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HEART (Health & Education Advice and Resource Team (2013) C1

Disability-inclusive social protection research in Nepal

Banks, Lena M., Walsham, Matthew and others International Centre for Evidence in Disability (2018) C1

A national overview with a case study from Tanahun district. The overall aims of this study are (1) to assess the extent to which social protection systems in Nepal address the needs of people with disabilities; and (2) to identify and document elements of good practice, as well as challenges, in th... more

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Optimal timing of HIV home‐based counselling and testing rounds in Western Kenya

Olney, Jack J.; Eaton, Jeffrey W.; Braitstein, Paula et al. (2018) CC

Journal of the International AIDS Society, vol. 21 Issue no. 6 e 25142
Weaknesses in care programmes providing anti‐retroviral therapy (ART) persist and are often instigated by late HIV diagnosis and poor linkage to care. We investigated the potential for a home‐based counselling and testin... more

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Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Western Pacific (2009) C_WHO

Traditional medicine, including the knowledge, skills and practices of holistic health care, exists in all cultures. It is based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences and is widely accepted for its role in health maintenance and the treatment of disease.Medicinal plants are the main ingred... more

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Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox

Peter G. Smith, Richard H. Morrow, and David A. Ross (2015)

This version of Field Trials of Health Interventions includes seven new chapters on conducting systematic literature reviews, trial governance, preliminary studies and pilot testing, budgeting and accounting, intervention costing and economic analysis, and Phase IV studies. Before new interventions... more

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Ebola research and development landscape of clinical candidates and trials

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

The report presents current information (updated to September 2015) on candidate vaccines, therapies and medical devices for Ebola and gives an overview of completed and on-going trials.