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Orientacoes sobre a intubacao Orotraqueal em pacientes com COVID-19

Ribeiro de Carvallho, C.R. et al. Patria Amada Brasil (2021) CC

Guidelines on intubation of Orotraqueal in patients with COV-19

Keeping the vector out: housing improvements for vector control and sustainable development

Kraef, C.; Röbbel, N. World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Vector-borne diseases are responsible for 17% of the global burden of communicable diseases and more than 500 000 deaths annually. The ambitious global targets for the control of vector-borne diseases come in the context of the (re-)emergence of diseases, increasing resistances to insecticides and u ... more

Migrantes

FG Consulting Group; C. Daniels; C. Smyth, et al. Stop TB Partnership; UNOPS; END TB (2015) C1

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Diabetes in Mozambique: Prevalence, management and healthcare challenges

Silva-Matos, C et al (2010) C1

This study assesses the prevalence and awareness of diabetes in urban and rural areas of Mozambique and describes its management.

Integrated Family Planning and Immunization Service Delivery at Health Facility and Community Sites in Dowa and Ntchisi Districts of Malawi: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation

Cooper, C. M.; Wille, J.; Shire, S.; et al. (2020) CC2

The Government of Malawi’s Health Sector Strategic Plan II highlights the importance of service integration; however, in practice, this has not been fully realized. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of efforts to systematically implement integrated family planning and immunization services i ... more

Estimated Burden of Fungal Infections in Namibia

Dunaiski, C. M.; Denning, D. W. (2019) CC2

J Fungi (Basel) . 2019 Aug 16;5(3):75. doi: 10.3390/jof5030075 . Namibia is a sub-Saharan country with one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Although care and support services are available that cater for opportunistic infections related to HIV, the main focus is narrow and predominan ... more

How Did Ebola Impact Maternal and Child Health in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

Streifel, C. CSIS Centre for Strategic & International Studies (2015) C1

Challenges in the Management of Bronchial Asthma Among Adults in Nigeria: A Systematic Review

Onyedum, C.C.; Ukwaja, K.N.; Desula, O.O.; Ezeudo, D. (2013) CC2

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized by airway hyper-responsiveness to a variety of stimuli largely of allergic origin with reversible airflow limitation. The major clinical features of asthma are wheezing, shortness of breath, and cough. It is a major cause of impaired quality o ... more

China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa

Odhiambo J.N., Dolan C., Malik A.A., et al. BMJ Global Health (2023) CC

Insufficient funding is hindering the achievement of malaria elimination targets in Africa, despite the pressing need for increased investment in malaria control. While Western donors attribute their inaction to financial constraints, the global health community has limited knowledge of China’s ex ... more

Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis

Haakenstad A., Bintz C., Knight M., et al. Lancet Global Health (2023) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems in 2020, but it is unclear how financial hardship due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health-care costs was affected. We analysed catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, R ... more

Shifting official development assistance during COVID-19: earmarking, donor concentration and loans

Woskie L., Wenham C. BMJ Global Health (2024) CC

In contrast to bilateral aid, aid disbursed from multilateral institutions increased significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, at a time when a coherent and effective multilateral response is needed most, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a shifting landscape of donor agencies that ... more

Navigating the 2024-2025 Replenishment Era: Strategies for the Global Fund's 8th Replenishment

Roll K., Benn C. Aidspan (2024) CC

The most packed schedule of cyclical replenishments in global health multilateral institutions has the potential to also clash with competing interests fuelled by a packed election calendar. But health imperatives are not a winner gets all scenario. The article provides a perspective on what needs t ... more

The nature and contribution of innovative health financing mechanisms in the World Health Organization African region: A scoping review

Nabyonga-Orem J., Christmals C.D., Addai K.F. et al. Journal of Global Health (2023) CC

Achieving financial risk protection for the whole population requires significant financing for health. Health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are plagued with persistent underfunding, and recent reductions in official development assistance have been registered. To create fiscal ... more

Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis

Lu, C.; Schneider, M.T.; Gubbins, P.; Leach-Kemon, K.; Jamison, D.; Murray, C.J.L. (2010) CC

Government spending on health from domestic sources is an important indicator of a government's commitment to the health of its people, and is essential for the sustainability of health programmes. We aimed to systematically analyse all data sources available for government spending on health in dev ... more

Empfehlungen zur Malariaprophylaxe

Rothe, C.; O. Veit, D. Rosenbusch, et al. Georg Thieme Verlag KG (2024) CC2

Flugmedizin · Tropenmedizin · Reisemedizin - FTR 2024; 31(04): 165-206 DOI: 10.1055/a-2351-8414

Parasitic Infections: Extraintestinal Protozoa - Malaria

Marie, C.; and W.A. Petri (2025) C1

MSD Manual Consumer Version

HIV Prevention and Treatment Behavior Change and the Situated Information Motivation Behavioral Skills (sIMB) Model: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Health Worker Intervention in Rakai, Uganda

Pollard R., C. Kennedy, H. Hutton, et al. (2022) C2

AIDS Behav. 2022 Feb;26(2):375-384.doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03391. A community health worker (CHW) model can promote HIV prevention and treatment behaviors, especially in highly mobile populations. In a fishing community in Rakai, Uganda, the Rakai Health Sciences Program implemented a communit ... more

Basics to understand HIV Drug Resistance

Wallis, C. (2023) C1

During ARV drug pressure the HIV-1 RT is able to develop resistance to these drugs by generating mutations