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Roadmap towards zero leprosy, Pakistan

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

The World Health Organization recently redefined leprosy elimination as a phased process, with the first milestone being the interruption of transmission, achieved when no new child cases (defined as younger than 15 years) are reported for five consecutive years. In Pakistan, the well-functioning ... more

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Abortion care guideline, 2nd ed

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in this docume... more

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Guidelines for using the APCA African Children’s Palliative Outcome Scale

African Palliative Care Association APCA (2012) C2

In the absence of a such a measure, and building on the success of developing the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale (POS) for adults, the African Palliative Care Association has developed the APCA African Children’s POS. The tool has been validated across diseases, countries, settings and ... more

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Guidelines on hand hygiene in community settings

UN Childrens Fund UNICEF; World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

On Global Handwashing Day, WHO and UNICEF have released the first-ever global Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Community Settings to support governments and practitioners in promoting effective hand hygiene outside health care – across households, public spaces and institutions. Framing hand hygiene ... more

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A randomized trial of ‘fresh start’ text messaging to improve return to care in people with HIV who missed appointments in South Africa

Njuguna C., L. Long, P. Mistri, et al. Wolters Kluwer Health (2024) C2

AIDS 2024, 38:1579–1588. Treatment interruptions are a barrier to successful antiretroviral therapy (ART). 'Fresh start messages', which leverage significant days on the calendar (e.g., new year, public holiday) in order to prompt action, have the potential to encourage people with HIV (PWH) to re... more

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Antibiotic resistance – an increasing threat to human health

EUROPEAN ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS DAY (2018) C2

Each year, 33000 people die from an infection due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The burden of infections with bacteria resistant to antibiotics on the European population is comparable to that of inﬂuenza, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined.

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Making older persons visible in the sustainable development goals’ monitoring framework and indicators

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

In 2015, the world reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development by endorsing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs (2030 Agenda). To reach older people – an important, heterogeneous and growing population – and to create visibility in global and national policy and ... more

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A guide to the provision of safe delivery and immediate newborn care in the context of an Ebola outbreak

UNICEF, WHO and Save the Children (2014)

The interventions summarized in this guide are intended to lower the risk of delivery and post-partum complications for both the mother and the newborn, particularly the risk of postpartum haemorrhage and infections, and improve the immediate care of premature babies. The recommendations are also in... more

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Generalized anxiety disorder: When worry gets out of control

National Institute of Mental Health NIMH (2016) C1

Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. You might worry about things like health, money, or family problems. But people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) feel extremely worried or feel nervous about these and other things—even when there is little or no reason to worry about the... more

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CATS Questionnaires - Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen-Caregiver (CATS-C) - 7-17 Years

Universitätskliniekum Ulm (2019) C2

Hilfe und Information in der Ulmer Onlineklinik | Accessed Online January 2019. | The CATS questionnaire is a short freely accessible screening instrument directly based on the DSM-5 criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is a measure of potentially traumatic events and of posttraumat... more

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Santé des femmes en Centrafrique

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (2015) C_WHO

A l’instar des autres femmes du monde, les Centrafricaines de Bangui ont célébré avec beaucoup de fastes la Journée internationale de la femme, édition 2015. Le thème national portait sur l’autonomisation de la femme. Avec les évènements qui secouent le pays, beaucoup d’efforts restent... 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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Zika virus disease timeline

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

A chronological map of the presence of Zika only in those countries for which there is evidence of indigenous transmission by mosquitos, excluding the many countries that have notified imported Zika infections.

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Ground Realities: Voices of Humanitarian Aid Workers from the Frontlines

Roel G. Cabulang; Mariam Mushtaq (2014) CC

Conceived as part of the CWS-A/P project on regional security and risk management, this book presents a collection of testimonies from aid workers in some of the most insecure and volatile environments in the world. The participants recount a broad array of security incidents, such as kidnappings,... more

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The Invasion of the ‘Superbugs’. And the rise of the Champions

Constance Georgina Walyaro Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (2015) C1

Take Action on Antimicrobial Resistance. For students in high school. This AMR booklet is designed to inform high school students on AMR and how they can prevent it on a personal level. It is a brief document that has the potential to capture their interest as they learn from it.

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Take responsibility for your health. Comic strip vol.3

Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (2015) C1

Like the first volume, this one contains messages for the community but they are presented in a different version.

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Global spending on health: rising to the pandemic’s challenges

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The results of the report clearly show that in 2020, a year dominated by the emergence of COVID-19 and its associated health and economic crises, governments around the world rose to the challenge. Sharp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in ... more

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Influenza Transmission Zones

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

The Influenza Transmission Zones are geographical groups of countries, areas or territories with similar influenza transmission patterns. Below is a map showing the borders of the Influenza Transmission Zones as well as the list of countries, areas or territories by zone.

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Superbug Story: Diary Of A Staph

The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy CDDEP (2017) C2

Learn about superbugs from a superbug itself! This animated video explains how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics and eventually turn into superbugs, that are resistant to most known antibiotics.