Community Based Rehabilitation for Children with Disabilities: Good Practices and Lessons from Save the Children Norway Ethiopia Programme Intervention
This document is written for local and international staff running nutrition programmes in emergencies, and for local, regional and national authorities and donors involved in such programmes.
The note explains why nutrition programmes need to include early childhood development (ECD) activities t...o maximize the child’s development.
It provides practical suggestions as to what simple steps are necessary to create integrated programmes in situations of famine or food insecurity and it gives examples of how such integrated programmes have been established in other situations.
This document is also available in Arabic: http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/ecd_why_what_how_arabic.pdf?ua=1
;and in French: http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/ecd_why_what_how_french.pdf?ua=1
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This learning paper describes Malaria Consortium’s experience with Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) in malaria prevention and treatment in Mozambique and Uganda. ICCM is an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat, and refer complex cases malaria (an...d other diseases) in children
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African Population Studies, Etude de la population africaine vol. 20 n° 2
La sexualité des adolescents est devenue un sujet de préoccupation de santé publique, avec l’extension du SIDA au cours de ces dernières années, particulièrement en milieu urbain.
Quels sont les déterminants des pr...atiques sexuelles des adolescents ? Pourquoi certaines
pratiques peuvent-elles être qualifiées de comportements à risque ? Dans quelles mesures les politiques de santé publique pourront-elles résoudre les problèmes liés à ces pratiques
sexuelles ? C’est pour apporter des éléments de réponse à ces questions que l’enquête sur le comportement sexuel a été menée auprès de 806 adolescents filles et garçons dans la ville de Bangui. Huit discussions de groupes ont été également organisées avec ces adolescents et leurs parents.
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Evaluation of Norwegian support to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, Uganda country study – Summary
Global UNIDO Project: Strengthening the local production of essential medicines in least developed and developing countries
PLoS One. 2012; 7(4): e29656.
Published online 2012 Apr 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029656
PLoS ONE 7(12): e52986. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052986. Opern Access please download from the website
Strengthening health-system emergency preparedness.
Ghana Med J. 2012 Jun;46(2 Suppl):69-78.
Mapping actions of nongovernmental organizations and other international development organizations
Consultancy to take forward the International Health Partnership