This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian programme managers and healthcare providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents.
Guidelines for health human resource management (HRM) in disaster management in Indonesia
Guidelines and Consensus for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Indonesia
An essential resource that helps a community understand, treat, and prevent many health problems that affect women. Topics include reproductive health, violence, mental health, HIV, and more.
This film explains the importance of simple screening tests to identify cervical cancer. It shows how to carry out two visual inspection tests – they are called – Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (or VIA) and Visual Inspection with Lugol’s Iodine (or VILI).
This film is for use in skilled h...ealth worker training.
The film is available in English, French, Somali and Swahili
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A Book for Midwives > Chapter 20: The Pelvic Exam: how to examine a woman's vagina and womb > Cancer of the cervix
Where Women Have No Doctor > Chapter 24: Cancer and Growths > Problems of the Breasts
Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting new approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a health systems perspective and for people who use these interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the following working definition of self-care: Self-care is t...he ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health- care provider
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Available in English and Spanish, Hesperian’s comprehensive app on pregnancy and birth contains a wealth of information on:
how to stay healthy during pregnancy
how to recognize danger signs during pregnancy, birth, and
after birth
what to do when a danger sign arises
whe...n to refer a woman to emergency care
instructions for community health workers with step-by-step explanations such as “How to take blood pressure,” “How to treat someone in shock,” “How to stop bleeding.”
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The single-visit approach to cervical cancer prevention (also referred to as the “See-and-Treat” approach) currently involves visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid wash and treatment of precancerous lesions with cryotherapy. These cue cards are meant to be used with Pathfinder Intern...ational’s Clinical Standards of Practice and Counseling Guide is designed to be used by physicians, nurses, midwives, and health officers who provide cervical cancer prevention services using the single-visit approach
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This WHO Guidance Note advocates for a comprehensive approach to cervical cancer prevention and control and is aimed at senior policy makers and programme managers. It describes the need to deliver effective interventions across the female life course from childhood through to adulthood. These inclu...de community education, social mobilization, HPV vaccination, screening, treatment and palliative care. It outlines the complementary strategies for comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control, and highlights collaboration across national health programmes (particularly immunization, reproductive health, cancer control and adolescent health), organizations and partners.
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This film explains the importance of screening, early detection and treatment of cervical cancer. This film is for use in community health education.
This film will explain how pre-cancer cells and cervical cancer develops. It will also explain what you can do to protect yourself from the disease b...y making healthy choices, attending cervical screening and seeking treatment if necessary.
Avilable in different languages: English, Bemba, Somali, haitian Creole, French, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili
For use in the training of skilled health workers, we have an additional two films available
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