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The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvement Training Package is intended to support the training of local outreach workers and their subsequent work in communities to promote improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices to reduce diarrhea
Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015

Drug-Resistant tuberculosis

E.G. Brown Jr, D.S. Dooley, K. Smith Curry International Tuberculosis Center, State of California, California Health & Human Service Agency, Department of Public Health (2016) C1
A survival guide for clinicans. 3rd edition.
WHO/HTM/TB/2007.384a “TB is too often a death sentence for people with AIDS. It does not have to be this way.” -Nelson Mandela, International conference on HIV /AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004

Migration, public health and compulsory screening for TB and HIV

R. Coker Institute for Public Policy Research (2003) C2
Asylum and Migration Working Paper 1
Epidemiology, Control, and Financing
54th directing council; 67th session of the regional Committee of WHO for the Americas CD54/11, Rev. 1, 2 October 2015, Original: Spanish
DHS Working Papers No. 82
Unchecked inequality and failure to protect the rights of poorest women could undermine peace and world’s development goals, new UNFPA report warns: - Only about half of the world’s women hold paid jobs - Globally, women earn 77 per cent of what men get - Three in five women worldwide lack m ... more
Runfree 2030
Also published in Spanish (2013) with the title: Informe sobre la epilepsia en América Latina y el Caribe - ISBN 978-92-75-31776-1
Report of the Joint World Health Organization–Brien Holden Vision Institute Global Scientific Meeting on Myopia | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 16–18 March 2015
The Education 2030 Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action specifies that the mandate of the Global Education Monitoring Report is to be ‘the mechanism for monitoring and reporting on SDG 4 and on education in the other SDGs’ with the responsibility to ‘report on the implementation of nat ... more
Conference Report Sao Paulo, Brazil 22-24 October 2015
salud pública de méxico / vol. 50, suplemento 2 de 2008, pp.167-177. In response to the emerging global concern regarding health and people with intellectual disabilities (ID), several developed countries have established national initiatives to address the unique health needs of this population ... more
This report investigates the impact of potential misclassification of samples on HIV prevalence estimates for 23 surveys conducted from 2010-2014. In addition to visual inspection of laboratory results, we examined how accounting for potential misclassification of HIV status through Bayesian latent ... 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 Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 reaffirmed the right to the highest attainable level of health, with equity, solidarity and the right to health as its ... more
When setting national drinking-water quality regulations and standards, many countries consider the WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality (GDWQ). To better understand the extent to which the GDWQ are used and reflected in these standards, this global review summarizes information from 104 ... more
This guidance document sets out a methodology to identify and track financing to the WASH sector in a coherent and consistent manner across several countries. It is designed to help countries track financing to the WASH sector on a regular and comparable basis and analyse this information to support ... more
This publication offers practical advice on implementing HIV and STI programmes for transgender people, with a focus on transgender women, aligned with the 2011 Recommendations and the 2014 Key Populations Consolidated Guidelines. It contains examples of good practice from around the world that may ... more
Disinfection of drinking-water supplies has been one of the most significant public health advancements of the last century with respect to reducing waterborne disease.
Although chlorine has been used as the disinfectant of choice for public drinking-water supplies for the past century, a numbe ... more
A review of proactive risk assessment and risk management practices to ensure the safety of drinking-water
Based on information gathered from 118 countries representing every region of the globe, this report provides a picture of WSP uptake worldwide. It presents information on WSP implementati ... more

Social protection: a Fast-Track commitment to end AIDS

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS); Unicef; World Health Organization; et al. (2018) C2
UNAIDS 2018 / Guidance Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV

WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies. 3rd report

Abela-Ridder, B. World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO
WHO TRS N°1012. Key updates include: (i) surveillance strategies, including cross-sectoral linking of systems and suitable diagnostics; (ii) the latest recommendations on human and animal immunization; (iii) palliative care in lowresource settings; (iv) risk assessment to guide management of bite ... more
The Lancet Global Health, Vol. 6, No. 10 Published: August 29, 2018
The Need for a Regional Response to an Unprecedented Migration Crisis. This report provides an overview of where the more than 2 million Venezuelans who have left the country since 2014, at least half of them in the past year and a half alone, are now living, the conditions they face, their prospe ... more
2016-2018 Early implementation, This report presents 2015 data on the consumption of systemic antibiotics from 65 countries and areas, contributing to our understanding of how antibiotics are used in these countries. In addition, the report documents early efforts of the World Health Organization ( ... more
The purpose of the landscape analysis is ultimately to facilitate improved engagement of private providers, thereby contributing to universal access to quality and affordable TB care and the end of the TB epidemic. It focuses on the role of private for-profit providers and on specific challenges and ... more
This research aims to identify a core set of clinical skills for working in a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) setting, and to discuss whether they are appropriate for task shifting to a new or an alternative cadre of rehabilitation workers.
The State of the World’s Children 2013: Children with Disabilities examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to vicious discrimination – that deprive children with disabilities of their rights and keep them from partic ... more
As of October 2017, the global database comprised almost 30 000 records, including results from bioassays to measure phenotypic resistance, and biochemical and molecular tests for resistance mechanisms. The current report presents an overview of data on malaria vector resistance for 2010 to 2016. It ... more
20 February 2013 Update on 2004 Background Paper (Written by Saloni Tanna) Priority Medicines for Europe and the World "A Public Health Approach to Innovation"
The report “Dementia: a public health priority” has been jointly developed by WHO and Alzheimer's Disease International. The purpose of this report is to raise awareness of dementia as a public health priority, to articulate a public health approach and to advocate for action at international a ... more
Progress towards targets of the Global action plan on dementia

The Global Dementia Observatory Reference Guide

World Health Organization (2018) C_WHO
Version 1.1 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Цель настоящего доклада — повысить осведомленность о деменции как одной из приоритетных проблем общественного здравоохранения, сформу- лировать подход к этой п ... more
This report aims to improve the assessment of mental health needs in the Americas by providing an updated and nuanced picture of: (a) the disability resulting from mental, substance use, and specific neurological disorders, plus self-harm, alone and in combination with premature mortality; (b) the i ... more
For the 24th consecutive year, PAHO has published the report Health Situation in the Americas: Core Indicators featuring the latest information on key indicators for the Region of the Americas. This 2018 edition includes data on the 82 core indicators for the countries, territories, and sub regions ... more

Executive Summary - Conclusions and policy implications

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; World Drug Report 2017 (2019) C2
World Drug Report 2017 -1- Accessed: 14.03.2019

Analysis of drug markets - Opiates, cocaine, cannabis, synthetic drugs

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018) C2
World Drug Report 2018 -3-

EU Drug Markets Report

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2016) C2
Strategic Overview

Health, Rights and Drugs

UNAIDS (2019) C_WHO
Harm Reducation, Decriminalization and Zero Discrimination for People who use Drugs
New assessment guidelines for measuring the overall impact of mental health problems in Latin America have served as a catalyst for countries to review their mental health policies. Latin American countries have taken various steps to address long-standing problems such as structural difficulties, s ... more
This report presents the most current data on four specific forms of violence – violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. The statistics reveal that children expe ... more

Atlas - Child and adolescent mental health resources

World Health Organization; International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; World Psychiatric Association (2005) C_WHO
Global concerns: Implications for the future Child Mental Health Atlas

Students' Toolkit: Social accountability in medical schools

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA); Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) (2017) C2
This toolkit aims to provide you with a brief introduction of what SA and its core principles are, and how you as a student can apply several of the existing tools for your own school to really make a difference. French, Spanish and Arabic Version available: https://ifmsa.org/social-acc ... more
Making the Case for Alcohol as a Public Health Threat in the Region. The purpose of this document is to explain the need for making alcohol a top public health priority in the region and the need for national and regional action. Current evidence-based research shows that alcohol consumption and dri ... more

Epilepsy in Latin America

Kestel, D., et al. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2016) C_WHO
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) represent a range of physical, mental, and behavioral disabilities caused by alcohol use during pregnancy, or prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). FASDs are considered to be one of the leading preventable causes of developmental disability. Despite its high preval ... more
As of June 2019, the number of Venezuelans leaving their country reached 4 million, with Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil hosting the vast majority of Venezuelans in Latin America. The end of the first half of the year was marked by the announcement of tighter immigration measures in Peru ... more
During the past five decades, the incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold. Some 50–100 million new infections are estimated to occur annually in more than 100 endemic countries, with a documented further spread to previously unaffected areas; every year hundreds of thousands of severe cases ari ... more
This guide is a revised edition to the previous version published in 2017. This updated publication provides programme managers with a user-friendly tool that can: (i) analyse and draw conclusions from historic dengue datasets; (ii) identify appropriate alarm indicators that can predict forthcoming ... more
The aim of this “model contingency plan” is to assist programme managers and planners in devel-oping a national, context-specific, dengue outbreak response plan in order to: (a) detect a dengue outbreak at an early stage through clearly defined and validated alarm signals; (b) precisely define w ... more
People living with HIV who have a low CD4 count are at a much higher risk of falling ill from TB infection than HIV negative people. It is important to offer both HIV testing to TB patients and TB diagnosis in HIV patients. Early detection and effective treatment are essential to preventing TB ... more
A new report by the world’s largest humanitarian network warns that the number of people needing humanitarian assistance every year as a result of climate-related disasters could double by 2050. It estimates that the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of storms, droug ... more
Tokar A, et al. Sex Transm Infect 2019;95:193–200. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2018-053684
UNAIDS 2019, Reference This edition of UNAIDS data shows the results of some of those successes, but also the challenges that remain. It contains the very latest data on the world’s response to HIV, consolidating a small part of the huge volume of data collected, analysed and refined by UNAIDS ov ... more
Defending Rights Breaking Barriers Reaching People with HIV Services Global Aids Update 2019
Global AIDS Update 2017

