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UNAIDS (2019) C2

Defending Rights Breaking Barriers Reaching People with HIV Services Global Aids Update 2019

In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a heal...th emergency that disregards physical borders, brings into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

Estimating HIV incidence using HIV case surveillance

World Health Organization; UNAIDS (2017) C_WHO

WHO working group on HIV incidence assays meeting report 10–11 December 2015 Glion, Switzerland UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance WHO/HIV/2017.03

#WhatWomenWant: a transformative framework for women, girls and gender equality in the context of HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights

UNAIDS (2017) C1

This report brings attention to achieving gender equality in the context of women, girls, and the HIV response. This six-month consultation in 2016 with adolescent women and young girls found that #WhatWomenWant is: collaboration and joint action by all to invest in women's HIV and Sexual and Reprod... more

Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions. 18th edition

MSF Access Campaign Médecins Sans Frontières (2016) C3

This report provides an update on the key facets of HIV treatment access, including the latest HIV treatment guidelines from World Health Organization (WHO), an overview on pricing for first-line, second-line, and salvage regimens, and a summary of the opportunities for – and threats to – expand... more

Landscape for HIV rapid diagnostic tests for HIV self-testing - 4th edition

World Health Organization (WHO); UNITAID World Health Organization (WHO); UNITAID (2018) C2

July 2018 This fourth edition of the Unitaid/WHO market and technology landscape: HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing report summarizes the current HIV testing gap; the challenges facing efforts to scale up; and the potential role HIV self-testing (HIVST) could play to achieve the United... more

Promoting partner and couples HIV testing using self-test kits in Kenya

H. Thirumurthy, E. Omanga, B. Obonyo et al. (2017) C1

Nepal: SAARC Regional Strategy on TB/HIV Co-infection

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre Nepal (2011) C1

Un long chemin reste à parcourir

ONUSIDA (2018) C2

Combler les écarts Rompre les barrières Réparer les injustices Synthèse

WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

World Health Organization (2010) C_WHO

To improve survival and quality of life among the 2.5 million children living with HIV, a comprehensive package of prevention, care and treatment is required. This package should include management of infections such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and ear infections, as well as common opportunisti... more

Power to the People

UNAIDS (2019) C_WHO

The report shows that where people and communities living with and affected by HIV are engaged in decision-making and HIV service delivery, new infections decline and more people living with HIV gain access to treatment. When people have the power to choose, to know, to thrive, to demand and to work... more

Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2007

Central Statistical Office Lusaka; Ministry of Health Zambia; Tropical Diseases Research Centre, Zambia, DHS; et al. (2009) C1

Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: revised, updated and expanded for Integrated Care - Section 2; Session 1: The national infant feeding situation

WHO, UNICEF (2009)

The revised package of BFHI materials includes five sections: 1. Background and Implementation, 2. Strengthening and Sustaining the BFHI: A course for decision-makers, 3. Breastfeeding Promotion and Support in a Baby-friendly Hospital: a 20-hour course for maternity staff, 4. Hospital Self-Appraisal... more

HIV prevalence and determinants of loss-to- follow-up in adolescents and young adults with tuberculosis in Cape Town

P. Mulongeni; S. Hermans; J. Caldwell; et al. PLOS One (2019) CC

PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210937 February 5, 2019

HIV/TB counselling: Who is doing the job?

Médecins sans Frontières (2017) CC

Time for recognition of lay counsellors Accessed November 2017

Propelling the Pediatric HIV Therapeutic Agenda With Science, Innovation, and Collaboration

E. J. Abrams; J. Ananworanich; M. Archary; M.N. Ngongondo; P. Brouwers J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr; Pub Med (2018) C2

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Volume 78, Supplement 1, August 15, 2018

Stigma and discrimination: Key Barriers to achieving global for maternal health and eliminating of new child HIV infections

J. Turan; L. Nyblade; P. Monfiston PEPFAR; USAID; Health Policy Project (2012) C2

Working Paper No. 4

“I would love if there was a young woman to encourage us, to ease our anxiety which we would have if we were alone”: Adapting the Mothers2Mothers Mentor Mother Model for adolescent mothers living with

N. B. Carbone; J. Njala; D. J. Jackson; et al. PLOS One; PubMed.gov (2019) CC

PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217693 June 7, 2019

Young people in HIV care in Ukraine: a national survey on characteristics and service provision (version 1; peer review: 2 approved)

G. Kyselyova; V. Martsynovska; A. Volokha; H. Bailey et al. F1000Research (2019) C2

F1000Research 2019, 8:323 Last updated: 17 MAY 2019

Providing differentiated delivery to children and adolescents

A. Grimsrud; D.Walker; W. Ameyan; S. Brusamento Unicef; World Health Organization; Pata Pata Pata; IAS (2019) C_WHO

Child Survival Working Group Accessed: 18.10.2019