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White Paper for Global Palliative Care Advocacy: Recommendations from a PAL-LIFE Expert Advisory Group of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican City

C. Centeno, Sitte, T. de Lima L. et.al. Journal of Palliative Medicine (2018) C1

Journal of Palliative Medicine Volume 21, Number 10, 2018 DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0248ad

East and Horn of Africa COVID-19 Strategic Response and Recovery Plan 2021

International Organization for Migration IOM (2021) CC

African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes – Final Report

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (2021) CC

Medical treatment of cystic echinococcosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

Velasco-Tirado, V.; Alonso-Sardón, M.; Lopez-Bernus, A. et al BMC Infectious Diseases (2018) C2

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a well-known neglected parasitic disease. However, evidence supporting the four current treatment modalities is inadequate, and treatment options remain controversial. The aim of this work is to analyse the available data to answer clinical questions regarding medical t ... more

COVID-19: A Human Rights Checklist

Humans Rights Watch (2020) C2

Based on Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s reporting on the human rights dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic (see Related Summary, and the video, below), this document presents 40 questions to provoke thinking about a rights-respecting response to the crisis. The questions address the needs - including aro ... more

Disability facts in Cambodia

Handicap International France (2009) CC

Minor Surgical Procedures in Remote Areas
recommended

Médecins sans Frontières (1989) C2

Including disability in HIV policy and programming : good practices drawn from country-based evidence

Mac-Seing, M. (2014) C1

The purpose of this document is to share good practices and processes concerning the inclusion of disability issues in HIV policy and programming, drawing on specific experiences in Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Cambodia and on lessons learned at international AIDS conferences.

Effect of employment on rate and severity of domestic violence against women in Swaziland

Charles I Azih (2007) C1

“Caged without a roof”: Apartheid in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Amnesty International (2017) C1

Joint MultiSector Needs Assessment - Identifying humanitarian needs among refugee and host community populations in Uganda (August 2018)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2018) C2

Voices of Trauma and Hope

Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights (2016) C1

We created this booklet to share our patients’ stories with a larger community. Too many historical injustices go unacknowledged in Iraq, and human rights abuses continue to this day. We feel it is essential to uncover these injustices and help our patients speak out, in the hope that one day all ... more

Kazakhstan can achieve ambitious HIV targets despite expected donor withdrawal by combining improved ART procurement mechanisms with allocative and implementation efficiencies

A. J. Shattock; C. Benedikt; A. Bokazhanova; et al. PLOS One (2017) CC

Research Article PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0169530 February 16, 2017

Yemen - Country report 2020

UNHCR (2020) C1

According to the United Nations, Yemen has been the "Worst humanitarian crisis in the world," for the past two years. Despite the Hudaydah Agreement signed in December 2018, the fighting continued in many areas of the country, such as Hajjah in the north, Al Dhale' e in the south and Hudaydah along ... more

Key considerations for monitoring shock-responsive social assistance: A guiding framework

SPACE - Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19: Expert Advice (2021) CC

June 2021. Shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) operates in contexts where rapid on-set disasters mean needs for assistance are acute and urgent. Monitoring and identifying problems in programme design and delivery are therefore critical. However, there is limited existing guidance on how to mo ... more

Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in the Americas

Braae, U.; Thomas, L.; Roberson, L. Parasites and Vectors (2018) CC

Taenia saginata is a zoonotic tapeworm that is of economic importance in countries where cattle are kept. The parasite is transmitted from human tapeworm carriers (taeniosis) to bovines (cysticercosis) by excretion of eggs or proglottids containing eggs into the environment via the stool. Bovines ca ... more

Fleeing Ukraine: Displaced people’s experiences in the EU

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2023) C1

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) collected evidence through field missions and from other sources reporting on the situation in March, May and October 2022. In parallel, it launched a large-scale online survey of those fleeing Ukraine. This aimed to gather personal experiences ... more

Monkeypox multi-country outbreak. Rapid Risk Assessment

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2022) C2

Cases of monkeypox (MPX) acquired in the EU have recently been reported in nine EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands). Monkeypox (MPX) does not spread easily between people. Human-to-human transmission occurs through close contact ... more

Pathophysiology of the human immunodeficiency virus

N. R. Calles; D. Evans; D.L. Terlonge Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) (2019) C2

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