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A summary of the new GINA strategy: a roadmap to asthma control

Reddel, H. K.; Bateman, E. D.; Becker, A.; et al. (2015) CC2

Over the past 20 years, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has regularly published and annually updated a global strategy for asthma management and prevention that has formed the basis for many national guidelines. However, uptake of existing guidelines is poor. A major revision of the GINA r... more

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis Module 1: prevention - tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to have been infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacilli, and about 5–10% of those infected develop TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’s im... more

Supported self-management for asthma

Hinnock, H. Breathe (2015) CC

This articel summarises the evidence base underpinning supported self-management for asthma. It provides clinicians with a practical approach to providing supported self-management for asthma and suggests an appropriate strategy for implementing supported self-management.

WHO Country Office in Ukraine annual report 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

This report provides an overview of the operations and activities of the WHO Country Office in Ukraine in 2023. Despite the acute health impacts of the war in Ukraine, the Country Office continued its work according to its core mandate. WHO supported the Government of Ukraine in managing the health ... more

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

Worldwide rates of diagnosis and effective treatment for cystic fibrosis

Guo, J.; Garratt, A.; Hill, A. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis (2022) CC

Time has seen management for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) advance drastically, most recently in the development of the disease-modifying triple combination therapy ivacaftor/tezacaftor/elexacaftor. There is currently limited evidence regarding both the global epidemiology of CF and access to this transforma... more

Terminology and Information on Drugs

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC United Nations (2016) CC

Third edition

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Isoniazid Preventive Therapy and Risk for Resistant Tuberculosis

M. E. Balcells, S. L. Thomas, P. Godfrey-Faussett, et al. (2006) C_CDC

Research Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 12, No. 5, May 2006

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Controlul Tuberculozei la nivelul asistenţei medicale primare

Ministerul sănătăţii al republicii Moldova (2015) C2

Elaborat în cadrul proiectului „Fortificarea controlului tuberculozei în Moldova”, finanţat de către Fondul Global de combatere a SIDA, Tuberculozei şi Malariei.

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Tuberculoza în Republica Moldova

Centrul Naţional de Management în Sănătate (2009) C2

Raport anual

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Strategia Naţională de Control al Tuberculozei în România 2015-2020

Romanian Angel Appeal (2017) C2

Accessed December 2017

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Niederschwellige psychosoziale Hilfe für Geflüchtete. Ein Projektleitfaden
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Zellmann, H. Médecins Sans Frontières (2018) C1

Modellprojekt von Ärzte ohne Grenzen zusammen mit dem Krankenhaus St. Josef in Schweinfurt. Der vorliegende überarbeitete Leitfaden ist stark praxisorientiert und soll als ‚open source‘ zur Nachahmung anregen. Beschrieben werden die Schritte der Entwicklung unseres Modellprojektes ‘Niedersc... more

IASC Guidance: Operational considerations for Multisectoral Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programmes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Inter-Agency Standing Comittee IASC; et al. (2020) C2

In March 2020 the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support uniting 57 humanitarian organizations as member issued the Interim Briefing Note Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak. This document has proven to be very useful in the response and has... more

South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan January 2020 — December 2021

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) CC

Addendum: 2020 mid-year COVID-19 resvision, summary of the reprioritisation & additional requirements in response to COVID-19 In June and July 2020, a mid-year revision of the 2020 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) was undertaken as an inter-agency consultative process to discuss ... more

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COVID-19 and the social determinants of health and health equity: evidence brief

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

6 December 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on mental, neurological and substance use services: results of a rapid assessment in the African Region

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2020) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified mental health as an integral component of the COVID-19 response. Its rapid assessment of service delivery for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic, on which this report is based, is the first attempt to... more

Socioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study

Rosengren, A.; Smyth, A.; Rangarajan, S. et al. The Lancet Global Health (2019) CC

Socioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and common measures of socioeconomic status—wealth and education—differ among... more

Cum să faci ceea ce contează în perioade stresante: Un ghid ilustrat

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2020) C_WHO

Cum să faci ceea ce contează în perioade stresante este un ghid al OMS de gestionare a stresului, pentru a face faţă mai ușor greutăţilor. Acest ghid ilustrat vine în sprijinul implementării recomandărilor OMS pentru gestionarea stresului.

The Interagency Emergency Health Kit 2017
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World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; ICRC; et al. (2019) C_WHO

Interagency Guidelines; Medicines and medical devices for 10 000 people for approximately three month.

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Family Planning

IPPF ESEAOR, UNFPA (2008)

Training On The Misp For Sexual And Reproductive Health In Crisis Part 2

Niederschwellige psychosoziale Hilfe für Geflüchtete. Ein Projektleitfaden recommended

IASC Guidance: Operational considerations for Multisectoral Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programmes during the COVID-19 Pandemic recommended

The Interagency Emergency Health Kit 2017 recommended

Niederschwellige psychosoziale Hilfe für Geflüchtete. Ein Projektleitfaden
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IASC Guidance: Operational considerations for Multisectoral Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programmes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Interagency Emergency Health Kit 2017
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