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Developing the Proxy Consent Protocol in the Philippines

N. E. Mojica Children & Aids; Unifec (2019)

Accessed: 26.10.2019

World Drug Report 2019 Booklet 3 Drug market trends of Cannabis and Opioids

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2022) C2

This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis. The first chapter of the booklet provides an overview of opioids as a group of substances and their patterns of non-medical use at the global level. It also reviews the latest trends in the global supply of opi ... more

Estimating HIV incidence using HIV case surveillance

World Health Organization; UNAIDS (2017) C_WHO

WHO working group on HIV incidence assays meeting report 10–11 December 2015 Glion, Switzerland UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance WHO/HIV/2017.03

Maldives National Action Plan for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2022

Maldives Food and Drug Authority Ministry of Health (2017) C2

Maldives has made significant strides in the area of infectious disease prevention and control. This is exemplified by elimination of malaria from Maldives in 2015 and successes in TB control. In addition, Maldives is a front runner in infectious disease prevention through successful water, sanitati ... more

Q&A: Antibiotic resistance: where does it come from and what can we do about it?

Wright G.D. BMC Biology (2010) C2

Historically, the discovery of the sulfa drugs in the 1930s and the subsequent development of penicillin during World War II ushered in a new era in the treatment of infectious diseases. Infections that were common causes of death and disease in the pre- ... more

Solidarity

Cullinane P.J. (2017) C1

In Catholic Social Teaching, (hereafter CST) the term “solidarity” makes explicit what is implicit in the Gospel sayings about losing ourselves for the sake of others – and in this way finding our true selves. It is about what it means to be fully human: we cannot be our own true selves outsid ... more

The Common Good and the Catholic Church's Social Teaching

Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (2010) C1

A statement by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales 1996

National clinical guideline for stroke

Royal College of Physicians, London (2016) C1

Basic Needs Assessment and Response Analysis Framework & Toolkit

CaLP; Danish Refugee Council DRC, Mercy Corps, et al. (2020) C1

The Basic Needs and Response Analysis Framework and Toolkit (known as the Framework & Toolkit) is part of the ECHO ERC funded project to increase the uptake of multi-purpose cash grants (MPGs) in emergency responses for more efficient and effective humanitarian action. MPGs are a powerful aid modali ... more

Human Rights and access to COVID-19 vaccines

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2021) CC

Health workforce development and retention in Guinea: a policy analysis post-Ebola

van de Pas R., Kolie D., Delamou A., Van Damme W. BMC - Biomed Central (2019) CC

The state of the Guinean health workforce is one of the country’s bottlenecks in advancing health outcomes. The impact of the 2014–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak and resulting international attention has provided a policy window to invest in the workforce and reform the health system. This re ... more

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

The use of rectal artesunate as a pre-referral treatment for severe P. falciparum malaria

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Information note. In 2021, preliminary results of observational studies from the Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) project did not confirm the mortality impact observed in the controlled trial in 2009. Consequently, in January 2022, WHO released an information note on recta ... more

Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2020: Five years into the SDGs

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report – Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000 - 2020 – presents estimates on household access to safely managed drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services over the past five years, and assesses progress toward achieving the s ... more

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A global concern

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2016) C_UNICEF

This brochure draws on data from more than 90 nationally representative surveys making it the most up-to-date compilation of statistics on FGM/C. Available data show that the practice of FGM/C is highly concentrated in a swath of countries from the Atlantic coast to the Horn of Africa, in areas of t ... more

Association between HIV status and depressive symptoms among children and adolescents in the Southern Highlands Zone, Tanzania: A case-control study

A. Lwidiko; S. M. Kibusi; A. Nyundo; et al. PLOS One (2018) CC

PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193145 February 22, 2018 1 / 13

Gender and race: Experiences of health workers in Brazil during COVID-19

Tan, H.-L. and K. Hawkins (2022) C1

Brazil ́s response is taking place in strict compliance with the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005. Brazil created the Emergency Operations Center (COE) and immediately notified WHO when the first case in Brazilian territory was confirmed on February 26.

Trachoma The end in sight

International Coalition for Trachoma Control ICTC (2020) CC

Trachoma is an eye infection that for thousands of years caused many people to go blind across all continents. As the result of development and targeted interventions, trachoma is now limited to an estimated 57 countries, often affecting the poorest populations of the world. Today, more than 2 mill ... more