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Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

During the 17 years since Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis was first published, there has been heightened awareness of the physical, economic and emotional burden of the genitourinary manifestations of filariasis. With the impetus to provide better guidanc... more

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Improving the Quality of PrEP Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: An implementation brief to support programming in Eastern and Southern Africa

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain disproportionately affected by HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), with 26 per cent of new infections attributed to this population. AGYW face many personal, social and structural barriers to access, uptake and use of traditional HIV prevention me... more

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Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

These consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services (HTS) bring together existing and new guidance on HTS across different settings and populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) first released consolidated guidelines on HTS in 2015, in response to requests from Member States, national pr... more

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Improving the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents: guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; World Health Organization WHO (2024) CC

To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities for early learning and education, responsive relationships and connectedness, and opportunities for personal autonomy and self-realization. To prom... more

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Infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity to prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a systematic review

Durão, S.; Burns, J.; Schmidt, B. et al. BMC Public Health (2023) CC

Background Noncommunicable diseases are major contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Modifying the risk factors for these conditions, such as physical inactivity, is thus essential. Addressing the context or circumstances in which physical activity occurs may promote physical activity a...t a population level. We assessed the effects of infrastructure, policy or regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase and clinicaltrials.gov to identify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before-after (CBAs) studies, and interrupted time series (ITS) studies assessing population-level infrastructure or policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity. We were interested in the effects of these interventions on physical activity, body weight and related measures, blood pressure, and CVD and type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality, and on other secondary outcomes. Screening and data extraction was done in duplicate, with risk of bias was using an adapted Cochrane risk of bias tool. Due to high levels of heterogeneity, we synthesised the evidence based on effect direction. Results We included 33 studies, mostly conducted in high-income countries. Of these, 13 assessed infrastructure changes to green or other spaces to promote physical activity and 18 infrastructure changes to promote active transport. The effects of identified interventions on physical activity, body weight and blood pressure varied across studies (very low certainty evidence); thus, we remain very uncertain about the effects of these interventions. Two studies assessed the effects of policy and regulatory interventions; one provided free access to physical activity facilities and showed that it may have beneficial effects on physical activity (low certainty evidence). The other provided free bus travel for youth, with intervention effects varying across studies (very low certainty evidence). Conclusions Evidence from 33 studies assessing infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity showed varying results. The certainty of the evidence was mostly very low, due to study designs included and inconsistent findings between studies. Despite this drawback, the evidence indicates that providing access to physical activity facilities may be beneficial; however this finding is based on only one study. Implementation of these interventions requires full consideration of contextual factors, especially in low resource settings. more

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A Roadmap to combat postpartum haemorrhage between 2023 and 2030

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

WHO today released its first roadmap to tackle postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) – defined as excessive bleeding after childbirth - which affects millions of women annually and is the world’s leading cause of maternal deaths. Despite being preventable and treatable, PPH results in around 70 000 de... more

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Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities: Fundamentals first

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The report identifies major global gaps in WASH services: one third of health care facilities do not have what is needed to clean hands where care is provided; one in four facilities have no water services, and 10% have no sanitation services. This means that 1.8 billion people use facilities that l... more

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Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center Online Courses

Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center (2020) CC

A learning environment representing providers from variably-resourced practice settings, the mission of the Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center is to improve equity in peri-operative healthcare access locally and across the globe through medical education, engaging discussio... more

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Human Factors. Technical Series on Safer Primary Care

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

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Strengthening the Health Workforce for Improved Services

USAID, CapacityPlus & PEPFAR (2015) C2

Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

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Estrutura de vigilância baseada em evento

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2023) CC

A Estrutura de Vigilância Baseada em Eventos deve ser usada por autoridades e agências responsáveis pela vigilância e resposta. Essa estrutura serve como um esboço para orientar as partes interessadas em implementar a vigilância baseada em eventos (EBS) usando uma abordagem multissetorial ... more

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MEDBOX Annual Report 2021

Mauder, S.; and P. Reijer MEDBOX Team (2022) CC

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National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) for the Period: 2013-2014

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria; National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA); UNAIDS (2014) C1

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National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) for the Period: 2011-2012

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria; National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA); UNAIDS (2012) C1

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The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2023: Assessing Data Availability Across Humanitarian Crises

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

In our fourth year of producing The State of Open Humanitarian Data, we can report the highest levels yet for data availability across priority humanitarian operations. These gains can be attributed to the commitment of organizations to sharing and maintaining their data publicly. There was also str... more

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Impacto de la COVID-19 en los recursos humanos para la salud y respuesta de política: el caso del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador y el Perú

Organización Mundial de la Salud & Organización Panamericana de la Salud (2021) C_WHO

síntesis de hallazgos en cinco países de América Latina

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Hand Hygiene and COVID-19
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Geffert, K.; and S. Mauder MEDBOX (2020) CC

MEDBOX Issue Brief No.2. The main route of transmission of the Sars-CoV-2 virus are small respiratory droplets. Therefore, thoroughly cleaning of hands with either alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water is one of the corner stones of basic protective measures against COVID-19 for everyone. A part... more

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Rwanda: MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN (MWMP)

Ministry of Health, Rwanda (2017) C2

Prepared for the Stunting Prevention and Reduction Project - The project Medical Waste Management Plan’s (MWMP) overall objective is to prevent and/or mitigate the negative effects of increased generation of medical waste on human health and the environment. The plan proposes measures to prevent t... more

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MULTI-COUNTRY ASSESSMENT OF NATIONAL CAPACITY TO PROVIDE HEARING CARE

World Health Organization (WHO) (2013) C_WHO

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Nigeria: National Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP) 2010 - 2015

Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria (2010) C1

Hand Hygiene and COVID-19 recommended

Hand Hygiene and COVID-19
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