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Health equity for persons with disabilities: guide for action
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

An estimated 1.3 billion people globally experience significant disability. This figure has grown over the last decade and will continue to rise due to demographic and epidemiological changes. In 2022, the World Health Organization launched the Global report on health equity for persons with disabil... 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

Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides
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UN Women Reliefweb OCHA (2024) C2

Globally, 85,000 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2023. 60 per cent of these homicides—51,000—were committed by an intimate partner or other family member. 140 women and girls die every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative, which means one woman or girl is killed eve... more

Guía Operativa: Asesoramiento Sobre Lactancia Materna en Situaciones de Emergencia

Emergency Nutrition Network ENN (2024) C2

El asesoramiento sobre lactancia materna es una interacción bidireccional entre un/a asesor/a con formación en lactancia materna y una o varias mujeres embarazadas, madres u otras personas cuidadoras de niños/as menores de dos años (normalmente). El proceso consiste en escuchar inquietudes, ab... more

Multiple first-line therapies as part of the response to antimalarial drug resistance

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Effective malaria case management requires quick access to diagnostics and antimalarial treatments to reduce illness and death. Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been essential to malaria treatment since 2001, as it combines artemisinin for rapid parasite reduction with a partner drug ... more

Community health workers to improve uptake of maternal healthcare services: A clusterrandomized pragmatic trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Geldsetzer, P.; Mboggo, E.; Larson, E.; et al. (2019) CC2

PLoS Med 16(3): e1002768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002768 Home delivery and late and infrequent attendance at antenatal care (ANC) are responsible for substantial avoidable maternal and pediatric morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. This cluster-randomized trial aimed to de... more

Revised National Guidelines on Mpox

Wasif Malik, M.; et al. National Institute of Health, Pakistan (2024) CC

This document serves to provide interim guidance/ recommendations to carry out mpox surveillance activities mainly case investigation, contact tracing and isolation. For the development of this document WHO, UKHSA and CDC guidelines were referred to and adopted within the country context.

Guideline on management of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children up to 10 years of age

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Pneumonia and diarrhoea account for 23% of under-five mortality and were responsible for an estimated 1.17 million deaths in children under five globally. Furthermore, pneumonia and diarrhoea were responsible for 18% of mortality in children 5–9 years of age, resulting in an estimated 86 000 preve... more

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Paediatrics for Doctors in Papua New Guinea

Frank Shann and John Vince (2003)

A guide for doctors providing health services for children. 2nd edition

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Treatment of tuberculosis - Annex 5 Reports of the systematic reviews

World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO

Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosisand patient care 2017 Update

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Standards for improving the quality of care for children and young adolescents in health facilities

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

These standards for the quality of paediatric care in health facilities form part of normative guidance for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health care. In view of the importance of the continuum of both the life-course and service delivery (1), these standards bu... more

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One Health and NTDs

Antonia Braus, Maria Victoria Larrateguy , Angela R. Schug, Johan Willems DNTDs (2019) C2

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Disability Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

In March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a pandemic, due to the speed and scale of transmission. WHO and public health authorities around the world are taking action to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Certain populations,... more

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Clinical Handbook on the health care of Survivors Subjected to Intimate Partner Violence and/or Sexual Violence, Namibia

Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia; WHO; UNFPA; et al. (2020) C_WHO

This handbook is an adaptation from the WHO Clinical Handbook Health care for women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Women and United Nations Population Fund. The handbook draws on the work from professionals who are dedic... more

Pocket book of primary health care for children and adolescents: guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence
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World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2022) C_WHO

It summarizes guidance on how to manage – and when to refer – children and adolescents presenting with common complaints and conditions. It includes information to enable primary health care providers to coordinate the continued care of children and adolescents with long-term conditions and dise... more

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Uganda: Accelerating Access to Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia Worksheet

USAID, Maternal and Child Survival Program (2015) C1

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Clinical Management Rape Survivors Developing Protocols

World Health Organization; UNHCR (2004) C_WHO

Developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons

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Post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV infection

World Health Organization; ILO (2007)

Joint WHO/ILO guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection.

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Primera ayuda psicológica: Guía para trabajadores de campo
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Organización Mundial de la Salud, War Trauma Foundation, Visión Mundial Internacional. (2012) C_WHO

Esta guía trata de la primera ayuda psicológica, un modo práctico y humano para ayudar y apoyar a nuestros semejantes en graves situaciones de crisis. Se ha pensado para personas que se tienen la posibilidad de ayudar a otras que han experimentado un hecho extremadamente angustiante. Proporciona... more

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Ebola virus disease preparedness strengthening team Guinea-Bissau country visit 12–20 November 2014

World Health Organization (2014)

The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir... more

Health equity for persons with disabilities: guide for action recommended

Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides recommended

Pocket book of primary health care for children and adolescents: guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence recommended

Primera ayuda psicológica: Guía para trabajadores de campo recommended

Health equity for persons with disabilities: guide for action
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Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides
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Pocket book of primary health care for children and adolescents: guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence
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Primera ayuda psicológica: Guía para trabajadores de campo
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