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Understanding and controlling asthma in Latin America: A review of recent research informed by the SCAALA programme

Cooper, P. J.; Figueiredo, C. A.; Rodriguez, A.; et al. (2023) CC2

Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease (CRD) worldwide and is estimated to affect 262 million causing significant mortality and morbidity, and has emerged as an important public health problem in many Latin American (LA) countries over the last 30 or so years. LA is a highly diverse r... more

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Mpox Multi-country external situation report n. 37

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

22 September 2024

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Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Climate Commitments - an East and Southern Africa Review

UNFPA (2024) CC

Women, girls and marginalized groups who are largely dependent on natural resources for livelihoods are among the hardest hit by extreme weather patterns. These weather patterns limit their access to food, water, shelter, education and access to essential health services, including those that addres... more

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Financing Global Health 2018: Countries and Programs in Transition

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2019) C2

This 10th edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report provides the most up-to-date estimates of development assistance for health, domestic spending on health, health spending on two key infectious diseases – malaria and HIV/AIDS – and fut... more

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A Roadmap to combat postpartum haemorrhage between 2023 and 2030

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

WHO today released its first roadmap to tackle postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) – defined as excessive bleeding after childbirth - which affects millions of women annually and is the world’s leading cause of maternal deaths. Despite being preventable and treatable, PPH results in around 70 000 de... more

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Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): guidance to support country implementation, second edition.

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing the second edition of its Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) guidance. The document aims to equip governments to respond to the health and well-being challenges, opportunities and needs of adolescents. The guidance pro... more

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Tracking Development Assistance for Health: A Comparative Study of the 29 Development Assistance Committee Countries, 2011–2019

Nomura S. et al. (2021) CC

Development assistance for health (DAH) is an important part of financing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. We estimated the gross disbursement of DAH of the 29 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... more

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Kenya National Oral Health Policy 2022-2030

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Oral health is defined as the absence of disease and a status that ensures optimal functioning of the mouth and its tissues in a manner preserving the highest level of function and self-esteem. Oral health enables an individual to eat, speak and socialise having no active disease, discomfort or disc... more

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Global Trends and Prospects

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2023) CC

According to most recent data, the world economy grew by 3.1 per cent in 2022. To many, the rebound suggested that a soft landing was possible in 2023, and that the key problems of the year 2022 – rising prices, supply-chain disruptions and recession risks – have been addressed. As a result, t... more

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Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health (13 May 2020)

United Nations (2020) CC

Although the COVID-19 crisis is, in the first instance, a physical health crisis, it has the seeds of a major mental health crisis as well, if action is not taken. Good mental health is critical to the functioning of society at the best of times. It must be front and centre of every country’s resp... more

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COVID-19 in Latin America and the caribbean region: Symptoms and morbidities in the epidemiology of infection

Anaya-Covarrubias, J.Y.; et al. (2022) C1

Curr Opin Pharmacol . 2022 Apr;63:102203.doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2022.102203. Epub 2022 Feb 11. The COVID-19 pandemic has widespread economic and social effects on Latin America (LA) and the Caribbean (CA). This region, which has a high prevalence of chronic diseases, has been one of the most affected... more

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African Regional Convening to Support Parents and Caregivers

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The African Regional Convening of the Global Initiative to Support Parents (GISP) stimulated the interest or engagement of almost 1500 individuals from 742 unique organizations in the fields of health, education, social welfare, women’s affairs, early childhood, water and sanitation, mental health... more

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Analysis of the nature and contribution of innovative health financing mechanisms in the WHO African Region

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Africa is off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and lags behind in building resilient health systems and health security, against a backdrop of limited resources. The world envisaged a significant role for governments in funding the Sustainable Development Agenda, but inadeq... more

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Research priorities for Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis

World Health Organization WHO (2012) C_WHO

This report provides a review and analysis of the research landscape for three diseases – Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis – that disproportionately afflict poor and remote populations with limited access to health services. It represents the work of the disease re... more

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The global burden of chromoblastomycosis

Santos, D.; Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, C.; Aparecida Vincent, V. et al. (2021) CC

Chromoblastomycosis (CBM), represents one of the primary implantation mycoses caused by melanized fungi widely found in nature. It is characterized as a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) and mainly affects populations living in poverty with significant morbidity, including stigma and discrimination.

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Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Nature Communications (2022) CC

Snakebite envenoming affects millions of people worldwide annually and is a significant source of mortality. Preventing and treating the problem is complex and requires collaboration among the fields of public health, medicine, ecology, and laboratory science. After being removed from the category A... more

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Guide for the Medical, Veterinary and allied Professions

Bishop, G.; Durrheim, D.; Kloeck, P. et al. Department: Agriculture, Foresty and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa (2010) CC

Rabies is a disease of animals but too often the outcome is gauged in terms of human suffering and death. Despite this, in areas of the world where rabies is endemic there is often a lack of communication between veterinary and medical professionals, to the extent that the disease continues to thri... more

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Healthier Populations in Africa

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Promoting health and preventing disease is a critical component of the effort required to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). to date, efforts to achieve UHC have focused mostly on strengthening health systems and their capacities to provide curative care. However, experience from the COVID-19 ... more

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Female Genital Mutilation Among Cross-Border Communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda Empty heading

UNFPA ESARO UNFPA ESARO (2022) CC

Despite the existence of criminal law, which is an important aspect of anti-FGM policies and programmes, there is not much research on the effects of cross-border practices that invalidate the law as a deterrent. Much remains unknown about the practice of cross-border FGM, specifically about gaps in... more

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Transforming APOC into a new regional entity for Oncho & LF elimination and support to other PC/NTD

World Health Organization WHO; African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control APOC (2013) C_WHO

In May the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA66.12 (1) on 17 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Among other measures, the resolution urges Member States to: • ensure country ownership of prevention, control, elimination and eradication programmes; • expand and implemen... more