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Symptom-based screening tool for asthma syndrome among young children in Uganda

Nantanda, R.; Siersma, V.; Ndeezi, G. et al. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (2020) CC

Under-diagnosis of asthma in ‘under-fives’ may be alleviated by improved inquiry into disease history. We assessed a questionnaire-based screening tool for asthma among 614 ‘under-fives’ with severe respiratory illness in Uganda. The questionnaire responses were compared to post hoc consensu ... more

HIV drug resistance patterns in pregnant women using next generation sequence in Mozambique

Rupérez et al. (2018) CC

This study aimed to understand the patterns of HIV drug resistance in pregnant women in Mozambique. This might help in tailoring optimal regimens for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (pMTCT) and antenatal care.

Vulnerability in Myanmar: A Secondary Data Review of Needs, Coverage and Gaps

Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme Facility (HARP-F) & Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) (2018) C1

Based on the Vulnerability Index developed in this review, an estimated 22.7 million persons in Myanmar, or 44% of the population, were found to have some form of vulnerability related to human development and/or exposure to active conflict/violence. These people experience varying combinations of p ... more

Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar: Water usage and introduction to water quality criteria for lakes and rivers in Myanmar. Preliminary report

Mjelde, Marit; Ballot, Andreas; Swe, Thida; Eriksen, Tor Erik; Nesheim, Ingrid; Aung, Toe Toe Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA) (2017) C1

The purpose of the report is to present some first recommendation for the development of Myanmar ecological quality criteria using the system of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) as baseline, with main focus on the characterization and classification processes. As background for the recommen ... more

Profiles of Peripheral CD4+T Cells Count during Antiretroviral Treatment in Senegalese Adults Infected by HIV: Impact of Therapeutic Associations

Niang M. S., R. Derwiche, B. Mbengue Journal of Immunology, Infection & Inflammatory Diseases (2017) CC

Thirty-three years after its discovery, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), responsible for the AIDS pandemic, remains a major public health problem despite advanced researches providing better diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The virus targets especially CD4+ T cells, leading to deficiency of ... more

An atlas of tsetse and animal African trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe

Shereni, W.; L. Neves, R. Argilés, et al. (2021) CC

Parasites Vectors 14, 50 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04555-8

Climate risk country profile Brazil

World Bank Group (2021) C1

This profile is part of a series of Climate Risk Country Profiles developed by the World Bank Group (WBG). The country profile synthesizes most relevant data and information on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation actions and policies at the country level. The country profile se ... more

Special Report Mental Health and Human Rights in Cambodia

Daniel McLaughlin Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (2009) CC

The Importance of Contextual Factors in Carrying Out Childhood Violence Surveys: a Case Study from Indonesia

L. Rumble, A. A. Ramly, M. Nuryana, et al. (2017) C1

National Baseline Study on Violence against Children: Philippines. Recommendations

UNICEF (2016)

Rwanda Non-communicable Diseases Risk Factors Report

Ministry of Health, Rwanda (2015) C2

The Rwandan Ministry of Health recognizes the threat that Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) pose to health and development in Rwanda and in 2009 articulates strategies to respond to them in the Health Sector Strategic Plan 2012 - 2018 (HSSP3). Among other things, the plan calls for a national prevale ... more

Ebola Outbreak to Recovery: Sierra Leone Progress Report October 2015

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Follow-up and tracing of tuberculosis patients who fail to attend their scheduled appointments in Cotonou, Benin: a retrospective cohort study

Serge Ade1, Arnaud Trébucq, Anthony D. Harries, Gabriel Ade, Gildas Agodokpessi, Prudence Wachinou, Dissou Affolabi, Sévérin Anagonou BMC Health Services Research (2016) C2

Ade et al. BMC Health Services Research (2016) 16:5 Background: In the “Centre National Hospitalier de Pneumo-Phtisiologie” of Cotonou, Benin, little is known about the characteristics of patients who have not attended their scheduled appointment, the results of tracing and the possible b ... more

Occupational segregation, gender essentialism and male primacy as major barriers to equity in HIV/AIDS caregiving: Findings from Lesotho

Newman et al International Journal for Equity in Health (2011) CC

Climate Risk country profile : Colombia 2021

Fernanda Zermogli, MacKenzie Dove World Bank Group (2021) CC

his profile is part of a series of Climate Risk Country Profiles developed by the World Bank Group (WBG). The country profile synthesizes most relevant data and information on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation actions and policies at the country level. The country profile ser ... more

Statement containing brief activities of the Department of AIDS Control in India in 2013

National AIDSControl (NACO), Government of India; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2014) C1

India AIDS Response Report 2014

The burden of HIV and tuberculosis on the resuscitation area of an urban district-level hospital in Cape Town

Swarts, L.; S. Lahri, and D.J. van Hoving (2021) CC

African Journal of Emergency Medicine Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 165-170

Evaluation of a Mental Health Training Course for Primary Health Care Workers in Ogun State, South West, Nigeria

Adebowale T., Umukoro O., Gater R., et al. Journal of Psychiatry (2014) CC

Climate Risk Country Profile – Argentina

The World Bank Group (2021) C2

This profile is part of a series of Climate Risk Country Profiles developed by the World Bank Group (WBG). The country profile synthesizes most relevant data and information on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation actions and policies at the country level. The country profile seri ... more

The bumpy road to better health: how embedded research strengthened health services in Ghana

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This is the story of how an experiment in the north of Ghana changed the health of a nation. How health staff in remote and rural areas are working tirelessly to prevent the deaths of mothers and children. How a radical approach to health research, known as embedded research, has revolutionized how ... more