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The NDMS&IP focuses on mainstreaming disability to promote equitable access to services in the six thematic areas of health, education, livelihoods
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The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part
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The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part
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Extreme heat events (EHEs) are a leading cause of weather-related injury and death in the United States
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[Preface]. For more than forty years Primary Health Care (PHC) has been recognized as the cornerstone of an effective and responsive
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Under the theme Equity at the Heart of Health, this Plan seeks to catalyze efforts in Member States to reduce inequities in
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This module has been developed to provide training and guidance to improve the quality of care and huma
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, though it can affect any organ in the body. It can develop when bacteria spread through droplets in the air. TB can be fatal, but in many cases, TB is preventable and treatab
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Viral hepatitis is defined as inflammation of the liver cells due to viral infection. The burden of liver disease in South Africa is mostly underestimated as viral hepatitis, in particular chronic i
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Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monito
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22 Sept. 2021
The rapid development of effective Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 gave hope to the world in the darkest days of the deadly pandemic. However, the vaccine roll-out has been massively skewed
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The chapter Closing the Gap: The Health Disparities of Older LGBTI People in the Americas, is part of the publication series titled ‘Decade
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The goal of this course is to provide participants with the foundational skills needed to begin the development, implementation and ongoing improvement o
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Person-centred recovery planning for mental health and well-being: self-help tool: WHO QualityRights
Ensuring mental health and well-being has become a worldwide imperative and an important target of
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In October 2022, President Biden signed the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act (GMPTA) into law, which directs USAID to prevent and treat malnutrition globally. The GMPTA further codif
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The message contained in this publication is clear: countries need a
public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of
chemical and
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office
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This document updates recommendations for HIV testing by laboratories in the United States and offers approaches for reporting test results to pers
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Since the release of the first volume in May 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to rage around the world. By mid-March, 2021, countries around the globe had reported over 123 million cases—a nearly five-fold increase since this report’s p
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The report examines how people with mental health conditions are often shackled by families in their own homes or in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, against their will, due to widespread st
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Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediat
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Abstract-The paper precisely and briefly explains the socio-economic challenges of persons with disabilities with focus on Ethiopia. The findings o
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At the end of 2023, WHO convened our first-ever annual WHO Stakeholder Review Conference for Prevention and Response to Sexual Misconduct. Aimed at joint learning
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n 2015, Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and
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As the number of transboundary pest and animal and foodborne disease outbreaks rises, so does the number
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WHO today released its first roadmap to tackle postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) – defined as excessive bleeding after childbirth - which affects millions of women annually and is the world’s leading
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Review of International, Regional and National Policies and Legal Frameworks that Promote Migrants and
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The WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) was launched in 2015 to foster AMR surveillance and inform strategies to contain AMR. The system started with surveillance
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Guidance module.
The QualityRights training and orientation modules have been developed to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of key
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It outlines key achievements, needs and opportunities for intervention in the field of rehabilitation in Ukraine. The content of this document is a
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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders globally. The WHO epilepsy technical brief aims to strengthen action for epilepsy and complements the Intersect
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With about 24 million of Yemen’s 30 million people in need of some form of assistance, the United
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Children continue to be exposed to powerful food marketing, which predominantly promotes foods high in saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars and/or sodium and uses a wide variety
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International commitment to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem worldwide is supported by resolution WHA51.11 of the World Health Assembl
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On February 29, 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement outlining a phased withdrawal
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Every day in 2020, approximately 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth - meaning that a woman dies around every two minutes.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.1 is to reduce maternal mortality to less
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This report presents further analysis of the 2015 Nepal Health Facility Survey. Data analysis is based on the Donabedian framework for assessing quality o
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The primary role of Benin’s Department of Pharmacy and Medicines (DPMED) is to develop
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The overview of findings from five Latin American countries
Les modules de formation et d’orientation QualityRights ont été élaborés pour renforcer les connaissances, les compétences et la compréhension des principales parties prenantes sur la manière de promouvoir les droits des personnes en situation de handicap psychosocial, intellectuel ou cogni
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This Guidance was developed in response to the increase in HIV-related human rights crises and the shrinking civic space for rights-related responses to HIV in recent years across the world. This do
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Rehabilitation in health systems provides recommendations for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen
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DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 115
PLoS Med 10(1): e1001366. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001366
Published: January 8, 2013
10 years after the UN general assembly special session on drugs
The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. Th
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The World Drug Report 2022 is aimed not only at fostering greater international cooperation to counter the impact of the world drug problem on health, governance
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WHOs Special Initiative for Mental Health has supported the availability of mental health services
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Vanquishing violence and vulnerability in humanitarian settings
Background paper for the joint African Union–UNAIDS (in capacity of serving
Chair of
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14 January 2021
This practical guide can be used to help countries monitor and analyse the impact of COVID-19 on essential health
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By December of 2019, an estimated 5.3 million Venezuelans would have left the country, migrating in search of opportunities, health
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The study analyses the current situation of children with disabilities in relation to realizing their rights and accessing basic services, as well
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In 2015, the United Nations set important targets to reduce premature
cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths by 33% by 2030. Africa disproportionately
bears the brunt of CVD burden
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Reports of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) microorganisms are increasing globally, threatening to render existing treatments ineffective against many infectious diseases. In Africa, AMR has already been documented to be a problem for
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a continuous and robust impact on world health. The resulting COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating physical, mental
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Mental Health Atlas 2020
recommended
The Mental Health Atlas, released every three years, is a compilation of data provided by countries around the world on mental health policies, leg
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Every year, nearly 250 million people move across borders temporarily or permanently for a job opportunity, studying, to flee a crisis back home, or for other reasons. Another 750 million move for similar reasons within the borders of their countrie
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Unchecked inequality and failure to protect the rights of poorest women could undermine peace and world’s development goals, new UNFPA report war
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Legislative and Policy analysis and recommendations for reform
This guidance is intended to be used by programme managers following the decision to introduce human papillomavirus (HPV) virological testing as a screening assay in their national cervical cancer prevention
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Accessed: 07.11.2019
The main purpose of the meeting was to review tsetse control tools, activities and their contribution to the elimination of gHAT
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This implementation brief addresses integration of HIV testing services into family planning (FP) services. It is intended as a practical resource
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Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karykram (RBSK). Operational Guidelines
This curriculum can be used freely in order to stimulate means of ethical analysis, reflection and decision-making.
High quality of care in family planning (FP) services has been found to be associated with increased and continued use
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The Public Health Burden of Commercial Tobacco Use
The burden of disease and death from commerc
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Report of a mission 20–24 April 2015
These guidelines are applicable to all biomedical, social and behavioural science research for health conducted in India involving human participan
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Member States have requested WHO policy guidance on how to facilitate the implementation of national AMS activities in an integrated and programmat
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Since 2000, concerted efforts by national programmes, supported by public–private partnerships, nongovernmental organizations, donors and academia under the auspices and coordination
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Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
Supportive supervision is considered critical to community health worker programme performance, but there is relatively little understanding of how it can be sustainably done at scale. Supportive su
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Results of rapid assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93%
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Health Evidence Network synthesis report 53
AMR is a serious and growing global problem. A WHO report released in 2014 stated that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future it is happening now in every region of the world
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Cancer centres are a major resource in ensuring a comprehensive approach to cancer treatment and its planning. As part of a new roadmap developed by WHO a
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According to the Report, cascading and interlinked crises are putting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in grave danger, along with humanity’s very own survival. The Report highlights the severity
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