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Motivation and retention of primary healthcare workers in rural health facilities: An exploratory qualitative study of Chipata and Chadiza Districts, Zambia.

Manda, K.; Silumbwe, A.; Kombe, M.M. et al. ResearchSquare (2022) CC

While motivational factors vary, opportunities for career advancement, stimulating and challenging tasks, opportunities for promotion, and co-worker recognition are core factors that can engender retention of rural health workers. Interventions are required to enhance rural health worker motivation ... more

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Latest health spending trends: Navigating beyond the recent crises

Mueller M., Morgan D. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2024) CC

With the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing energy and cost-of-living crises, many OECD countries have had to face significant economic and societal challenges over the last five years. The succession of crises has had important implications for health systems and the available resources allocated to... more

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Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2025) CC

Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. This collapse is placing immense pressure on Africa’s already fragile health systems as ODA ...is seen as the backbone of critical health programs: pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health services, disease control programs are all at risk, threatening Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage. Compounding this is Africa’s spiraling debt, with countries expected to service USD 81 billion by 2025—surpassing anticipated external financing inflows—further eroding fiscal space for health investments. Level of domestic resources is low. TThe Abuja Declaration of 2001, a pivotal commitment made by African Union (AU) member states, aimed to reverse this trend by pledging to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector. However, more than two decades later, only three countries—Rwanda, Botswana, and Cabo Verde—have consistently met or exceeded this target (WHO, 2023). In contrast, over 30 AU member states remain well below the 10% benchmark, with some allocating as little as 5–7% of their national budgets to health. In addition, only 16 (29%) of African countries currently have updated versions of National Health Development Plan (NHDP) supported by a National Health Financing Plan (NHFP). These two documents play a critical role in driving internal resource mobilisation. At the same time, public health emergencies are surging, rising 41%—from 152 in 2022 to 213 in 2024—exposing severe under-resourcing of health infrastructure and workforce. Recurring outbreaks (Mpox, Ebola, cholera, measles, Marburg…) alongside effects of climate change and humanitarian crises in Eastern DRC, the Sahel, and Sudan, are overwhelming systems stretched by chronic underfunding. The situation is worsened by Africa’s heavy dependency with over 90% of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics being externally sourced—leaving countries vulnerable to global supply chain shocks. Health worker shortages persist, with only 2.3 professionals per 1,000 people (below the WHO’s recommended 4.45), and fewer than 30% of systems are digitized, undermining disease surveillance and early warning. Without decisive action, Africa CDC projects the continent could reverse two decades of health progress, face 2 to 4 million additional preventable deaths annually, and a heightened risk of a pandemic emerging from within. Furthermore, 39 million more Africans could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to intertwined health and economic shocks. This is not just a sectoral crisis—it is an existential threat to Africa’s political, social, and economic resilience, and global stability. In response, African leaders, under Africa CDC’s stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance. more

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National Strategic Plan: Malaria Elimination 2023-27

National Centre for Vector Borne Disease Control (NCVBDC) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) - India (2023) C2

The National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination in India (2023-2027) focuses on achieving malaria elimination by 2030, in alignment with the Global Technical Strategy. The document outlines the strategies, targets, and goals for malaria elimination, aiming for zero indigenous malaria cases by 20... more

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Technical Brief Workforce Development
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I-Tech International Training and Education Center for Health (2021) CC2

The World Health Organization (WHO) projects a global shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle-income countries. Contributing to the global deficit are chronic under-investment in education and training of health workers; workforce migration; an aging health wo... more

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Community deployment of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine: a field guide

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The document outlines essential steps and provides guidance to countries on the adoption and deployment of c-IPTp so that it is integrated into the existing health system. It draws upon best practices and lessons learned from pilot implementation experiences in eight African countries and targets st... more

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Digital solutions for malaria surveillance

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Surveillance is a core malaria intervention. Data standards, tools and curricula materials have been developed to support countries to strengthen and monitor national routine surveillance systems and to support use of data for decision-making in all transmission settings. These standards have been d... more

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Examining malaria treatment and prevention spending efficiency in malaria-endemic countries, 2000–2020

