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Community Health Worker Training Curriculum - Facilitator's Guide

Baylor Tingathe Community Outreach Programme Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Malawi (2016) CC

This curriculum was designed to train newly recruited health care workers (HCW) in the basic knowledge and skills needed to improve different HIV services within the health facility including identification, linkage, retention and support. In addition to HIV basics, the training has supplementary un... more

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Cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the twenty-first century: Gaps and priorities going forward

Minja, N.W.; Nakagaayi, D.; Aliku, T. et al. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2022) CC

In 2015, the United Nations set important targets to reduce premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths by 33% by 2030. Africa disproportionately bears the brunt of CVD burden and has one of the highest risks of dying from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. There is currently an epide...miological transition on the continent, where NCDs is projected to outpace communicable diseases within the current decade. Unchecked increases in CVD risk factors have contributed to the growing burden of three major CVDs—hypertension, cardiomyopathies, and atherosclerotic diseasesleading to devastating rates of stroke and heart failure. The highest age standardized disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to hypertensive heart disease (HHD) were recorded in Africa. The contributory causes of heart failure are changing—whilst HHD and cardiomyopathies still dominate, ischemic heart disease is rapidly becoming a significant contributor, whilst rheumatic heart disease (RHD) has shown a gradual decline. In a continent where health systems are traditionally geared toward addressing communicable diseases, several gaps exist to adequately meet the growing demand imposed by CVDs. Among these, high-quality research to inform interventions, underfunded health systems with high out-of-pocket costs, limited accessibility and affordability of essential medicines, CVD preventive services, and skill shortages. Overall, the African continent progress toward a third reduction in premature mortality come 2030 is lagging behind. More can be done in the arena of effective policy implementation for risk factor reduction and CVD prevention, increasing health financing and focusing on strengthening primary health care services for prevention and treatment of CVDs, whilst ensuring availability and affordability of quality medicines. Further, investing in systematic country data collection and research outputs will improve the accuracy of the burden of disease data and inform policy adoption on interventions. This review summarizes the current CVD burden, important gaps in cardiovascular medicine in Africa, and further highlights priority areas where efforts could be intensified in the next decade with potential to improve the current rate of progress toward achieving a 33% reduction in CVD mortality. more

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Symptom-based screening tool for asthma syndrome among young children in Uganda

Nantanda, R.; Siersma, V.; Ndeezi, G. et al. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (2020) CC

Under-diagnosis of asthma in ‘under-fives’ may be alleviated by improved inquiry into disease history. We assessed a questionnaire-based screening tool for asthma among 614 ‘under-fives’ with severe respiratory illness in Uganda. The questionnaire responses were compared to post hoc consensu... more

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Future of Nursing 2020-2030

Wakefield, M.K.; et al. National Academy of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2021) C1

Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. T... more

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Case Study Methodology to Monitor & Evaluate Community Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries

Cohen, A., Eaton, J., Radtke, B., et al. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and CBM (2012) C2

Case Studies Project

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National Strategic Framework for Prevention and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

Food, Medicine and Health care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) (2009) C1

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Fexinidazole and Human African Trypanosomiasis: good news for this important neglected tropical disease

Bayão T.S., Cupertino M.C., Gomes A.P. et al Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (2019) C2

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is an endemic disease in 36 sub-Saharan African countries, typically occurring in underdeveloped areas, where health systems face significant difficulties of diverse natures.

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The achievement of a storytelling about Chagas disease: how to talk about silence; how to visualise the invisible

Mas, F. National Library of Medicine (2022) CC

Two adjectives raise an issue for communicators working on Chagas disease (CD): “invisible and silent”. Two adjectives that can be ascribed to other neglected tropical diseases (NTD), but which are part of the essence of CD. Bringing CD out of its situation of neglect and oblivion is a mission e... more

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Disability and Poverty in Rural Guatemala: Conceptual, Cultural and Social Intersections

Grech, S. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2016) C2

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Overview of Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment

Lancaster, C.L., Teeters, J.B., Gros, D.F., Back, S.E. Journal of Clinical Medicine (2016) CC

Abstract: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic psychological disorder that can develop after exposure to a traumatic event. This review summarizes the literature on the epidemiology, assessment, and treatment of PTSD. We provide a review of the characteristics of PTSD along with associa... more

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Case Formulation in Young People with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and First-Episode Psychosis

Halpin, E., Kugathasan, V., Hulbert, C., Alvarez-Jimenez, M. & Bendall, S Journal of Clinical Medicine (2016) CC

Background: Evidence based treatment interventions for young people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) and trauma histories is lacking. Although case formulation (CF) has been widely regarded in cognitive behavioural therapy manuals as beneficial, there is limited empirical research examining how cl... more

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Building the Evidence Base in Disability Research Summary

International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (2014) C2

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Include us in education! A qualitative research study on barriers and enablers to education for children with disabilities in Nepal

Zuurmond, M., L.M. Banks, P. Aryal, et al. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, Plan International (2014) C1

A 2013 Plan study across 30 countries found that children with disabilities were on average 10 times less likely to go to school than children without disabilities. This report presents the findings of a follow-up second phase to the research with a qualitative study on barriers and enablers to educ... more

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Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy

Tracy Pugh, Julie Netherland, Ruth Finkelstein The New York Academy of Medicine, Drug Policy Alliance (2013) C2

"Some of the problems with our current drug policies stem from the fact that these policies have been largely bifurcated between two different and often contradictory approaches. One treats drug use as a crime that cannot be tolerated and should be punished; the other views addiction as a chronic re... more

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A Textbook of Gynecology for Less-Resourced Locations

Heleen van Beekhuizen and Regine Unkels The Global Library of Women’s Medicine by Sapiens Publishing (2012)

This textbook seeks to support various levels of health personnel in less-resourced locations by providing evidence-based information about low-tech diagnostic and treatment options for common gynecological conditions such as cervical, ovarian and breast cancer, problems in early pregnancy, contrace... more

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Details of the Certificate and Diploma in Mental Health Programme Proposed for 2011/0212 Academic Year

Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone (2011) C2

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Discapacidad y Pobreza en la Guatemala Rural: Intersecciones Conceptuales, Culturales y Sociale

Grech, S London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (2016) C2

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Assessing changes in HIV-related legal and policy environments: Lessons learned from a multi-country evaluation

L. Ferguson; A. Nicholson; I. Henry; et al. PLOS One; US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (PMC); NCBI (2018) CC

PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192765 February 23, 2018

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AIDSinfo Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms

AIDSinfo; National Library of Medicine (NIH); Department of Health & Human Services USA AIDSinfo; National Library of Medicine (NIH); Department of Health & Human Services USA (2018) C2

2018 9th Edition Offering information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research

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Guideline for Adverse Drug Events Monitoring (Pharmacovigilance), Ethiopia

Food, Medicine and Health care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) (2014) C1

3rd edition