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Information Needs Assessment Cox's Bazar Bangladesh

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, R. Copeland, Z. Mamood, et al. Internews (2017) C1

Making the Invisible Visible. An evidence-based analysis of gender in the regional response to the war in Ukraine.

Regional Gender Task Force CARE Evaluations (2022) C2

The escalation of the war in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, causing thousands of civilian casualties; destroying civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, and triggering the fastest- growing displacement crisis in Europe since World War II. The demographic profile of Ukraine, combined wit ... more

West & Central Africa HIV catch-up - WHO in an era of transformation

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Transformation Agenda (TA) ushered in an ambitious reform process intended to transform the World Health Organization (WHO) into an organization that is proactive, results-driven, accountable and which meets stakeholder expectations, towards transforming and improving public health services in t ... he African Region. It aimed to achieve a WHO that is pro-results, which optimally and creatively targets technical work as well as make operations more responsive, with greater effectiveness in both communications and partnerships. The Africa Region has been the epicentre of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and it’s one of the leading causes of disease and death on the continent. The WHO, with partners, has worked tirelessly for many years to control the threat and reduce the negative impact of the disease. Since the early 2000s, significant progress has been made in the global fight against the scourge of HIV. However, the WCA subregion was falling concerningly behind ESA on several key indicators of progress. In 2016, the WHO joined UNAIDS, UNICEF and other partners in a call for a strong and urgent response to support WCA countries to develop catch-up plans to triple and fast-track ART coverage, to enable the region to catch up with ESA by the end of 2020. Implementation of a widespread test-and-treat strategy, coupled with the scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD) and mobilization of requisite funding, accelerated WCA’s progress towards this goal. The HIV treatment catch-up and fast-track plan has achieved its target of seeing the West and Central African region (WCA) catch up with the Eastern and Southern African region’s (ESA) antiretroviral coverage rate of 78% in 2021, albeit later than the 2020 target time frame. A 33% improvement was achieved in WCA, against 21% in ESA, between 2015–2020. WCA achieved a significant 42% increase, compared to ESA’s 23%, between 2015 and 2021, to see WCA draw level with ESA at 78%. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, progress of up to 47% was observed between 2015 and 2020, for example. In addition, 1.6 million more People Living with HIV (PLHIV) were enrolled on antiretroviral treatment (ART) between 2015 and 2020. more

PAHO’s Health Emergency Appeal 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This document outlines PAHO’s regional priorities for the year 2023 to sustain and scale up health emergency and humanitarian assistance in the Americas, with a focus on five priority countries currently facing a prolonged humanitarian crisis and recovering from recent acute emergencies: Colombia, ... more

Country cooperation strategy for WHO and Syrian Arab Republic: 2022-2025

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) defines the Organization’s medium-term vision for working in and with a particular country. The CCS, developed in the context of global and national health priorities, examines the overall health situation in a country, including the state of the health s ... more

Kenya National Violence and Injury Prevention and Control Action Plan 2018 – 2022

Violence and Injury Prevention Unit- Ministry o Health, Kenya (2018) C1

HIV and Adolescents: Guidance for HIV testing and counseling and care for adolescents living with HIV

World Health Organization; Unicef; UNAIDS; et al. (2013) C_WHO

Recommendations for a Public Health approach and considerations for policy-makers and managers

Coordinated public health surveillance between points of entry and national health surveillance systems

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

Advising principles. The purpose of this document is to support competent authorities in charge of IHR implementation to improve national capacities for the prevention, detection and control of events, by strengthening communications and coordination between points of entry and the national health s ... more

Mainstreaming and Partnerships - A Multi-sectoral approach to strengthen HIV/AIDS response in India

National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2013) C1

FAO South Sudan Emergency Livelihood Response Programme January 2014 ‐ December 2015

Food and Agriculture Organization (2014)

South Africa’s protracted struggle for equal distribution and equitable access – still not there

Hendrik CJ van Rensburg (2014) CC

Ebola- local beliefs and behaviour change

Grant, C. HEART (2014)

What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola i ... more

Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under five (Review)

Tarun Gera, Dheeraj Shah, Paul Garner et al. (2016) C2

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Jul 1; (6): 1–61 -Published online 2016 July 1

Intimate Partner Violence and Empowerment among Women in Tanzania: Prevalence and Effects on Utilization of Reproductive and Maternal Health Services.

Msuya, Sia E., Juma Adinan, and Neema Mosha ICF International (2014) C2

DHS Working Papers No. 106

How to use the ICF: A practical manual for using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

World Health Organization (WHO) (2013) C_WHO

Exposure draft for comment October 2013

Risk Communication and Community Engagement for Zika Virus Prevention and Control

UNICEF; World Health Organization; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2016) C_WHO

A Guidance and Resource Package for Country Offices for Coordination, Planning, Key Messages and Actions

WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The practical guidance in the operational handbook aims to inform the development or revision of national policies and related implementation guidance on the management of TB in children and adolescents under programmatic circumstances and at different levels of the health system. The operational ha ... more

Standard precautions for the prevention and control of infections: aide-memoire
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Standard precautions aim to protect both health workers and patients by reducing the risk of transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognized sources. They are the minimum standard of infection prevention and control practices that should be used by all health-care workers, durin ... more

Community-based psychosocial support - Facilitator Manual

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2023) CC

The PS Centre has released three publications addressing the need for MHPSS tools and guidance in Ukraine and surrounding countries. The Introduction to Psychological First Aid, presents a training module on basic psychological first aid skills for people affected by the international armed confl ... more