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Using recency assays for HIV surveillance: 2022 technical guidance

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Recency assays use one or more biomarkers to identify whether HIV infection in a person is recent (usually within a year or less) or longstanding. Recency assays have been used to estimate incidence in representative cross-sectional surveys and in epidemiological studies to better understand the pat ... more

NIGERIA STATE DATA PROFILES: An Accountability Tool for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Nigeria

Save the Children International (2014) C2

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and accounts for nearly one quarter of the continent’s maternal, newborn and child deaths. In the spirit of the global Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Nigerian Saving One Million Lives Initiative, these state data profiles ... more

Report on the Review of the Kenya National Guidelines for Safe Management of Health Care Waste

UNDP (2018) CC

Injection Safety and Safe Disposal of Medical Waste National Communication Strategy and Health Care Waste Management Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). The overall objective of the consultancy was to review and align the three national technical and communication guiding documents on HCWM to th ... more

Global AIDS Response Progress Report Myanmar

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health (2015) C1

Reporting period: January 2014 – December 2014
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in Myanmar is concentrated among men who have sex with men (MSM), people who inject drugs (PWID) and female sex workers (FSW). HIV prevalence in the adult population aged 15 years and older was esti ... more

The Global Financial Crisis Has Led To A Slowdown In Growth Of Funding To Improve Health In Many Developing Countries

Laech-Kemon, K.; Chou P.; Schneider M. et al. Health Affairs (2012) CC

How has funding to developing countries for health improvement changed in the wake of the global financial crisis? The question is vital for policy making, planning, and advocacy purposes in donor and recipient countries alike. We measured the total amount of financial and in-kind assistance that fl ... more

Patient education in the management of coronary heart disease

Anderson, L.; Brown, J.PR.; Clark, A.M. et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2017) CC

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single most common cause of death globally. However, with falling CHD mortality rates, an increasingnumber of people live with CHD and may need support to manage their symptoms and improve prognosis. Cardiac rehabilitation is acomplex multifaceted intervention whi ... more

Limited access to CVD medicines in low-income and middle-income countries: poverty is at the heart of the matter

Agyemang, C.; van den Born, B. The Lancet Global Health (2018) CC

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a substantial threat to many health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they are already overstretched. In the past few decades, deaths from NCDs in LMICs have spiked, whereas numbers in high-income countries have stabilis ... more

“Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go” Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch (2019) C1

Seng Moon’s story is typical of the 37 trafficking survivors interviewed for this report. The most unusual part of her story is that she escaped with her child; many other survivors were forced to leave children behind. All the survivors we interviewed were trafficked from, and managed to retur ... more

Managing Diabetes in Low Income Countries

Smokovski, I. Springer Nature (2021) CC2

It is now evident that we are living in a world of diabetes pandemic—despite the scientifically sound estimates, worldwide diabetes prevalence has been exceeding even the most pessimistic projections from the past. If we go back in history, it was estimated in 2004 that diabetes prevalence in 2030 ... more

Assessing the impact of imperfect immunoassays on HIV prevalence estimates from surveys conducted by the DHS program

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Lawrence Joseph, Patrick Belisle and others (2017) C2

This report investigates the impact of potential misclassification of samples on HIV prevalence estimates for 23 surveys conducted from 2010-2014. In addition to visual inspection of laboratory results, we examined how accounting for potential misclassification of HIV status through Bayesian latent ... more

Drogues et VIH - Burkina Faso

REVS PLUS (Responsabilité Espoir Vie Solidarité) (2018) C2

Depuis la déclaration des premiers cas de sida au Burkina Faso, les programmes nationaux successifs de lutte contre l’épidémie ont totalement occulté les enjeux sanitaires liés à la consommation de produits psychoactifs. Ainsi, ce n’est qu’en 2010 que les usagers-ères de drogues ont ét ... more

Principles of Solidarity

Archdiocese of Cincinnati (2011) C1

Gustavo Gutierrez and the preferential option for the poor

Dear J. National Catholic Reporter (2011) C1

Improving Governance for Health District Development in Cameroon

Mba R.M.; P. Ongolo-Zogo Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health (CDBPH) (2011) C_WHO

Le Cadre Juridique de la Télémédecine au Cameroun

Christie, T. (2011) C1

Adolescent HIV Care and Treatment: A Training Curriculum for Health Workers . Module 5 Presentation Manual

ICAP; CDC; University Teaching Hospital, et al. (2011)

Panduan Perencanaan Kontijensi Menghadapi Bencana (Edisi Kedua)

Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (2011) C1

Guidelines of Contingency Planning for Disaster Management in Indonesia

Adolescent HIV Care and Treatment: A Training Curriculum for Health Workers . Module 7 Presentation Manual

ICAP; CDC; University Teaching Hospital, et al. (2011)

Do’s and Don’ts for mOPV1 and mOPV3 Distribution Regional Stores

Polio Global Eradication Intiative (2011)

Practical hints are provided for mOPV1 storage and handling at regional stores

Nepal: National Training Manual on the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Trainer's Manual

National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) (2011) C1