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The primary audience of this report with the compendium of resources are youth engagement practi ... more
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What Motivates Women to Act? Perspectives on the Value of and Experiences in Using Antenatal Care in Khulna and Rangpur, Bangladesh

Nahar, Quamrun, Marzia Sultana, Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie, and Rasheda Khan National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), and ICF International (2016) C1
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Network HPN Paper: The role of education in protecting children in conflict

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The State of the World’s Children 2013: Children with Disabilities examines the barriers – f ... more
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National HIV Strategic Plan 2016-2021
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HIV and the Law in South-East Asia

United Nations Development Programme Bangkok Regional Hub (2015) C2
The audit was undertaken in order to ascertain whether allocations and donations received directly by the Government ... more
Evaluation of Norwegian support to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, Uganda country study – Summary
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Overview. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be ... more
Myanmar is one of the world’s 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, and supporting TB control in Myanmar is a global priority. This report reflects ... more
Thirty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights ... more

The Men Are Away: Pregnancy Risk and Family Planning Needs among Women with a Migrant Husband in Barisal, Bangladesh

Khan, Rasheda, Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie, Quamrun Nahar, and Marzia Sultana National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), and ICF International (2016) C1
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Looking forward, the 2019-2020 Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) for the DRC situation aims at addressing the needs ... more
The second edition of the WHPCA Global Atlas of Palliative Care was launched during World Hospic ... more
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The global doctor

Willott C et al. UCL Institute for Global Health and Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education (2012) C2
This report explores the reasons why global health is critical to medicine and what this means for medical education. It argues that an understanding of global health is important for all students a ... more
To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities for early learning and education, responsive relationships and connectedness, and opportunities for personal autonomy and self-realization. To prom ... more
Report of an intensive legal training and capacity-building workshop on law and noncommunicable diseases (Moscow, 30 May–3 June 2016) The report summarizes important issues, themes and topics dis ... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound ethical challenges on an unprecedented global scale. These challenges include how to allocate scarce resources (especially vaccines and therapeutics), both within and between countries, whether and when to m ... more
Access to health workers who are fit for purpose, motivated and protected is a fundamental force of health service delivery and the achievement of ... more
Updated 17 April 2020 Improving care for women during pregnancy and around the time of childbirth to prevent and treat pre-eclampsia and eclampsia is a necessary step towards ... more
The purpose of the WHO Manual for the Public Health Management ... more
This paper focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty, economic growth, inequality, health, food production and the environmen ... more
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious public health concern with economic, social and political implications that are global in scope, and cross all environmental and ethnic boundaries. As a global threat, AMR risks the ach ... more
[Preface]. For more than forty years Primary Health Care (PHC) has been recognized as the cornerstone of an effective and responsive health system. The ... more
The objectives of the meeting were: 1. To step up the commitment ... more

The fight against fake drugs by NAFDAC in Nigeria

The fight against fake drugs by NAFDAC in Nigeria Olike Chinwendu KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) Development Policy & Practice Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2008) CC
Review over the work and challenges of the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in combatting counterfeit ... more
This study looks at commitments made at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) under the Grand Bargain and provides an overview of good practices on l ... more

National Strategy and Action Plan for Clubfoot Care in Bangladesh

Dr. A. M. Z. Hussain; Dr. Rizvi; Dr. Qavi; et al. Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh DGHS Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ; Sustainable Clubfoot Care in Bangladesh (2015) C2
December 2015 National guidelines for of Clubfoot
This publication describes an arduous campaign to tackle the use of antimicrobials - specifically antibiotics - in the Danish swine-producing secto ... more
Accessed 15th of October 2015
This study aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of a community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programme known as Inspire2Care (I2C), implemented in Nepal by Karuna Foundation Nepal. In ... more
The report provides the much-needed evidence to design interventions for children in Kenya and as such we urge partners to use this report as a document for planning for children.
Accessed 15th of October 2015
Many groups in sub-Saharan Africa have historically linked persons with disabilities with witchcraft as a component of a wider link between accusations of witchcraft and socially marginalized popula ... more
Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
his Inter Action Review report for the COVID-19 outbreak in Mauritius documents and assesses the country’s capacity to respond to the outbreak an ... more

Ministerial policy dialogue on HIV and related comorbidities in eastern Europe and central Asia (EECA)