Biobehavioural Survey Guidelines - For Populations at risk for HIV

A. Abdul-Quader; M. Berry; T. Bingham; J. Burnett; et al. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention; UNAIDS; World Health Organization; et al. (2017) C_WHO
Global HIV Strategic Information Working Group
dos Santos et al. BMC Public Health 2014, 14:80 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/80
BMJ,Dodd PJ, et al. Thorax 2017;72:559–575. doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209421

Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in children

E. Venturini; A. Turkova; E. Chiappini; et al. BMC Infectious Diseases; BioMed Central; PubMed.gov (2014) CC
Venturini et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14(Suppl 1):S5 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/S1/S5
Second Edition Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education

Biobehavioural Survey Guidelines

A. Abdul-Quader, M. Berry, T. Bingham; et al. UNAIDS; World Health Organization; fhi360; et al. (2017) C_WHO
Global HIV Strategic Information Working Group For Populations At Risk For HIV
Accessed: 06.11.2019

Implementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Transgender People

UNFPA; World Health Organization; UNDP (United Nations Development Programme); et al. (2016) C2
Practical Guideline for collaborative interventions

Implementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Men Who Have Sex with Men

J. Bear; G. Ayala; J. Butler; et al. United Nations Population Fund; World Health Organization; USAID; UNAIDS; et al. (2015) C2
Practical Guidance for collaborative interventions
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 and security, but also, with its special insights, at assisting Member States in anticipating and address-ing threats from drug markets an ... more
Constituting the second part of the World Drug Report 2022, the present booklet contains an overview of the global demand for and supply of drugs. The first chapter of the booklet begins with the latest estimates of the number of people who use drugs, the distribution of those users by type of drug ... more
This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis. The first chapter of the booklet provides an overview of opioids as a group of substances and their patterns of non-medical use at the global level. It also reviews the latest trends in the global supply of opi ... more
Constituting the fourth part of the World Drug Report 2022, this booklet focuses on the market dynamics of various stimulants – cocaine, amphetamines and “ecstasy” – and of NPS. The first chapter contains an analysis of the global market for cocaine, starting with a review of cocaine supply ... more
The booklet starts with a general overview of how illicit drugs and the environment are linked within the bigger picture of the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change and environmental sustainability. It highlights direct and indirect linkages and gives examples of the significant local and i ... more
Key Messages and Recommendations. The Report, Todos y todas sin excepción, produced by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC /UNESCO Santiago), along with the Laboratory of Education, Research and Innovation in ... more

Act 2015 - Advocacy strategy toolkit

UNAIDS; IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation); Youth Rise (for reducing drug related harm); et al. (2014) C2
A practical toolkit for young people who are passionate about advancing HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights through national advocacy in the post-2015 agenda.

Evolution towards the elimination of congenital syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean: a multicountry analysis

M. F. Silveira; R. G. Ponce de Leon; F. Becerra; et al. PAHO (Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization); Iris (Institutional Repository); Rev Panam Salud Publica (2019) CC
Original Research Rev Panam Salud Publica 43, 2019 | www.paho.org/journal | https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2019.31

HIV prevention in the Spotlight

M. Alonso González; J. Hourcade Bellocq; M. B. Mello; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); UNAIDS (2017) C_WHO
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington, D.C., 2017
Washington, DC, 2013

Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in the Americas

M. Alonso González; M. B. Mello.; A. Benzaken; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); Unicef; et al. (2017) C_WHO
Update 2016

New generations free of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and Chagas disease in the Americas 2018

M. Alonso González; M. B. Mello; L. Sereno; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); Unicef (2019) C_WHO
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