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LESOTHO HIV Prevention Response and Modes of Transmission Analysis

Lesotho National AIDS Commission, Government of Lesotho UNAIDS | GAMET (2009) C2

This study, and similar studies in Kenya, Mozambique, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zambia is the outcome of close collaborative by a team in Swaziland, with technical and financial support from the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, UNAIDS Geneva, and the World Bank's Global HIV ... more

Support Services for Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease — Sierra Leone, 2014

Seung Hee Lee-Kwan, et al. (2014)

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report December 19, 2014 / 63(50);1205-1206

Asthma management in low and middle income countries: case for change

Mortimer, K.; Reddel, H. K.; Pitrez, P. M.; et al. (2022) CC2

Asthma is the most common noncommunicable disease in children, and among the most common in adults. According to the most recent estimates from the Global Asthma Network Phase I study, around one in 10 children and adults have symptoms of asthma and one in 20 school-aged children have severe asthma ... more

Global Assessment of Schistosomiasis Control Over the Past Century Shows Targeting the Snail Intermediate Host Works Best

Sokolow SH, CL Wood, IJ Jones, (2016) CC

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(7): e0004794. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004794

Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study

Masumbuko ClaudeK, Underschultz J,Hawkes MT (2019) CC

PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104. The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o ... more

Topic Guide: Effective Post-disaster Reconstruction Programmes

Lloyd-Jones, Tony; Davis, Ian; Steele, Andre (2016) CC

Bridging the emergency gap

Monica de Castellarnau and Velina Stoianova Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (2018) C2

Reflections and a call for action after a two-year exploration of emergency response in acute conflicts
There is general consensus that the humanitarian sector is failing to mount timely and adequate responses in the acute phase of conflict-related emergencies, according to the two-year Emergen ... more

Key Elements of Flood Disaster Management

(2014)

Accessed 2014

Twice invisible: Accounting for internally displaced children

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2019) C1

Internally displaced children are twice invisible in global and national data. First, because internally displaced people (IDPs) of all ages are often unaccounted for. Second, because age-disaggregation of any kind of data is limited, and even more so for IDPs. Planning adequate responses to meet ... more

Addressing Security and Human Rights Challenges in Complex Environments Toolkit

International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (2016) CC

3rd Edition

2017 Global Nutrition Report. Nourishing the SDGs

Global Nutrition Report Stakeholder Group (2017)

The 2017 Global Nutrition Report focuses on 5 key areas and finds that improving nutrition can have a powerful multiplier effect across the SDGs. Indeed, it indicates that it will be a challenge to achieve any SDG without addressing nutrition. The report shows that there is an exciting opportunity t ... more

The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision

Gleeson, T.; et al. (2020) CC

One Earth Perspective. Cell Press

Building back better: Lessons learned from the response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami in terms of long - term development, disaster risk reduction and resilience building in Aceh , Indonesi

UNICEF Indonesia (2014)

Global Climate Risk Index 2021

Eckstein, D.; V. Künzel and L.Schäfer Germanwatch e.V. (2015) C2

Who suffers Most from Extreme Weather Events? Weather-related Loss Events in 2019 and 2000 to 2019 The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 analyses and ranks to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of climate related extreme weather events (storms, floods, heatwaves etc.). The ... more

Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) for people with disabilities in Nepal: an overview

Padmani Mendi & Romi Gurung Handicap International (2007) C2

This study examines over 20 years of CBR implementation in Nepal. It includes an overview of CBR interventions, provides analysis of approaches and activities in terms of impact and sustainability and makes recommendations for future developments in CBR. This resource is useful for people interested ... more

Uganda Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016

U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), CDC, USAID, et al. (2016) C_CDC

Removing Barriers: The Path towards Inclusive Access. Jordan Report, July 2018

Australian Agency for International Development, Handicap International - Humanity & Inclusion, iMMAP (2018) C1

22.9% of surveyed Syrian refugees aged 2 years and above had disabilities (1,374 persons out of 6,003 persons): 13.8% in Azraq camp, 23.5% in Irbid and 30.5% in Zaatari camp. Understanding disability as the level of difficulties a person is facing when performing basic activities that could put him/ ... more

Spiritual Care at the End of Life

University of Hull (2010) C1

This s a systematic review of English language literature from 2000 to 2010 covering spiritual care in end of life care settings which includes spiritual assessment tools and ongoing intervention models.

Resilience in a Riskier World: Managing Systemic Risks from Biological and Other Natural Hazards - Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2021) C1

Since the start of the pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters. At the same time, climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts of many of these disasters. The *Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021, *also launched today, shows that the p ... more