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Preparedness: saves time, money and lives

Inter-Agency Standing Committee; World Food Programme (2011) C2

This document addresses preparedness as an important investment against natural and man-made disasters. Through good practices, it urges the humanitarian community, governments and regional bodies to use preparedness thinking to be aware of risks, to reduce them and to plan ahead to combat them in o... more

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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and the Impact of Smokefree Policies

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

The Public Health Burden of Secondhand Exposure to Commercial Tobacco Smoke Secondhand smoke, the combination of smoke from burning commercial tobacco* products and the smoke breathed out by a person who is smoking, is deadly.

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What Is Advocacy? What is Activism?

Dr. P. Zeitz Global AIDS Alliance; The Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS (2008) C2

16 January 2008 Global Health Advocacy and Activism Department of Global Health, George Washington University

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Challenges of DHS and MIS to capture the entire pattern of malaria parasite risk and intervention effects in countries with different ecological zones: the case of Cameroon

Massoda Tonye, S.G. ; C. Kouambeng, R. Wounang et. al. Malaria Journal (2018) C1

Massoda Tonye et al. Malar J (2018) 17:156 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2284-7 Background: In 2011, the demographic and health survey (DHS) in Cameroon was combined with the multiple indicator cluster survey. Malaria parasitological data were collected, but the survey period did not overl... more

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Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review

García, J.M.; Caparrós-Martínez J.L., Rueda-López N., et al. (2021) CC

Globalization and Health (2021) 17:74 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00722-3

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Social Mobilization Programme on Ebola

Caritas Internationalis (2014)

WORKSHOP ON INTERVENTIONS FOR EBOLA PREVENTION FOR PARISH PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS, PPC CHAIRPERSONS AND LEADERS OF DIOCESAN ORGANIZATIONS at Diocesan Pastoral and Social Center August 19-20th and 22nd-23th 2014, Caritas Sierra Leone

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OCHA Policy Brief on Gendered Drivers, Risks and Impacts of Food Insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

It is widely understood that the food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing and most neglected crises. It lacks sufficient global focus, resources and urgency. As in so many crises, women and girls are disproportionately affected and shoulder t...he consequences of protracted neglect, with unconscionable impacts on their safety, life chances and agency. Gaining a holistic view of the gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is difficult. This is due to a lack of data and prioritization, and the large geographical and socioeconomic terrain covered by both regions. However, what we do know about this crisis is more than enough to urgently address the needs of women and girls. An OCHA discussion paper on this topic (which will be published imminently, and from which this policy brief is drawn) found that there is: A strong risk of profound regression in gender equality gains made to date in the countries of concern, including on education, sexual and reproductive health, and the economic independence of women and girls (with knock-on effects on broader humanitarian and development outcomes). An increasing challenge to reverse what must be recognized as a protracted and growing gender-based violence (GBV) emergency in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is protracted, multidimensional and highly gendered, with spiralling impacts on gender equality and food security outcomes. It is driven by interwoven and overlapping factors, including climate change, political instability, conflict, socioeconomic conditions, migration and displacement and, more recently, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Interlinked with these factors are gendered structural drivers of food insecurity, including deeply entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Gendered risks and impacts of food insecurity include alarming limitations on access to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, women’s agency and participation, and dramatic increases in different existing forms of GBV and the emergence of new ones. Recognition of such gendered dimensions of food insecurity and of the need for a multisectoral approach in the response is key to addressing the crisis, along-side sustained commitment and adequate allocation of resources. This policy brief draws out key findings from the OCHA discussion paper on this topic, which includes a desk review of studies, assessments and reports, and interviews with local women’s organizations on the front lines of the food insecurity crisis in communities across both regions. Below are the most pressing gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity (not in order of priority), as well as key gaps in the current humanitarian response to food insecurity, and recommendations to take forward. more

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Training of Trainers: Peer Education Program for Inmates and Staff to Reduce Tuberculosis and HIV Risk in Tanzania Prisons

USAID; PEPFAR; AIDSFree; et al. (2016) C1

The SPPCHS project worked with the Ministry of Home Affairs to design a peer education program for prisons to provide knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in prisons. AIDSFree held two training of trainers (TOT) in Dodoma to train 55 prison officers from 2... more

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Financing the SDGs: Evidence in Four Countries

Jennifer Turner AidData at William & Mary (2019) CC

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require the international community to mobilize significant additional financing over the next decade. Tracking and analyzing this funding is central to measuring progress and making more informed choices to direct financial flows where they wi... more

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The impact of COVID-19 on indigenous peoples in Latin America (Abya Yala): between invisibility and collective resistance

United Nations publication (2021) C2

The health and socioeconomic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the countries of Latin America hard and laid bare the profound inequities about which numerous international, regional and national reports have sounded warnings in recent decades. In this context, the historical politica... more

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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 European Economic Area (EEA) and the Republic of Moldova.

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Vector and Pest Control

B. Wisner, and J. Adams WHO (2002) C_WHO

Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters Chapter 10

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World Drug Report 2019 Booklet 1 Executive summary / Policy implications

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODOC (2022) C1

The World Drug Report 2022 is aimed not only at fostering greater international cooperation to counter the impact of the world drug problem on health, governance and security, but also, with its special insights, at assisting Member States in anticipating and address-ing threats from drug markets an... more

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Coverage at a crossroads: New directions for vitamin A supplementation programmes

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2018)

In where under-five mortality is high and vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem, two high-dose supplements of vitamin A per year, spaced four to six months apart, can strengthen children’s immune systems and improve their chances of survival.
During much of early childhood – from... more

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Schistosomiasis Module Diploma

The Carter Center (2005) CC

Diploma Program For the Ethiopian Health Center Team

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Development of the first edition of African treatment guidelines for common bacterial infections and syndromes

Craig, J.; I. Frost; A. Sriram; et al. (2022) C1

ournal of Public Health in Africa 2021; volume 12:2009

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Kenya: Multi-Sectorial Cholera Elimination Plan

Global Task Force On Cholera Control (GTFCC) (2022) CC

Cholera remains an issue of major public health importance in Kenya. Kenya has in recent years experienced outbreaks affecting different parts of the country

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Whole of Syria Cholera Outbreak Situation Report no.2 Issued 08 October 2022

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2022) C1

The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Syria officially declared a cholera outbreak on 10 September 2022, with the majority of cases reported from Aleppo, Deir-ez-Zor and Al-Hasakeh governorates. Since the situation report issued on 26 September 2022, the number of confirmed and suspected cases continues t... more

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Social and Behavior Change Communication for Emergency Preparedness Implementation Kit

Amrita Gill-Bailey, Kathryn Bertram, Uttara Bharath et al. Johns Hopkins University and US Agency for International Development (USAID) (2017) C1

Each unit builds on the one prior, and they all combine to provide key information for developing an SBCC strategy. It is not essential, however, to work through the I-Kit from start to finish. Users can choose to focus on specific aspects for which they need support in their emergency communication... more

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Beating the DRUM in Lower-Income Countries: Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for SDG3

The Governments of Burkina Faso and Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank Group Global Financing Facility (GFF) (2018) CC

This paper has been prepared to inform discussion at the conference “Beating the DRUM - Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for accelerating progress towards SDG3,”. Many countries face critical shortfalls in domestic resource use and mobilization (DRUM) for health, threatening to push health... more

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