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Hidden Burdens of Conflict

International Alert, Global Initiative on Psychiatry; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, et al. (2017) C1

Some 32% of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the conflict in the east. Among the 2,203 respondents surveyed across Ukraine, the study also found a high prevalence of mental disorders such as depression (22%) and anxiety ... more

Migration & Tuberculosis: A Pressing Issue

International Oranization for Migration (2015) C2

Migration & health position paper series Cross-cutting health themes Tuberculosis, Migration and human mobility

Rethinking communications for governance of malaria programs

Opigo, J.; Guyer A. L. (2023) CC

PLOS Glob Public Health 3(7): e0001132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pgph.0001132 This paper proposes a framework for strategic communications for malaria governance that involves five key elements: knowing the audience, defining the message ... more

Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response
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UNAIDS (2025) C_WHO

Abrupt reductions in international HIV assistance in 2025 have deepened existing funding shortfalls. The OECD estimates that external health assistance is projected to drop by 30–40% in 2025 compared with 2023, causing immediate and even more seve ... more

Inequality is making pandemics more likely, more deadly and more costly
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Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics (2025) C_WHO

Building true health security in a global age. Findings and recommendations of the Global Council. In landmark findings based on two years of research and convenings around the world, the new report shows that high levels of inequality are linked to ... more

Paths to Psychotherapy

Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer (BPtK) (2021) CC

To give you a better idea of when and how psychotherapy can help you, we have written this brochure titled Paths to Psychotherapy. While it is therefore primarily intended for people who have never been treated by a psychotherapist, the brochure can also enable those who have previously had psychoth ... more

Adolescents with HIV

Dr. C. D. Kalombo The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS) (2019) C2

Specific Issues and a Model of Care Accessed; 08.10.2019

Ebola outbreak in rural West Africa: epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes

Silvia Dallatomasina, et al. (2015)

Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Apr; 20(4): 448–454. Open Access

Retrospect, advances and challenges in Chagas disease diagnosis: a comprehensive review

Schijmann, A.G.; J. Alonsa-Padilla, C. Britto, (2024) CC

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2024;36: 100821 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2024.100821

Guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in temporary reception centres in the context of the large numbers of people fleeing Ukraine
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2022) C1

This document offers public health guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in reception centres, and other temporary accommodation facilities, in the context of the mass influx of Ukrainian people into the European Union (EU), the Europe ... more

Child Protection Strategic Shift Think Piece

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

UNICEF Syria’s series of think pieces. Every day counts. An outlook on child protection for the most vulnerable children in Syria.To navigate the complex and continuously changing context and attain sustainable results for children, UNICEF – along with other UN agencies - seeks to make a shift i ... more

The international management development programme

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2016)

Training leaders in public health IMDP 2016 Training Catalogue

Diarrhea and Dehydration Module 6

Yu C, Lougee D, Murno JR American Academy of Pediatrics (2016) C1

Poor sanitary conditions in disaster-stricken areas result in higher risk for diarrheal illness in vulnerable populations, especially children. This disease negatively impacts the nutritional status of affected children and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Early di ... more

Assessing development assistance for child survival between 2000 and 2014: A multisectoral perspective

Lu, C.; A. Chu, Z. Li et al. PLOS One (2017) CC

The majority of Countdown countries did not reach the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 4) on reducing child mortality, despite the fact that donor funding to the health sector has drastically increased. When tracking aid invested in child sur ... more

Key considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 response and recovery

Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (2021) C2

English Analysis on Brazil about Health, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 26 May 2021 by SSHAP

Mortality due to road injuries in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Road Injury Collaborators (2019) CC

Lancet Public Health. 2019 Dec 20. pii: S2468-2667(19)30246-4. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30246-4.

Rapid Assessment Guide for Psychosocial Support and Violence Prevention in Emergencies and Recovery
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IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2015) C3

This guide provides standards and directions on how to carry out rapid needs assessment for Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Violence Prevention (VP) initiatives including child protection and sexual and gender-based violence. In particular, this rapi ... more

Myanmar Actions for Acceleration

Family Planning 2020 (2017) C1

Commitment objective
The Government of Myanmar views family planning as critical to saving lives, protecting mothers and children from death, ill health, disability, and under development. It views access to family planning information, commodi ... more

Financing the Pandemic Cycle: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery and Reconstruction

Fan V. Y., Kim S., Pineda D., et al. Center for Global Development (2024) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical gaps in the global response to health crises, particularly in the financing of pandemic prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and reconstruction. This chapter presents a comprehensive framework for pand ... more

Keeping the 100-year-old promise: making insulin access universal

WHO (2021) C_WHO

High prices, hard-to-access human insulin, few insulin producers, and weak health systems are just some of the barriers that people with diabetes face a century after insulin was discovered, WHO notes in a new report