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Save the Children's COVID-19 Program Framework and Guidance and Companion Pieces

Save the Children (2020) C1

How we respond both now and going forward will help mitigate the impact of COVID-19, and to the extent possible preserve children’s rights to Survive, Learn, and Be Protected. We will focus our efforts on the most critical work essential to maintaining these commitments to the extent possible.

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Guidance Note: Protection of Children during Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Arii M., F. Baele, J. Bedford et al. The Alliance for children protection in humanitarian action (2020) C2

Accessed on 31.03.2020 This Guidance Note aims to provide humanitarian child protection practitioners, particularly child protection advisors and program managers, with guidance on how to engage in responses to infectious disease outbreaks to ensure children’s protection needs are taken into ac... more

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Strengthening and adjusting public health measures throughout the COVID-19 transition phases

World Health Organization (Europe) (2020) C_WHO

24 April 2020 Policy considerations for the WHO European Region This document provides key considerations for Member States to help them to decide on the modulation of large-scale restrictive public health measures (i.e. movement restrictions and large-scale physical distancing), while at the... more

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Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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World Health Organization WHO, IFRC; UNICEF (2020) C_WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging health systems across the world. Rapidly increasing demand for care of people with COVID-19 is compounded by fear, misinformation and limitations on the movement of people and supplies that disrupt the delivery of frontline health care for all people... This g... more

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Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2020) C2

Afghanistan has one of the largest populations per capita of persons with disabilities in the world. At least one in five Afghan households includes an adult or child with a serious physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychosocial disability. More than 40 years of war have left more than one million... more

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The future of learning and technology in deprived contexts

Save the Children (2020) CC

This report addresses the future of basic education, ICT use in deprived locations, and the use of ICTs in primary school learning in 2020 and 2025, especially in deprived contexts. It draws on research evidence from the literature, the authors’ experiences of ICT use in education initiatives, int... more

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Coronavirus 2019 and health systems affected by protracted conflict: The case of Syria

Abbara, A.; et al. (2020) CC

May 2020 International Journal of Infectious Diseases 96 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.003

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2020 Global AIDS Update ⁠— Seizing the moment ⁠— Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics. Executive summary

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The UNAIDS 2020 global report is a call to action. It highlights the scale of the HIV epidemic and how it runs along the fault lines of inequalities.

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2020 Global AIDS Update ⁠— Seizing the moment ⁠— Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics

UNAIDS (2020) CC

UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course. Missed targets have resulted in 3.5 million more HIV infections and 820 000 more AIDS-related deaths since 2015 than if the world w... more

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Impact of COVID-19 in Africa: a scenario analysis to 2030 - July 2020

Cilliers, J.; et al. Institute for Security Studies ISS (2020) CC

This report presents three scenarios on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa using economic growth forecasts, mortality and efforts to ameliorate impact through social grants. Likely effects are examined on per capita income, poverty and the attainment of selected Sustainable Development Goals targets. ... more

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Public health considerations while resuming international travel

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

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Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 Mid Year Review

Govt. Ethiopia, OCHA (2020) CC

Ethiopia saw a six-fold increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases between June and August, with 5,689 cases by end June compared to 34,058 cases as of 19 August. Ethiopia also registered more than 13,000 recoveries and more than 600 deaths. As of the last week of August, Ethiopia was leading eastern Afri... more

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Protect the Progress: Rise, Refocus, Recover - 2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

UNICEF, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children.

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Addressing stigma and discrimination in the COVID-19 response

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

Applying the evidence of what works from HIV-related stigma and discrimination in six settings to the COVID-19 response This brief provide evidence-informed guidance to countries on the intersection of stigma related to HIV and COVID-19 in national responses.

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Prevailing against pandemics by putting people at the centre — World AIDS Day report 2020

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

Five years after a global commitment to Fast-Track the HIV response and end AIDS by 2030, the world is off track. A promise to build on the momentum created in the first decade of the twenty-first century by front-loading investment and accelerating HIV service provision has been fulfilled by too fe... more

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Coming together for refugee education

UNHCR (2020) CC

Children in every country are struggling with the impact of COVID-19. An entire generation has had its education disrupted, from nurseries and pre-primaries to universities and apprenticeships

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International standards for the treatment of drug use disorders - Revised Edition Incorporating Results Of Field - Testing

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This document is based on currently available scientific evidence on treatment for drug use disorders and sets out a framework for the implementation of the Standards, in line with principles of public health care. The Standards identify major components and features of effective systems for the tre... more

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Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) - A manual for primary care physicans - Trainee´s handbook

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The manual has been designed in a comprehensive manner, the aim being to provide a holistic approach to the short-term development of human resources, with a focus on primary care physicians. This is a reference manual meant for primary care physicians who will provide care to older people in primar... more

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10 Insights on Climate Impacts and Peace

Detges, A.; Klingenfeld D. , König C., et al. adelphi (2020) C1

A summary of what we know

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A profile of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

UNICEF (2020) CC

Ethiopia is home to 25 million girls and women who have experienced FGM. More than half are in the regions of Oromia and Amhara. Overall, 65 per cent of girls and women aged 15 to 49 have undergone FGM. The highest prevalence is in the Somali (99 per cent) and Afar (91 per cent) regions

Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic recommended

Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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