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The impact of COVID-19 o development assistance

Brown S. Sage Journals (2021) CC

This article analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aid. Using examples from Canadian foreign aid, it argues that, despite the terrible toll it is exacting, the crisis has accelerated some significant positive pre-existing trends, both by destabilizing the perception of aid as flowi... more

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Venezuela's Health Emergency Appeal 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been facing a prolonged socio-political and economic situation that has profoundly and negatively impacted social and health indicators. The COVID-19 pandemic further aggravated the humanitarian context in the country, which stretched the limits of an alread... more

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Посттравматичний стресовий розлад як новий виклик сучасній україні

О. Л. Корольчук (2016) C1

Важкі умови життєдіяльності громадян, обтяжені веденням антитерористичної операції на Сході країни, призводять сьогодні до зростання кількості стресових та, нав�... more

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Urbanization, migration & health

Ross, A. World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

An overview on the health equity impact of policy and action: Is it making a difference? Why or why not?

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Describing nearly two decades of Chagas disease in Germany and the lessons learned: a retrospective study on screening, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi infection from 2000 – 2

Guggenbühl Noller, J.M., Froeschl, G., Eisermann, P. et al. BMC Infectious Diseases (2020) CC

The highly complex and largely neglected Chagas disease (CD) has become a global health problem due to population movements between Latin America and non-endemic countries, as well as non-vectorial transmission routes. Data on CD testing and treatment from routine patient care in Germany of almost t... more

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Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration: Training Guide

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR (20023) CC

This training guide is designed to enable participants to understand the human rights perspective on migration, and how human rights laws and standards can be operationalized to make migration safer and an empowering experience for all. It provides an introduction to related principles and issues an... more

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Joint Statement on reducing maternal morbidity and mortality

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) CC

Over the past decade, the reduction of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean has shown signs of a marked slowdown and in some cases a reversal, jeopardizing commitments made at the global and regional levels and by the Member States themselves, including those established in the Sust... more

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Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Chagas Disease: An Increasing Challenge in Non-Endemic Areas

Suárez, C., Nolder, D., García-Mingo, A. et al. Research and reports in tropical medicine (2022) CC

Chagas disease (CD) is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and it is endemic in Central, South America, Mexico and the South of the United States. It is an important cause of early mortality and morbidity, and it is associated with poverty and stigma. A third of the cases evolve into chronic... more

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Global, Regional, and National Trends of Chagas Disease from 1990 to 2019: Comprehensive Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study

Gómez-Ochoa, S., Rojas, L., Echeverría, L., Global Heart Journal (2022) CC

Chagas disease (CD) is a neglected tropical disease, endemic in Latin America, but due to migration and environmental changes it has become a global public health issue.

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Schistosomiasis: Still a Cause of Significant Morbidity and Mortality

Verjeen, M. National Library of Medicine (2019) CC

Theodor Bilharz, a German professor of anatomy and chief of surgery at the Kasr El Ani Hospital of Cairo from 1850, first identified an infective organism, Distomum hematobium in 1851, which was renamed Schistosoma haematobium in 1858. It arose from a cestode worm, Hymenoleptis nana, lying in the sm... more

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Resources to Support Marginalized Caregivers of Children with Disabilities: Guidelines for Implementation

UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

These guidelines have been compiled for education ministries or other educational leaders (including development partners, non-governmental or private organizations working with schools or directly with caregivers) who want to adapt and adopt resources to support the marginalized caregivers of child... more

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Protect the promise: 2022 progress report on the every woman every child global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030)

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

This global progress report attempts to lay the groundwork for the kind of accelerated action needed. Section 1 presents key data, trends and developments in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being. That is followed in Section 2 by a deeper dive into the impact of the COVID-... more

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Forced displacement from and within Ukraine

European Union; International Organization for Migration; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2022) C2

Joint EUAA, IOM and OECD report provides new insights on displacement from and within Ukraine The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have published a Joint Report on profil... more

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Global Health Watch

Global Health Watch Zedbooks (2009) CC

The power relations around global decisions which shape population health can be changed through new alliances and information flows. The Democratising Global Health Governance Initiative, of which WHO Watch is a project, is designed to contribute to improved population health (and health equity) th... more

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Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries

Waage, J.; D. Grace; E.M. Févre; et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2022) CC

Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68 The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimension of the complex relationship between agriculture... more

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The sociodemographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

United Nations ECLAC (2022) C1

Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by a matrix of social inequality whose axes —such as socioeconomic stratum, gender, stage in the life cycle, ethnicity and race, territory, disability, and immigration status— create multiple, often concurrent, situations of exclusion and discri... more

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Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Change

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) CC

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Georgetown University, and the United Nations University have today launched new guidelines to provide the first-ever global policy framework that will help protect, include, and empower children on the ... more

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Humanitarian Action for Children 2022 Revision 1 (May 2022) - Children on the move, including Venezuelans and communities affected by COVID-19

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

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Integration of mental health and HIV interventions

World Health Organization WHO, UNICEF (2022) C_WHO

This joint publication by UNAIDS and WHO emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care and mental health services for people living with HIV. It provides a compilation of tools, best practices, recommendations and guidelines that facilitate the integration of i... more

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The prevention and elimination of disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

very woman has the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to dignified, respectful health care. Many women experience disrespectful and abusive treatment during childbirth in facilities worldwide. Such treatment not only violates the rights of women to respectf... more