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Guidance on operational microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This publication is a companion document to the NDVP National Deployment and Vaccination Plans guidance, which provides a framework for countries to develop their national strategies. As countries face challenges with erratic vaccine supplies, use of multiple vaccine products with different charact... more

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Health systems resilience during COVID-19: lessons for building back better

Sagan, A.; E. Webb, M. Mckee et al. World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19

UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

The COVID-19 pandemic led to school closures around the world, affecting almost 1.6 billion students. The effects of even short disruptions in a child’s schooling on their learning and well-being have been shown to be acute and long lasting. The capacities of education systems to respond to the cr... more

Nota Técnica - Dexametasona - Covid-19

Ministerio da Saude Brasilia, Centro Colaborador do SUS (2021) CC

Dexametasona para tratamento de pacientes com COVID-19

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

Global guidance on criteria and processes for validation: elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus

EMTCT Global Validation Advisory Committee, Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Validation of elimination of mother-to-child transmission, or vertical transmission, of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus (HBV), is an attestation that a country has successfully met standard criteria for elimination, or for being at 1 of the 3 levels of achievement on the ‘Path to Elimination�... more

Creating HIV prevention cascades — Operational guidance on a tool for monitoring programmes

UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

This publication provides managers with guidance on how to create basic HIV prevention cascades as a starting point to enhance their ability to monitor and improve their programming and to facilitate comparisons of programme effectiveness across sites.

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Rapport de situation mondial sur les services WASH dans les établissements de santé: les impératifs premiers

Organisation Mondiale de la Sante, Unicef WHO (2021) C_WHO

Ce rapport identifie les principales lacunes mondiales dans les services WASH : un tiers des établissements de santé ne dispose pas des installations de lavage des mains nécessaires sur les lieux de soins ; un établissement sur quatre n’a pas de services de base pour l’approvisionnement en e... more

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Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities: Fundamentals first

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The report identifies major global gaps in WASH services: one third of health care facilities do not have what is needed to clean hands where care is provided; one in four facilities have no water services, and 10% have no sanitation services. This means that 1.8 billion people use facilities that l... more

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Use of COVID-19 evidence in humanitarian settings: the need for dynamic guidance adapted to changing humanitarian crisis contexts

Odlum, A.; R. James; A. Mahieu; et al. Conflict and Health (2021) CC

For humanitarian organisations to respond effectively to complex crises, they require access to up-to-date evidence-based guidance. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of updating global guidance to context-specific and evolving needs in humanitarian settings. Our study aimed to under... more

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The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Oxfam (2021) CC

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doi... more

National palliative care training curriculum for HIV&AIDS, Cancer and other life threatening illnesses

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2013) CC

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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

Improving the Quality of PrEP Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: An implementation brief to support programming in Eastern and Southern Africa

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain disproportionately affected by HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), with 26 per cent of new infections attributed to this population. AGYW face many personal, social and structural barriers to access, uptake and use of traditional HIV prevention me... more

WHO preferred product characteristics for gonococcal vaccines

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Development of one or more vaccines for Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an important objective for sexual and reproductive health worldwide, and for the fight against antimicrobial resistance. WHO preferred product characteristics (PPCs) provide strategic guidance as to WHO’s preferences for new vacci... more

National Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Strategy 2014/15-1018/19

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2018) CC

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Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts

Schell, C.O.; K. Khalid, A.Wharton-Smith, et al. (2021) CC

Key questions What is already known? Critical illness is common throughout the world and COVID-19 has caused a global surge of critically ill patients. There are large gaps in the quality of care for critically ill patients, especially in low-staffed and low-resourced settings, and mortal... more

South-East Asia regional strategy for primary health care: 2022-2030

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care: 2022-2030 aims to accelerate progress in all countries of the Region towards universal health coverage (UHC), health security and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is intended to provide Member States with guid... more

Zimbabwe multi-sectoral cholera elimination plan 2018-2028

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa; Cholera Secretariat Zimbabwe (2019) C_WHO

Multi-sectoral Cholera Elimination Plan

COVID-19: Strategic preparedness and response plan for WHO African Region 1 February 2021-31 January 2022 (Update of 16 April 2021)

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

The 2021 COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for AFR serves as a regional guide for a holistic public health response to COVID‑19 at regional, national and sub-national levels. The 2021 SPRP: 1. Builds upon the lessons learnt from the implementation of the 2020 SPRP and outl... more