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Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Children - AIDSinfo

G. K. Siberry; M. J. Abzug; S. Nachman et al. AIDSinfo (2019) C2

Downloaded from https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines on 10/19/2019 Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (This g... more

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
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FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2022) C1

This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the SDG 2 targets is growing wider each year. Ther... more

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Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Kenya: Challenges and Prospects

M.J. Chomba, S.G. Mukuria, P.W. Kariuki, S. Tumuti, B.A. Bunyasi Disability Studies Quarterly (2015) C2

Kenya has great potential for enhancing education for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The fact that it has recognized the need to care for learners with special needs is commendable. In comparison to many African countries, Kenya and Nigeria are ahead in developing programs for special e... more

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SAM2020: An agenda for scaling-up the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition by 2020

Action Against Hunger (2015) C1

The agenda focuses on six critical changes necessary for more children suffering from SAM to access effective treatment. Building on lessons from the last decade, and the experiences of other successful health initiatives, the agenda addresses issues ranging from the creation of a more enabling envi... more

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The Socio-Economic Impacts of Ebola in Liberia

World Bank; Gallup (2014) CC

Results from a High Frequency Cell Phone Survey November 19, 2014 Ebola has substantially impacted all sectors of employment in the Liberian economy, in both affected and non-affected counties, according to the most recent round of mobile phone surveys conducted by the World Bank Group in partnersh... more

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Framework Ebola Virus Disease

Robert-Koch-Institut (2015) CC2

The document is intended to facilitate the detection, evaluation and management of incident EVD cases in Germany. It primarily addresses public health service staff and health care workers in hospitals, outpatient clinics and emergency services in Germany. It is a work in progress, intended to evolv... more

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Retention and mortality outcomes from a community-supported public–private HIV treatment programme in Myanmar

Mburu, Gitau; Aung Zayar Paing; Nwe Ni Myint et al. (2016) CC

Journal of the International AIDS Society 2016, 19:20926
There is a growing interest in the potential contribution the private sector can make towards increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low‐ and middle‐income settings. This article describes a public–private partnership ... more

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Addressing the antibiotic resistance threat– the role of water, sanitation and hygiene

ReAct (2020) C2

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected to rise dramatically if radical actions are not ta... more

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Antibiotic Stewardship - From Principles to Practice / Ebook

British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy BSAC (2019) C2

This book provides significantly expanded content and experience in relation to a broader stewardship context- for example, stewardship in specific populations, different countries as well as the role of different professions in stewardship to political and media engagement. We hope this book has so... more

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Evaluation of Child Friendly Spaces - An inter-agency series of impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies (Research report)

UNICEF (2015) CC

Child friendly spaces (CFS) have become a widely used approach to protect and provide psychosocial support to children in emergencies. However, little evidence documents their outcomes and impacts. There is widespread commitment among humanitarian agencies to strengthen the evidence base of pr... more

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Averting ethnocide: : Indigenous peoples and territorial rights in crisis in the face of COVID-19 in Latin America

Oxfam (2020) CC

There are indigenous communities at high risk in every country of the region. At stake are the lives of 45 million people who belong to more than 800 indigenous peoples. Of these, some 100 are spread across several countries, around 200 maintain voluntary isolation or are in initial contact, and nea... more

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Ökonomie und globale Gesundheit

Kohler, S.; M. Roser, P. Geldsetzer, T. Bärnighausen (2021) CC

In: Bonk M., Ulrichs T (eds). Global Health: Das Konzept der Globalen Gesundheit. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 523–556 Wohlstand, Gesundheit und Gesundheitsausgaben sind eng miteinander verknüpft. Im weltweiten Durchschnitt haben alle drei seit vielen Jahren stetig zugenommen. Im Vergleich hab... more

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Neonatal outcomes of pre-diagnosed COVID-19 positive mothers in Nigeria

B. Ezenwa; Fajolu, I.; Makwe, C.; et al. (2021) CC

COVID-19 infection affects all age groups including newborns, however, literature is scarce on the fetal and neonatal outcomes of babies exposed in-utero, especially in Africa. The objectiveof this study was to document the perinatal outcomes of COVID-19 pregnancies and del... more

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Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care - Review

Laurant M, van der Biezen M, Wijers N et al. Cochrane Library (2018) CC

Current and expected problems such as ageing, increased prevalence of chronic conditions and multi-morbidity, increased emphasison healthy lifestyle and prevention, and substitution for care from hospitals by care provided in the community encourage countries worldwide to develop new models of prima... more

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Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being

Project Drawdown (2022) CC

Project Drawdown (2022) provides evidence of how climate solutions can also be win-win opportunities for meeting development and human well-being needs while boosting prosperity for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report summarizes the co-benefits of five groups of a subs... more

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HIV and cervical cancer infographic

UNAIDS (2022) C_WHO

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection, and two types of HPV (16 and 18) cause nearly 50% of high-grade cervical pre-cancers. HIV and cervical cancer are inextricably linked. Women living with HIV are six times more likely to develop cervical cancer, which is o... more

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Communication in neglected Tropical Diseases' elimination: A scoping review and call for action

Nieto-Sanchez C., Hatley DM, Gijalva MJ., Peeters Grietens K, Bates BR (2022) C2

Although the practice of communication is often called upon when intervening asn involgvingcommunties affected by NTD's, the disciplinary framewokr of healt communication research has been largely absent from NTD strategies. To illustrate how practices conceptualized and developed within the communi... more

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First, Do No Harm - Examining the impact of the IFC’s support to private healthcare in India

Anjela Taneja and Amitabha Sarkar Oxfam International (2023) CC

This report examines the support to private healthcare provision in India by the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Despite supporting private healthcare in the country since 1997, no healthcare results for lending and investments have been disclosed sinc... more

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Time to align: development cooperation for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases

Collins, T.E.; Nugent, R.; Webb, D.; et al. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) (2019) CC2

The article "Time to Align: Development Cooperation for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases" argues for greater international cooperation and investment in addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially in low- and middle-income countries. Traditionally, global health fu... more

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Implications of the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda for the EU/EEA, 2024

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ecdc) (2024) C_CDC

This threat assessment addresses the implications of the ongoing Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Rwanda for the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). MVD is a severe disease in humans and, although uncommon, it has the potential to cause epidemics with significant case fatality. ... more

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
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