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Onchocerciasis, an undiagnosed disease in Mozambique: identifying research opportunities

Noormahomed E, et al. (2016) C1

The objective of this paper is to summarise and critically review the available data about onchocerciasis in Mozambique, in order to report epidemiological and clinical aspects related to the disease and identify gaps in knowledge. The paper is intended to raise awareness of the existence and import ... more

Community health workers to improve uptake of maternal healthcare services: A clusterrandomized pragmatic trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Geldsetzer, P.; Mboggo, E.; Larson, E.; et al. (2019) CC2

PLoS Med 16(3): e1002768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002768 Home delivery and late and infrequent attendance at antenatal care (ANC) are responsible for substantial avoidable maternal and pediatric morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. This cluster-randomized trial aimed to de ... more

Start Fund: Learning from disease outbreaks

Start Fund (2018) C1

This learning report attempts to understand the drivers for, and barriers to, effective implementation as well as review the experiences of Start Fund members in responding to these outbreaks to support evidence-based decision-making within the Start Network at project, crisis, and system level. Spe ... more

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons
recommended

UNHCR (2003) C1

Guidelines for Prevention and Reponse

Guidance on development and implementation of a national deployment and vaccination plan for vaccines against pandemic influenza and other respiratory viruses of pandemic potential

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Vaccines are powerful weapons in the fight against pandemic viruses as shown by responses to both the 2009 H1N1 influenza and the COVID-19 pandemics. However, planning for accessing, allocating and deploying vaccines in a pandemic situation is a complex endeavour, beset with multiple challenges at a ... more

Children & neurodevelopmental behavioural intellectual disorders

World Health Organization (2011) C_WHO

Children's Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization

Updated recommendations on treatment of adolescents and children with chronic HCV infection, and HCV simplified service delivery and diagnostics
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

These guidelines provide updated evidence-based recommendations on the priority HCV-related topics from the 2018 WHO Guidelines for the care and treatment of persons diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C infection and the 2017 WHO Guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing. These priority areas are: ... more

Disability and Development

House of Commons International Development Committee DFID (2013) C1

Disabled people in developing countries are the poorest of the poor: if we are serious about tackling extreme poverty, our development work has to target them. The post-2015 development framework offers hope that disabled people will finally get the prominence they deserve on the global development ... more

Europäischer Drogenbericht - Trends und Entwicklungen

Europäische Beobachtungsstelle für Drogen und Drogensucht (EMCDDA) EMCDDA (2018) C1

Community needs, perceptions and demand: community assessment tool

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

A module from the suite of health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemicINTERIM GUIDANCE5 February2021 The Community needs, perceptions and demand: community assessment toolcan be used by countries to conduct a rapid pulse survey of community health needs and perceptio ... more

Gender-Age Marker Toolkit

European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (2010)

Understanding the Antibiotic Manufacturing Ecosystem

Wellcome Trust; Boston Consulting Group (2022) CC

A view of global supply chains, pressure points, and implications for antimicrobial resistance response

Collaborative TB/HIV Services

USAID; TBCTA; Family Health International (2009) C2

Standard Operating Procedures for Implementation of TB Activities at HIV/AIDS Service Delivery Sites

Hope for the Future Again: Tracing the effects of sexual violence and conflict on families and communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

J.Kelly, M.VanRooyen, J.Kabanga, et al. (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative) (2011) C1

Clinical Practices of African Traditional Medicine

Paulo Peter Mhame, Kofi Busia & Ossy MJ Kasilo the African health monitor (2010) C1

In African traditional medicine, the curative, training, promotive and rehabilitative services are referred to as clinical practices. These traditional health care services are provided through tradition and culture prescribed under a particular philosophy, e.g. ubuntu or unhu. Norms, taboos, tradit ... more

Involving the Community in Responding to TB/HIV: Outcomes of Community-Led Monitoring and Advocacy

Open Society Institute; Public Health Watch (2017) C2

Public Health Fact Sheet Involving the Community in Responding to TB/HIV: Outcomes of Community-Led Monitoring and Advocacy Accessed November 2017

Ebola: Getting to zero - for communities, for children for the future

(2015)

As slight hints of recovery begin to surface in West Africa, UNICEF is looking at the impact of Ebola on children and the response and work of the affected communities in the report, Ebola: Getting to zero – for communities, for children for the future. The document traces some of the outbreak’s ... more

Protection interventions for older people in emergencies

Allaire, A. Help Age International (2015) CC

Systematic review on the diagnosis, treatment, care and prevention of tuberculosis in prison settings

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2017) C_CDC

Scientific advice Prevention and control of communicable diseases in prison settings.