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Guidelines for Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Indian Council of Medical Research (2022) CC2

The ICMR type 1 diabetes guidelines come at a time when the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disproportionately affected people with diabetes population, exposing them to a high risk for severe illness and mortality. Globally, diabetes was responsible for over fourmillion deaths in the year 2019. It was th... more

The adolescent health indicators recommended by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health: Guidance for monitoring adolescent health at country, regional and global levels

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO; UN Women; UNAIDS; United Nations Population Fund UNPF; World Bank; World Food Programme WFP; World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Adolescence is a critical stage in life for physical, cognitive and emotional development, shaping future health and well-being. Comprehensive measurement of adolescent health is essential to prioritize health issues, guide interventions and track progress. However, global, regional and national ado... more

Advancing the global agenda on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2000 to 2020

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This document highlights landmarks and key milestones in the development and implementation of the global agenda for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) over the last two decades. It summarizes where the world was in 2000, where it is in 2022, and where the world wants to be in terms of NCD prevention a... more

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

Global surveillance, prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases - a comprehensive approach

Bousquet, J.; Khaltaev, N. (2007) C_WHO

Chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kill more than four million people every year and affect hundreds of millions more. These diseases erode the health and well-being of the patients and have a negative impact on families and societies. Women ... 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

Progress in snakebite envenoming data reporting: challenges and opportunities

Nikiema Nidjergou, Y.N.; et al. World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Progrès dans la notification des données sur l’envenimation par morsure de serpent: défis et opportunités. Englisch/Francais. WEEKLY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RECORD, NOS. 51/52, 20 DECEMBER 2024, pp. 770-775

Recovering from the Ebola Crisis

Magdy Martínez-Solimán; Abdoulaye Mar Dieye; Izumi Nakamitsu et al. United Nations, The World Bank, European Union and African Development Bank (2015)

Full Report. In response to a call by the United Nations Secretary-General and the Governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, an international team conducted an Ebola Recovery Assessment. The aim was to contribute towards laying the foundation for short-, medium- and long-term recovery while ... more

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KENYA AIDS RESPONSE PROGRESS REPORT 2016

Ministry of Health and National AIDS Control Council, Republic of Kenya (2016) C2

Nutrition in the First 1,000 Days: State of the World’s Mothers 2012

Safe the children (2012)

Sierra Leone: National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2016-2020
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National AIDS Secretariat Sierra Leone, et al. (2015) C1

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Climate-induced migration and health issues - A toolkit for policymakers

International Institute for Environment and Developmend (IIED) OCHA Services Reliefweb (2022) C2

Loss and damage is an urgent concern, driven by the increasingly harmful effects of climate change. Communities are experiencing new types and forms of climate impact, of higher frequency and intensity, which they are not equipped to handle. These impacts compel vulnerable communities to migrate to ... more

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Disaster Risk Management Strategy: Towards Resilient Communities

Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) (2013)

Between 1992 and 2012, disasters caused more than 1.3 million deaths, affected more than 4.4 billion people and led to US$ 2 trillion in economic damages and losses around the world. This Disaster Risk Management Strategy explains how the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) anti... more

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UNFPA Regional Syria Crisis Response: Overview of Funding Needs 2022

UNFPA (2022) CC

Unprecedented humanitarian needs, the COVID-19 pandemic, a worsening economic crisis, and funding shortfalls converge to create life-threatening challenges for people in need throughout the region. In March 2022, the Syria crisis entered its 12th year, marking another grim milestone for Syrians t... more

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Disability and Development

House of Commons International Development Committee DFID (2013) C1

Disabled people in developing countries are the poorest of the poor: if we are serious about tackling extreme poverty, our development work has to target them. The post-2015 development framework offers hope that disabled people will finally get the prominence they deserve on the global development ... more