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Nigeria: National Nutritional Guideline On Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Control and Management

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2014) C1

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Manuel de l’Utilisation Optimale du Sang

Optimal Blood Use Project (2010) CC

La sécurité du traitement hospitalier et la réalité des soins sont des préoccupations majeures dans les systèmes de santé. La transfusion sanguine a fait l’objet de procédures juridiques et d’études au Canada, en Angleterre, en France, en Irlande et dans d’autres pays. Il conviendr... more

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Technical note: Girls’ Education, Empowerment, and the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation - arabic version

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a global and gendered crisis that is compounding existing inequalities and disproportionately affecting girls and women. Emerging evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 shows school closures, disruptions in essential services and rising... more

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Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

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Analysis of the challenges in implementing guidelines to prevent the spread of multidrug-resistant gram-negativs in Europe

Evelina Tacconelli, Michael Buhl, Hilary Humphreys et al. (2019) C2

The global increase of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) presents a growing concern in healthcare worldwide. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the annual number of HAI exceeds 2.6million and produces the highest estimated amou... more

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Clinical Spectrum of Schistosomiasis

Carbonell, C.; Rodríguz-Alonso, B.; López-Bernús, A.; et al. MDPI Journal of Clinical Medicine (2021) CC

Schistosomiasis is a helminthic infection and one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It is caused by blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma. It is an important public health problem, particularly in poverty-stricken areas, especially those within the tropics and subtropics. It is estimated th... more

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Climate Change and Chagas Disease in the americas: A qualitative systematic review

Graves B.N. (2019) C2

Chagas disease is currently endemic and also predicted to be at increased transmission risk under future climate change scenarios. Similarly, an expansion of areas in the United States at increased risk for Chagas disease transmission is also expected over the next several decades under climate chan... more

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WHO recommendation on duration of bladder catheterization after surgical repair of simple obstetric urinary fistula

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

WHO has issued a new recommendation on the length of bladder catheterization following surgical repair of a simple obstetric urinary fistula. Currently the length of catheterization is not standard and ranges from 5 to 42 days. The new guidance recommends a 7–10 day period of bladder catheterizati... more

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Manual of diagnostic ultrasound. Vol. 2 – 2nd ed.

Elisabetta Buscarini, Harald Lutz and Paoletta Mirk WHO (2013)

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India: Training Module for Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) - Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Nursing Training on HIV/AIDS (Punjabi Version)

Indian Nursing Council; National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2012) C1

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Human schistosomiasis

Colley, D.G.; A.L. Bustinduy, W.E. Secor, et al. (2015) CC

Lancet. 2014 June 28; 383(9936): 2253–2264. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61949-2. Review Article

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Transactional sex and HIV risk: from analysis to action

UNAIDS; STRIVE (2017) C2

UNAIDS 2018 / Reference

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Malaria Operational Plan FY 2018 Ethiopia

United States Agency for International Development United States Agency for International Development (2018) C1

This FY 2018 Malaria Operational Plan (MOP) presents a detailed implementation plan for Ethiopia, based on the strategies of PMI and the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP). It was developed in consultation with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), NMCP, Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EP... more

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Minimum Standardsfor Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies

UNFPA (2015) C2

Gender-based violence is a life-threatening, global health and human rights issue that violates international human rights law and principles of gender equality. It is also a threat to lasting peace and an affront to our common humanity. United Nations Member States have called for urgent action to ... more

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Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals. Facilitator's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Dept. of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India (2004) CC

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Getting the Message Across

UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019) C1

Reporting on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Handbook for Journalists. UNESCO Series on Journalism education. It explores the essential aspects of climate change, including its injustices to vulnerable communities, especially women and girls and least develope... more

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Leitlinie: Diagnostik und Therapie der Schistosomiasis (Bilharziose)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenmedizin und Internationale Gesundheit (DTG) (2017) CC

AWMF guideline, seit 5 Jahren nicht mehr aktualisiert, wird gerade überarbeitet

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GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POINT-OF-CARE CD 4 TESTING TECHNOLOGIES IN ETHIOPIA

Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (2013) C1

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Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals. Learner's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Dept. of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India (2004) C_WHO

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WHO implementation tool for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection - Module 4

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Module 4 Leaders July 2017 Module 4: Leaders. This module aims to inform and update leaders and decision-makers about PrEP. It provides information on the benefits and limitations of PrEP so that they can consider how PrEP could be effectively implemented in their own settings. It also contai... more