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Bearing the brunt: The impact of COVID-19 on older people in low- and middle-income countries – insights from 2020

HelpAge (2021) C1

The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-19 response has disrupted services for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes, communicable diseases such as malaria, and much-needed services for mental health. Combined with ... more

Impact of COVID-19 Movement Restrictions on Migrants along the Eastern Corridor, Report 10 | as of 31 December 2020

International Organization for Migration IOM (2021) CC

The COVID-19 outbreak has restricted global mobility, whilst heightening the risk of exploitation of vulnerable populations. This report provides a snapshot of the COVID-19 epidemiological situation and mobility restrictions, and of the current migration trends along the Eastern Corridor migration r ... more

Building capacity to improve respiratory care: the education strategy of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group 2014–2020

McDonnell, J.; Corella de Sousa, J.; Baxter, N.; et al. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (2014) CC2

The article discusses the education strategy of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) for 2014–2020, focusing on building capacity to improve respiratory care globally. It highlights the significant burden of respiratory disease ... more

Estimating the impact of expanded access to antiretroviral therapy on maternal, paternal and double orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, 2009-2020

Aranka Anema1,2*, C. G. Au-Yeung; M. Joffres; et al. BMC Medicine; AIDS Research and Therapy (2011) CC

Anema et al. AIDS Research and Therapy 2011, 8:13 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/8/1/13

Supporting improvement of infection prevention and control programmes at national and facility levels in Ukraine during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: report

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) CC

This report offers a summary of the provided support and recommendations on priority activities for IPC improvement at national and facility levels. The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted areas for improvement in the IPC programme at national and facility levels. Improvements in the IPC programme were ac ... more

Ethiopia Country Refugee Response Plan: The integrated response plan for refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia (January 2019 - December 2020)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2019) C1

he refugee flow to Ethiopia continued during 2018, with 36,1351 persons seeking safety and protection within the country’s borders. At the start of 2019, the nation hosted 905,8312 thousand refugees who were forced to flee their homes as a result of insecurity, political instability, military cons ... more

Compendium of good practices in the implementation of the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region 2016-2020

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2019) C_WHO

Water sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases: A global strategy 2015-2020

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are critical in the prevention and care for all of the 17 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) scheduled for intensified control or elimination by 2020.
Provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene is one o ... more

Regional Framework for Action on Implementation of the End TB Strategy in the Western Pacific, 2016–2020

World Health Organization, Western Pacific (2016) C_WHO

Efeitos da COVID-19 em pessoas com tuberculose existente ou anterior — com base na informação disponível a 9 de Dezembro de 2020

Escritório Regional da OMS para a África (2021) C_WHO

Série de documentos de informação sintéticos do Escritório Regional da OMS para a África sobre a COVID-19 :10.ª série: a COVID-19 e tuberculose

Mobilizing the Resources Required for Universal Health Coverage: Outline of a Global Compact towards Closing the Financing Gap by 2020

Joachim Rüppel medmissio and Action against AIDS Germany (2016) CC

Securing a minimum of financial resources permitting to bring the full range of critical health services to all people constitutes a fundamental human right and an indispensable condition for human dignity. The model outlined here demonstrates that it is within our reach to close the financing gap e ... more

Strategic and action plan for the prevention and control of non communicable diseases in Tanzania 2016-2020
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Tanzania Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children. (2016) CC

Plan national de gestion de la résistance des vecteurs du paludisme aux insecticides au Sénégal 2017-2020

Mr Moussa Balade, Dr Ibrahima Dia, Dr Mawlouth Diallo et. al. Programme national de lutte contre le paludisme - Sénégal, Ministère de la santé et de l'actoin sociale (2018) C2

Au Sénégal, la LAV repose principalement sur deux interventions majeures: la promotion de l’utilisation des Moustiquaires Imprégnées d’Insecticide à longue durée d’Action (MILDA) et l’Aspersion Intra Domiciliaire d’insecticide à effet rémanent (AID). Même si ces deux interventions ... more

European Region Consultation on the implementation and achievements of the WHO European Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol 2012–2020

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2019) C_WHO

Additional aims of the consultations included discussing achievements, identifying obstacles for implementation, and outlining the way forward. Areas with the lowest policy implementation were linked to pricing policies, marketing, availability of alcoholic beverages, reducing the negative consequen ... more

SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a Rural and Urban Household Cohort during First and Second Waves of Infections, South Africa, July 2020–March 2021

Kleynhans, J.; et al. (2021) C_CDC

EID Journal , Volume 27, no.12 , Dec. 2021. Early Release Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections may be underestimated because of limited access to testing. We measured SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in South Africa every 2 months during July ... more

Trend of HIV/AIDS for the last 26 years andpredicting achievement of the 90–90-90 HIV prevention targets by 2020 in Ethiopia:a time series analysis

Girum T., Wasie A. and Worku A. (2018) C1

Información de Recursos Humanos en el Sector Salud en el Marco de la Pandemia COVID – 19 PERU: 2020

Ministerio de Salud, Peru (2021) CC

La Dirección General de Personal de la Salud del Ministerio de Salud, presenta la revista “Información de Recursos Humanos en el Sector Salud en el Marco de la Pandemia COVID-19, Perú 2020”, trigésima publicación de esta importante serie de ... more

L'eau, l'assainissement et l'hygiène pour accélérer et pérenniser les progrès dans la lutte contre les maladies tropicales négligées: Stratégie mondiale 2015-2020

Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) (2016) C_WHO

L'eau potable et les services d'assainissement et d'hygiène (WASH) sont essentiels à la prévention des 17 maladies tropicales négligées (MTN) pour lesquelles une intensification de la lutte ou l'élimination sont prévues à l'horizon 2020.
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Maintaining essential health services during COVID-19: Select stories of resilience and innovations from 11 states (‎April-July 2020)‎

World Health Organization WHO India WHO (2021) C_WHO

Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21

OVID-19 Excess Mortality Collaborators (2022) CC

Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aims to estimate excess mortality from ... more