Apeagyei, A. E.; I. Cogswell, N.K. Patel, N.K.; et al. (2024) CC2

Malar J 23, 333 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05165-w. Prioritization of spending on prevention, anti-malarial medicines, and health systems strengthening can fight incident cases and fatalities simultaneously, especially in resource-scarce, malaria-endemic countries. Furthermore, imp... more

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Declaration for accelerated malaria mortality reduction in Africa: commitment that “No one shall die from malaria”

Ministers of Health of High Burden High Impact (HBHI) Countries in Africa (2024) CC

Issued by the Ministers of Health of High Burden High Impact (HBHI) countries in Africa. Yaounde Declaration. Ministers committed to strengthening their health systems, stepping up domestic resources, enhancing multisectoral action and ensuring a robust accountability mechanism,” notes Dr Daniel ... more

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Early Warnings for All

World Meteorological Organization WMO (2025) C_WHO

The Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative aims to ensure universal protection from hazardous hydrometeorological, climatological and related environmental events through life-saving multi-hazard early warning systems, anticipatory action and resilience efforts by the end of 2027, as called for ... more

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Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case for noncommunicable diseases

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Drawing on the World Health Organization’s package of NCD best buys, the report demonstrates how these evidence-based measures can help countries reduce premature deaths, strengthen health systems, and advance progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. It provides policymakers, donors, ad... more

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Regional Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Version 01, September 2025

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

On 4 September 2025, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Kasai Province, following confirmation of Zaire ebolavirus by the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) in Bulape and Mweka Health Zones. As of 19... more

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Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2026–2031

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2025) CC

This plan, approved by the Organization’s 62nd Directing Council, was shaped by extensive consultations with countries and stakeholders, and commits to transformative health outcomes over the next six years, tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), mental health, health security, fragmented healt... more

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Early Warning Alert And Response Network in emergencies: evaluation protocol

World Health Organisation (WHO) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2018) C_WHO

The document provides a standardized protocol for evaluating the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN), a surveillance system used during humanitarian emergencies when regular national health surveillance may be disrupted. The purpose of EWARN is to detect outbreaks of communicable diseas... more

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Deprived of the right to health. Sick and without medical care in Germany

Médecins du MondeDoctors of the World (2019) C1

Observatory report by Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World Germany:“Deprived of the right to health. Sick and without medical care in Germany” gives a rare insight into the situation of those who have no or only limited access to the German health system.

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“They live in the dark”: Older people’s isolation and inadequate access to housing amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Amnesty International (2023) CC

Ukraine: Russian invasion has forced older people with disabilities to endure isolation and neglect – new report Many temporary shelters inaccessible to people with physical disabilities Overburdened care system often provides few alternatives to institutions for older people Authorities ... more

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Prevalence of Common Diseases in Indigenous People in Colombia

Bauer, H.; Mendoza, G.; Kreienbrock, L. et al. National Library of Medicine (2022) CC

The Indigenous tribe called the Wiwa lives retracted in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Little is known about their health status and whether the health care system in place covers their needs.

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Primary prevention of diabetes (India)

Tharker, S.; M.Nandhini, K. Satyavani, et al. M. V. Hospital for Diabetes & Diabetes Research Centre WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Education & Training in Diabetes (2023) CC

It is now well known that there is a pandemic of Type 2 Diabetes in the world particularly in developing countries. This fact has several implications for the health care system in the developing countries because this condition is associated with metabolic and vascular complications which in turn i... more

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Ebola’s catastrophic effect on the body

Patterson, Clark; Darla Cameron and Sohail Al-Jamea (2014)

Very good infographic included in this article: The virus can lurk in the body for more than a week before it begins a cascading meltdown of the immune system, blood vessels and vital organs. Please download from the website link in the article. Source of the infographic: CDC, New England Journa... more

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HRI Global Resource Page

HRI Global Resource (2022) CC

Protecting Patients, Supporting Practitioners in Tandem. HRI Global is an independent health consultancy which specialises in Whole Health System Strengthening in the public and private sector by implementing the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme (12-PCGP) in primary, secondary and tertiary h... more

Technical Brief Workforce Development recommended

“They live in the dark”: Older people’s isolation and inadequate access to housing amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine recommended

Technical Brief Workforce Development
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“They live in the dark”: Older people’s isolation and inadequate access to housing amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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