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Current Developments in Malaria Vaccination: A Concise Review on Implementation, Challenges, and Future Directions

Sallam, M.; A.O.Al-Kathib, K.S.Al-Mazhoum, et al. Dove Press (2025) CC

Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications, 2025:17 29–47

Malaria Progress Report 2024

African Union, ALMA, and RMB Partnership to End Malaria (2024) CC2

According to the WHO, there were an estimated 251 million malaria cases (95% of global cases) and 579,414 malaria deaths (97% of global deaths) in African Union Member States in 2023. 76% of these deaths were children under the age of five.

Suivi des interventions CCSC sur le paludisme

Breakthrough Action (2025) CC

Evidence-based Malaria BCC Module 4 e-learning series. Accessed July 2025

A journey towards Health in All Policies in Tanzania

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Health in All Policies (HiAP) promotes health and equity. It is based on the recognition that our greatest health challenges for example, non-communicable diseases, health inequities and inequalities, climate change, and spiraling health care costs are highly complex and often linked through the soc ... more

Guidelines for using the APCA African Children’s Palliative Outcome Scale

African Palliative Care Association APCA (2012) C2

In the absence of a such a measure, and building on the success of developing the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale (POS) for adults, the African Palliative Care Association has developed the APCA African Children’s POS. The tool has been validated across diseases, countries, settings and ... more

2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre IDMC (2025) CC

IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the authoritative source for data and analysis on the state of internal displacement for the previous year.

Zoonotic Disease: Prevention and Control Strategy 2025-2029
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Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2025) CC

Public health challenges over the past decade have highlighted the importance of approaching health through a holistic lens of human, animal, and environmental sectors, recognizing the need for a collaborative response against shared threats. Zoonotic diseases, transmitted between humans and animals ... more

Toolkit for Ensuring Rights-Based and Ethical Use of Digital Technologies in HIV and Health Programmes

UN Development Programme UNDP (2025) CC

This Toolkit for ensuring rights-based and ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes is derived from the comprehensive UNDP Guidance on the rights-based and ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes document. The foundational UNDP Guidance document outli ... more

Tackling HIV/AIDS through social and behavior change communication

FHI 360 (2012) C2

Reducing the spread of HIV and improving care and treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS requires addressing social factors and behaviors that put people at risk. Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) goes beneath the surface to uncover the causes of behaviors, the social structures ... more

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

Examining differentials in HIV transmission risk behaviour and its associated factors among men in Southern African countries

Phiri M.,M. Lemba, C. Chomba, et al. Palgrave (2022) C2

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS | (2022)9:295 | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01312-3 . Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly Southern and East Africa, has the highest AIDS deaths and HIV-infected people in the world. Even though considerable effort has been made over the yea ... more

Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline for mental, neurological and substance use disorders: executive summary

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

This guideline includes 48 updated and new evidence-based recommendations related to MNS conditions. The guideline is targeted towards non-specialized health workers at primary- or secondary-level healthcare facilities, or those working at the district level including basic inpatient and outpatient ... more

Financing Global Health 2018: Countries and Programs in Transition

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2019) C2

This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic spending on health, health spending on two key infectious diseases – malaria and HIV/AIDS – and fut ... more

Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers
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Snider, L.; Van Ommeren, M.; Schafer, A. World Health Organization (WHO) (2011) C_WHO

When terrible things happen in our communities, countries and the world, we want to reach out a helping hand to those who are affected. This guide covers psychological first aid which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events. It is writt ... more

The Sphere Handbook. Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. New Edition
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Sphere (2018) C1

Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. The 2018 Sphere Handbook builds on the latest developments and learning in the humanitarian sector. Among the improvements of the new edition, readers will find a stronger focus on the role of local authorities and communities as ... more

Rapport de Suivi de la Déclaration de Politique du Bénin

Conseil Nationale de Lutte Contre le SIDA (CNLS) UNAIDS (2017) C2

Rapport de Suivi de la Déclaration de Politique du Bénin À l’instar des autres pays de la sous-région, le Bénin est un pays à épidémie mixte. Depuis 2006, la prévalence du VIH s’est stabilisée à 1,2% dans la population générale. Malgré cette tendance à la stabilisation, il exi ... more

Innovations for Urban Sanitation

Myers, J.; D.Cavil, S. Musyoki, et al. Practical Action Publishing (2018) CC

Adapting community-led approaches . Three out of 10 people in urban areas do not use improved sanitation facilities, and one out of 10 people are forced to practise open defecation. Still higher proportions do not have access to safely managed sanitation facilities, where the fecal sludge is contai ... more

Annuaire des statistiques sanitaires du Togo, Année 2016

République togolaise, Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection Sociale (2017) C1

L’un des principaux défis auxquels fait face le secteur de la santé au Togo est la mise à la disposition des décideurs, des partenaires et du public des données fiables, pertinentes et à temps opportun. Le présent annuaire des statistiques sanitaires a pour objectif, de contribuer à releve ... more