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WHO guideline on contact tracing
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World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

This practical guideline establishes definitions for “contact”, “contact person”, “contact tracing” and other associated concepts. It allows for improvement of contact tracing strategies and provides recommendations attempting to answer some, though not all, questions that arose during t ... more

Facilitating inclusion in disaster preparedness: A practical guide for CBOs

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Give2Asia (2018) C1

In disaster preparedness, the participation of women, children, older people, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and other minority groups and sectors is important because they are the most vulnerable against disasters. Inclusive disaster preparedness provides technical and logical frameworks that as ... more

Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

K.Kar and R. Chambers Plan International and Institute of Development Studies IDS (2008) CC

This handbook has been compiled as a source of ideas and experiences that can be used for CLTS orientation workshops, advocacy to stakeholders, training facilitators and natural leaders and implementing CLTS activities. It is a resource book especially for field staff, facilitators and trainers for ... more

Fentanils and synthetic cannabinoids: driving greater complexity into the drug situation

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2018) C2

An update from the EU Early Warning System

Hospital Safe from Disasters

ISDR; World Health Organization WHO; The World Bank United Nations (2008) CC

Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives

Medical Peace Work Course 4: Structural violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict

Salvage J, Rowson M, Melf K and Sandøy I medical peace work (2012) CC

In this course you will examine the interconnections between poverty, development and violent conflict. This is one of seven Medical Peace Work courses.

A rapid review of evidence on the managing the risk of disease emergence in the wildlife trade

World Animal Health Organization (OIE) (2021) C_WHO

A rapid review of evidence on the managing the risk of disease emergence in the wildlife trade - World Animal Health Organization (OIE)

Pharmaceutical Waste Management An Overview

Kadam. A.; et al. (2016) C1

European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol.3 (2016) 1, 192-206 This review shows that if all sub areas of pharmaceutical waste management can efficiently work back to back environmental pollution and dangers to human health can reduce significantly.

IFRC Monitoring and evaluation framework for psychosocial support interventions – Toolbox

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2018) C2

The toolbox contains guidance and tools (sample templates) for data collection in M&E of PSS programmes. The tools can be adapted to PSS programme, depending upon target group, activities and scope. These are tools that may be useful for your programme and many are drawn from existing PSS programme ... more

How school systems can improve health and well-being: topic briefs: nutrition

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This topic brief highlights how nutrition and healthy diets support the achievement of education and learning objectives, and explains how intervention benefits can be amplified with a whole-school and systems approach. The recommended actions are informed by the Global Standards for health-promotin ... more

Management of healthcare workers returning from Ebola-affected areas

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2015) CC2

Infection prevention and control measures for Ebola virus disease

The OIE Strategy on Antimicrobial Resistance and the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials

World Organisation for Animal Health (2016) C2

The OIE has been working on the AMR issue for a long time. In undertaking its role as a standard- setting organisation* for animal health, including zoonoses, the OIE has developed a wide range of international standards on antimicrobial agents, in particular on responsible and prudent use. The ... more

Prevalences of dementia and cognitive impairment among older people in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

A.Mavrodaris; J. Powell; M. Thorogood Bull World Health Organ (2013) C2

Bull World Health Organ 2013;91:773–783 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.13.118422 (Submitted: 15 February 2013 – Revised version received: 21 June 2013 – Accepted: 22 June 2013 – Published online: 20 August 2013)

Clinical Guidelines: HIV Diagnosis - Chapter 2

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2019) C_WHO

Accessed: 29.09.2019

A Matter of Life and Death: Tackling Violence against Health Care in Pakistan, Peru and El Salvador

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2017) C1

Every day, health-care providers are being attacked, patients discriminated against, ambulances held up at checkpoints, hospitals bombed, medical supplies looted and entire communities cut off from critical services around the world.
Between January 2012 and December 2014, the ICRC documented n ... more

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

Watts,N.; N. Amann, M. Arnell, et al. (2020) C1

The Lancet Volume 397, ISSUE 10269, P129-170, January 09, 2021

Pioneer Project: A holistic systems strengthening approach towards Malaria control in Mid-Western Uganda

Malaria Consortium and Comic Relief (2014) C1

Successes and lessons

Guidance on the use of mpox vaccines. Revised edition

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2024) C_WHO

Smallpox eradication was certified in 1980. Mpox has been endemic in Central and West African countries since it was first detected in 1958 . It is a zoonosis; cases are often found close to tropical rainforests where various animals carry the orthopoxvirus that causes the disease. In endemic countr ... more

The Big Catch-Up: An Essential Immunization Recovery Plan for 2023 and Beyond

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The backsliding of immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with delayed catch-up efforts has resulted in a large and growing immunity gap. There is an urgent need to close this gap, and enable millions of missed children to be vaccinated. The Essential Immunization Recovery Plan ... more

A Practical Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Ethiopian Hospitals

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -Ministry of Health (2018) C1