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Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

2nd. edition The new edition has been developed to make widely available to programme managers, health care workers in endemic settings, academic researchers, and other key partners, a concise source of information on strategies for MMDP for LF. It is a product of efforts to elaborate and concepts ... more

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Democratic Republic of Congo Urbanization Review

World Bank (2020) C1

Productive and Inclusive Cities for an Emerging Democratic Republic of Congo

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crises - April–December 2020

OCHA; Reliefweb; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020) C2

FAO’s component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan 18.5.2020

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COVID-19 Multi-Sector Response Plan - Papua New Guinea Disaster Management Team

UNCT; PNG; reliefweb (2020) C2

his 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. Additionally, at the time of this version, the Department of Education an... more

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COVID-19: Working with and for young people - May 2020 version 1.0

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC; United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2020) C1

This guidance note is meant to assist humanitarian actors, youth-led organizations, and young people themselves across sectors, working at local, country, regional, and global levels in their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. It begins diagnostically, exploring the impacts of coronavirus d... more

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Health and Socio-Economic Impacts of Physical Distancing for Covid-19 in Africa

Barasa, E.; et al. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and African Academy of Sciences (2020) CC

Physical distancing measures are important to reduce COVID-19 transmission. However, when stringently applied, they can result in negative health and socio-economic impacts. This report draws on a rapid review of available literature, case studies from across Africa and expert knowledge to make reco... more

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Lost at home - The risks and challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them

UNICEF (2020) CC

Today, more children than ever before are displaced within their own countries. Their harrowing stories of displacement are unfolding every day, and with increasing frequency. At the end of 2019, approximately 45.7 million people were internally displaced by conflict and violence (Fig. 1.1). Nearly ... more

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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.

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Ordering Ethics of Catholic Social Teaching

Küppers, A. (2020) C2

In the USA, Catholic Social Teaching is commonly called “the church’s best keptsecret”. And, indeed, did the church’s Social Teaching on the other side of the Atlantic never enjoy the political and societal importance attributed to it in many European countries for such a long time including... more

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Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

Catholic Curriculum Corp. (2020) C1

CCC and OECTA Partnership Teaching Resource Equity and Inclusion: Through the Lens of the Catholic Social Teachings accessed on 16 July 2020

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Situational Brief: Marginalized Migrants in Israel during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Gottlieb N., N. Davidovitch, D. F. Filc et al. Lancet Migration (2020) CC

In Israel, as in other countries, the COVID-19 outbreak highlights existing structural inequities,which compromise the health of some migrant groups. The Israeli case also demonstrate show strong NGOs successfully advocate for the protection of migrants‘health amidst the crisis, madepossible bya c... more

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COVID-19 Impact: The seeds of a future hunger pandemic?

Action against hunger (2020) C1

Previous pandemics have demonstrated that more people could die from the indirect consequences of an outbreak than from the disease itself. As the fight against the pandemic is pushing millions into poverty and hunger, COVID-19 will likely be no different.

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UNHCR MENA COVID-19 Emergency Response Update #11 (5 August 2020)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

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Gender, Health, and Development in the Americas: Basic Indicators 2019

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

This new edition highlights once again the importance of collecting disaggregated data to conduct gender-based analysis in order to determine, address, reduce, and eliminate the causes of gender-related inequalities.

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Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in East and Southern Africa

UN Women, UNFPA (2021) CC

abridged version, March 2021 he study highlights the impacts of COVID-19 on women and men as gleaned from research conducted during 2020, as well as the Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviews (CATI) Rapid Gender Assessments (RGAs) executed by UN Women, UNFPA and partners in seven countries in the ... more

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Direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and response in South Asia

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

It estimates that there have been 228,000 additional deaths of children under five in these six countries [Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka] due to crucial services, ranging from nutrition benefits to immunisation, being halted. It says the number of children being tr... more

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Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries

Haldane, V., De Foo, C., Abdalla, S.M. et al. (2021) C1

Nat Med (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01381-y

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Community health worker models in South Africa: a qualitative study on policy implementation of the 2018/19 revised framework

Murphy, J.P.; A. Moolla, S. Kgowedi et al. Health Policy and Planning (2020) C1

South Africa has a long history of community health workers (CHWs). It has been a journey that has required balancing constrained resources and competing priorities. CHWs form a bridge between communities and healthcare service provision within health facilities and act as the cornerstone of South A... more

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DGE position statement on a more sustainable diet

Renner B.; Arens-Azevêdo U.; Watzel B.; et al. (2021) CC

While “sustainability” has become a central aspect of social action and responsibility around the world, its complex and multi-di- mensional nature requires further explanation.

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Availability, Affordability, Access, and Pricing of Anti-cancer Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Literature

Ocran Mattila, P.; R. Ahmad, S.Shahzad Hasan, et al. (2021) C2

Front. Public Health, 30 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.628744