World Health Organization (Europe); Government of the Netherlands; UNAIDS (2019) C_WHO
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 July 2018 Meeting Report
A new report released today documents an “invisible wall” which has blocked migrants from accessing basic services since the start of the COVID ... more
Disability at a Glance 2015 focuses on barriers to the employment of persons with disabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, and offers solutions to ... more
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Human rights must be at the centre of all prevention, preparedness, containment and treatment efforts from the start, in order to best protect publ ... more
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is committed to ensuring the effective implementation of ... more
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. ... more
While the full effects of COVID-19 remain unknown, the pandemic continues to profoundly impact regional migration and mobility dynamics, with deep ... more
In 2017, the World Bank and partners created the Global Investment Framework for Nutrition as a roadmap towards achieving the World Health Assembly ... more
A report submitted to the International Labour Organization, Geneva
The international reconstruction effort in Afghanistan after 2001 created an opportunity to advance human rights, and women’s and girls’ rights in particular. Although its achievements have fall ... more
Based on the Vulnerability Index developed in this review, an estimated 22.7 million persons in Myanmar, or 44% of the population, were found to ha ... more

Advocacy in Action - A Toolkit to support NGOs and COBs responding to HIV/AIDS

International HIVAIDS Alliance (Supporting Community Action on AIDS in Developing Countries); ICASO (International Council of AIDS Service Organizations); USAID; et al. (2003) C2
Developed in collaboration with the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
The increasing global trend of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has gradually emerged as a major public health challenge for the entire world. AMR ha ... more

Punjab Province Report: Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan

Zaidi, Shehla; Bhutta, Zulfiqar et al. Institute of Development Studies, Aga Khan University (2015) C1
In this report a nutrition governance framework was applied to research and analyse the provincial experience with nutrition policy in Pakistan, looking both at chronic and acute malnutrition. Twenty-one in-depth interviews with key stakeholders wer ... more
Including a Tool to Assess the Adolescent Health and Development Component in Pre-Service Education of Health-Care Providers
Humanitarian crises exacerbate nutritional risks and often lead to an increase in acute malnutrition. Emergencies include both manmade (conflict) and natural disasters (floods, drought, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.). Complex emergencies are combinations ... more
Uganda is Africa's largest refugee-hosting country and ranks fifth globally. Over the decades, Uganda has hosted refugees from nations including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic ... more
Little is known about the patterns of development assistance (DA) for each component of reproduc ... more
Reproductive health needs are particularly acute in countries affected by armed conflict. Reliable information on aid investment for reproductive health in these countries is essential for improving the efficiency and effectiveness ... more
The results of the report clearly show that in 2020, a year dominated by the emergence ... more
National Tuberculosis Programme
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) for Tuberculosis (TB) 2016-2020 builds on the past experiences for the Natio ... more
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Application of a One Health approach . The present guidance was developed with the support of ... more
The purpose of this guidance is to assist WHO Member States, and other stakeholders, in the establishment and ... more
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Governments have dedicated a pivotal role to the private sector in the implementation and financing of ... more
Background:Neonatal mortality accounts for 43% of global under-five deaths and is decreasing more slowly than maternal or child mortality. Donor funding has increased for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), but no analysis to date has disagg ... more
This document sets out the criteria and procedures to be followed by countries in verifying the interruption of yaws transmission. It is intended f ... more
The National Strategic Plan is based on the following guiding principles:
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The Need for a Regional Response to an Unprecedented Migration Crisis. This report provides an overview of where the more than 2 million Venezuel ... more
Updated on 6 APRIL 2020 There are serious concerns that the situation might escalate in the next weeks modelling the epi curve ... more
This is the first global report on epilepsy summarizing the available evidence on the burden of ... more
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides a vast amount of information and the highest possible resolution for pathogen subtyping. The application ... more
OECD Development Policy Tools
Recognising that donor policies and responses constantly evolve, this guidance recommends that donors operating in situations of forced displacement prioritise thr ... more
Slavery on fishing vessels, degradation of ecosystems, overfishing, debt bondage, human trafficking and child labour in peeling sheds – the scandals surrounding ... more
Manual for use in primary care. There is substantial evidence for the benefits of screening and brief intervention in primary health care for alcohol problems. However, there is a need for screeni ... more
With about 24 million of Yemen’s 30 million people in need of some form of assistance, the ... more
This strategy defines the World Health Organization (WHO) vision and framework for supporting Member States to accelerate the development, implemen ... more
In preparing this paper, the Pharmacovigilance Group of the Pan American Health Organization’s Pan American Network for Drug Regulatory Harmoniza ... more
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Based on WHO South-East Asia Regional Strategy on Autism Spectrum Disorder
The collaborative framework for implementation of the “WHO South- ... more
Enabling young children to achieve their full developmental potential is a human right and an essential requisite for sustainable development. Given the critical importance ... more
Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels.
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