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Alzheimer's disease facts and figures

J. Gaugler, Ph.D.; B. James, Ph.D.; T. Johnson, Ph.D., et al. Alzheimer's Association (2018) C2

Includes a Special Report on the Financial and Personal Benefits of Early Diagnosis 2018 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures is a statistical resource for U.S. data related to Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia. Background and context for interpretating the data are con... more

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A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness American Indian and Alaska Native

CultureCard SAMSHA (2009) C1

The purpose of this guide is to provide basic information for Federal disaster responders and other service providers who may be deployed or otherwise assigned to provide or coordinate services in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. This guide is intended to serve as a general briefi... more

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Acting on the call

USAID (2018) C1

A Focus on the Journey to Self-Reliance for Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths . June 2018
The 2018 Acting on the Call report focuses on 25 countries’ journeys to self-reliance for preventing child and maternal deaths. Self-reliance is a country’s ability to finance and implement solution... more

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Myanmar Actions for Acceleration

Family Planning 2020 (2017) C1

Commitment objective
The Government of Myanmar views family planning as critical to saving lives, protecting mothers and children from death, ill health, disability, and under development. It views access to family planning information, commodities, and services as a fundamental right for every... more

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Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines 3rd Edition 2023

Government of the Republic of Namibia (2024) CC

The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidelines aim to support healthcare workers improve quality and safety health care. The Guidelines further aim to promote and facilitate the overall goal of IPC by providing evidence-based recommendations on the critical aspects of IPC, focusing on the fun... more

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Building capacity for creating demand in support of malaria prevention and control

Sue George, John Dada, Kolawole Maxwell et al. Malaria Consortium (2014)

In the context of the Support to National Malaria Control Programme (SuNMaP), demand creation is the strategic combination of advocacy, communication and mobilisation approaches that seek to achieve increased community awareness of, and demand for, effective malaria prevention and treatment services... more

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Counseling for Effective Use of Family Planning - Part I

EngenderHealthThe ACQUIRE Project (2008)

Training Manual Building on earlier EngenderHealth work in counseling, Counseling for Effective Use of Family Planning responds to an identified gap in existing materials and fills the needs expressed by those in the field. The intended audiences for this curriculum are health care providers, their... more

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Situational Brief: Deportations and Irregular Migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic

Mosca D. T., C. Marotta, F. di Gennaro, et al. Lancet Migration (2020) CC

The World Health Organization (WHO)6, the Civil Society Action Committee and the Lancet Migration global collaboration are amongst many organisations that have advised governments against returning irregular migrants during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The expulsion of i... more

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Reclaim the Gains - The Case for Investing in the Global Financing Facility 2021–2025

Global Financing Facility (GFF) Global Financing Facility (GFF) (2021) CC

The GFF needs an additional US$2.5 billion from 2021 to 2025 to enable countries to protect health gains and accelerate progress toward the 2030 Goals. Of this amount, the GFF urgently needs to secure new pledges of US$1.2 billion by the end of 2021 to help its current 36 partner countries protect ... more

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PACK Global Adult - Practical Aproach to Care Kit

BMJ PACK (2018) CC

The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) is a health systems improvement programme designed to support the work of primary care health workers in underserved communities (like doctors, nurses, midwives, health officers, community health practitioners), strengthen the health services in which they w... more

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Cadre opérationnel pour renforcer la résilience des systèmes de santé face au changement climatique

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2017) C_WHO

The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed ... more

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Countering Stigmatization in the Humanitarian Response to COVID-19

InterAction (2024) CC

In most contexts, the social stigma surrounding mental health issues exists because of cultural norms and a lack of understanding of mental health’s complexities and realities, resulting in isolation, increased vulnerability, and lack of support for people with mental health problems. This stig... more

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Community Management of Acute Malnutrition CMAM Guidelines

Republic of South Sudan (2017) C1

Maternal and child malnutrition is a significant public health problem in South Sudan. Among children aged 6-59 months, 31% are stunted, 28% are underweight, and nearly 23% are acutely malnourished of which 13% are estimated to suffer from moderate acute malnutrition and 10% from severe acute malnut... more

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Crisis Standards of Care: A Toolkit for Indicators and Triggers

Dan Hanfling, John Hick, and Clare Stroud Dan Hanfling, John Hick, and Clare Stroud (2013)

(You need free registration to download the book) Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During such crises, hospitals and long-term care facilities may be without power; trained staff, ambulances,... more

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National Disability Mainstreaming Strategy and Implementation Plan (NDMS&IP) 2018-2023

Department of Disability and elderly affairs Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare (2019) CC

The NDMS&IP focuses on mainstreaming disability to promote equitable access to services in the six thematic areas of health, education, livelihoods, empowerment, and social inclusion and cross-cutting issues. The first part of the NDMS&IP outlines incongruences between national and sectoral policie... more

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Pocket Guide to Managing Contraceptive Supplies

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2000) C_CDC

The Pocket Guide to Managing Contraceptive Supplies addresses one of the most important components of any program that provides family planning services—the logistics system that manages the delivery, quality, and storage of contraceptive supplies. These supplies are essential; without them, f... more

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Consultation with Children in East Africa for the World Humanitarian Summit - Messages from Children Affected by Emergencies

Save the Children (2015) CC

Children expressed the need for organisations to support in the delivery of services such as health and sanitation. The children also emphasized that schools and the child-friendly spaces (CFSs) were effective and important spaces to provide them with what they need.

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Pharmacies and Drug Shops: Expanding contraceptive choice and access in the private sector

Dwyer, S.C.; et al. HIP Family Planning High Impact Practices (2021) CC

this Service Delivery brief provides evidence-based strategies that can help support drug shops and pharmacies in providing a wider variety of family planning methods and information. Evidence shows that with training and support, pharmacy and drug shop staff can facilitate the use of a broad range ... more

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Promouvoir des Soins de Proximité en Afrique : L'exemple de la Médecine Générale Communautaire au Bénin; Promotion of community-based care in Africa: example of community general practice in Benin

Roland Caplain, Ismaïl Yacoubou, Didier Adedemy, Alidou Sani, Sandrine Takam, Dominique Desplat Cairn Info (2014) C2

Des efforts considérables ont été menés pour apporter aux populations rurales du continent africain des soins de base. Mais la qualité de ces soins reste aujourd’hui peu satisfaisante car le médecin généraliste est le plus souvent absent en première ligne. Cette situation est paradoxa... more

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National Guideline For Emergency Nutrition Intervention (May 2022)

Government of Ethiopia (2022) CC

Humanitarian crises exacerbate nutritional risks and often lead to an increase in acute malnutrition. Emergencies include both manmade (conflict) and natural disasters (floods, drought, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.). Complex emergencies are combinations of both manmade a... more