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Every child alive: The urgent need to end newborn deaths

UNICEF (2018)

Globally, in low-income countries, the average newborn mortality rate is 27 deaths per 1,000 births, the report says. In high-income countries, that rate is 3 deaths per 1,000. Newborns from the riskiest places to give birth are up to 50 times more likely to die than those from the safest places.
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Sodium intake and iodized salt in the South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2015) C_WHO

Report of a regional workshop, New Delhi, India, 29–30 September 2014
To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease and its subsequent problems, the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia organized a regional workshop on sodium intake and iodized salt for Member States in the South-East Asi ... more

Birth registration for every child by 2030 - Are we on track?

UNICEF (2020) C1

Society first acknowledges a child’s existence and identity through birth registration. The right to be recognized as a person before the law is a critical step in ensuring lifelong protection and is a prerequisite for exercising all other rights. A birth certificate is proof of that legal ide ... more

Resource Guide on Climate Change for Religious Communities

Religions for Peace (2016) C1

Social protection: a Fast-Track commitment to end AIDS

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS); Unicef; World Health Organization; et al. (2018) C2

UNAIDS 2018 / Guidance Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV

Training module on malaria elimination. Guide for Participants

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

This Training module on malaria elimination has been developed by WHO to support health professionals in planning, managing, monitoring and evaluating malaria elimination programmes

Building back better: Lessons learned from the response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami in terms of long - term development, disaster risk reduction and resilience building in Aceh , Indonesi

UNICEF Indonesia (2014)

Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

This booklet provides latest available estimates of the prevalence of depression and other common mental disorders at the global and regional level, together with data concerning the consequences of these disorders in terms of lost health.

Resilience in a Riskier World: Managing Systemic Risks from Biological and Other Natural Hazards - Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2021) C1

Since the start of the pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters. At the same time, climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts of many of these disasters. The *Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021, *also launched today, shows that the p ... more

Ecuador - Country Indicators Medical Devices

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

Fact Sheet Global Atlas of medical devices

Nepal: Saarc Guidelines for Partnership with School in Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre (2006) C1

SAARC Regional Strategy for Control/Elimination of Tuberculosis 2013-2017

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre Nepal (2015) C1

The SAARC Member States have more than an estimated 2.0 million TB cases accounting for close to one-third of the total cases of TB in the world. India alone had almost one-fifth of the global disease burden due to TB. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh followed by Afghanistan are the major contributors ... more

Nepal: SAARC Regional Strategy on Advocacy, Communication & Social Mobilization for TB and HIV/AIDS

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre Nepal (2012) C1

Climate change and health in small island developing states: a WHO special initiative

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

This report has been prepared in response to informal requests by SIDS Member States and territories for WHO assistance in confronting the stark and dire situation which climate change has created in their countries and the impact it is having on their peoples

Diabetes in the South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2016) C_WHO

Special issue: WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health -Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2016.This special This issue contains a rich collection of articles, demonstrating the encouraging scientific momentum to address the growing burden of diabetes in the region

How To Add Deworming To Vitamin A Distribution

World Health Organization, UNICEF (2004)