fo... more

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Guidelines for Maternity Care in South Africa

Dept. of Health, Republic of South Africa (2015)

4th edition. A manual for clinics, community health centers and district hospitals

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Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for South Africa. Hospital Level: Paediatrics

Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2017) C1

Fourth Edition

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South Africa: National Emergency Care Education and Training Policy

National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2017) C2

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STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF OBESITY IN SOUTH AFRICA 2015–2020

Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2016) C1

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Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance and Consumption of Antibiotics in South Africa

National Dept. of Health, South Africa (2019) C2

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The Essential Public Health Functions in the Americas: A Renewal for the 21st Century. Conceptual Framework and Description

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

The document is structured into five sections. The first presents the key experiences and challenges that justify a renewal of the EPHFs. The second section updates the groundwork for the exercise of public health and provides a framework to inform the exercise of the new essential functions. The th... more

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Climate Change for Health Professionals: A Pocket Book
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Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

With this quick reference guide, providers can easily recognize diseases and side effects related to climate change, implement appropriate management and provide guidance to exposed populations, provide up-to-date information on the relationship between the adverse effects of certain drugs and the w... more

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National Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria, South Africa 2019

National Department of Health, South Africa (2019) C1

Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategy Framework 2014 –2024 (South Africa) recommended

Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa: A companion publication for Integrating Africa’s forgotten foods for better nutrition recommended

Climate Change for Health Professionals: A Pocket Book recommended

Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategy Framework 2014 –2024 (South Africa)
recommended

Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa: A companion publication for Integrating Africa’s forgotten foods for better nutrition
recommended

Climate Change for Health Professionals: A Pocket Book
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