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Practical Pharmacy for Developing Countries No.24

Cepuch, C.; A. Ojoo, B. Amugune et al. Health Action International Africa (2010) CC

Issue No. 24

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Economically disadvantaged countries are under threat of failing to accomplish SDG 3 by 2030

Rüppel, J.; Rüppel T. (2019) CC

It is of utmost importance to low-income countries and some lower-middle income nations in the time of the SDG period that they are not on course to accomplish the health-related SDG 3 and its targets until 2030. If we honestly intend to support this goal and realize it for the people living in the ... more

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Priority Countries Consolidated Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Checklist and Dashbord

World Health Organization (2015)

The dashboard is based on assessments made by the International Preparedness Strengthening missions to 14 priority countries against each of the activities outlined in the WHO EVD Checklist at the time of each mission. Updates indicating progress against each of the indicators will be added on an o... more

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WHO recommends countries move away from the use of western blotting and line immunoassays in HIV testing strategies and algorithms. Policy brief

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

WHO recommends replacing western blotting and line immunoassays with simpler tests in HIV testing services. These simpler tests include rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) that can be used at the point-of-care, and enzyme immunoassays (EIAs). These tests get results to the client faster, produce accura... more

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WHO encourages countries to adapt HIV testing strategies in response to changing epidemic

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Policy brief. HIV testing services (HTS) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) have been scaled up substantially. It is estimated that, globally, nearly 80% of people with HIV now know their status. With the offer of immediate ART initiation and improved treatment options, access to and uptake of treatm... more

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Syria & the Surrounding Countries - ETC Situation Report #29 (Reporting Period: 05/06/2017 to 31/10/2017)

World Food Programme, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (2017) C1

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What can low-income countries do to provide relief for the poor and the vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Özler B. (2020) C3

As countries like the United States pass temporary legislation to cushion the massive blow that is on the horizon that is about to hit many of their citizens – poor and not poor – it is important to think about the tools available to governments of low-income countries, what kind of preparations... more

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Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on countries affected by HIV, tuberculosis and malaria

Global fund (2020) CC

While many of the countries hit by the COVID-19 in the first few months of the year are now beginning to relax lockdown measures as infection and death rates fall, in the regions most affected by HIV, TB and malaria, such as Africa, South Asia and Latin America, the pandemic continues to accelerate.... more

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Humanitarian crises monitoring: Coronavirus in developing countries: Secondary impacts

International Development Committee, Government of the United Kingdom (2021) CC

Developing countries face disastrous healthcare setbacks, hunger and huge international debt as covid-19’s ‘final wave’

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10 steps to community readiness: What countries should do to prepare communities for a COVID-19 vaccine, treatment or new test
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World Health Organization WHO; IFRC; UNICEF and GOARN (2021) C_WHO

8 February 2021 This document highlights 10 well established Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) principles that have proven their power. Together they put communities at the heart of the roll out of new vaccines, treatments and tests and promote trust, the critical ingredient for al... more

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Global AIDS Monitoring 2021 — Regional indicators to measure progress towards zero discrimination — Additional guidance for Latin American and Caribbean countries

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

All countries in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region are expected to report on these indicators for the year 2020.

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Resource package for strengthening countries’ health systems response to violence against women

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO

o support and guide countries and partners to strengthen a health systems response to address violence against women, WHO has produced several tools, including: • clinical and policy guidelines; • implementation handbooks and manuals; • training curriculum; • evidence-based polic... more

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List of Priority Medical Devices for the First Level of Care for the Countries of the Americas. Third version, November 2021

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO PAHO (2021) C_WHO

n the countries of the Region of the Americas, there are different forms of organization of health services at the first level of care. Some countries include certain laboratory, dental and diagnostic imaging practices in the first level of care, while other countries centralize these practices in t... more

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Provision of immunization services to refugees: guidance for host countries in the context of mass population movement from Ukraine

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Many of the countries in the European Region receiving refugees from Ukraine are already offering vaccination services to children and adults. This is important to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission among people travelling or living in close quarters, to protect the refugees from diseases th... more

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Guidance and tool for countries to identify priority areas for intervention

World Health Organization WHO Global Task Force on Cholera (2019) C_WHO

This document aims to provide guidance to countries in the identification of priority areas for intervention as part of the Situational Analysis of their National Cholera Control or Elimination Plans (NCPs).

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In which countries is Chagas disease found? - CHAGAS COALITION

Chagas Coalition Info Chagas (2020) CC

Chagas disease, which is caused by infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is known as the silent disease. An estimated 8 million people have the disease and most of them do not know that they are infected.

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Least Developed Countries Report 2022: The low-carbon transition and its daunting implications for structural transformation

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) CC

UNCTAD sets out actions to support least developed countries in the global low-carbon transition New report says COP27 is an opportunity to accelerate action to achieve mutually beneficial climate and development goals in the world's most vulnerable countries.

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Dengue Epidemiology and Countries at Risk of Dengue Transmisison

Dengue Virus Net (2020) CC

Dengue Epidemiology The first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the Jin Dynasty (265–420 AD) which referred to a “water poison” associated with flying insects. The first recognized Dengue epidemics occurred almost simultaneously in Asia, Afr... more

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Improving the capacity of countries to report on air quality in cities

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

In 2019, WHO estimated that 6.7 million premature deaths could be attributed to ambient and household air pollution from particulate matter (particles with a diameter less than 2.5 μm, PM2.5. Of the 4.2 million deaths attributed specifically to ambient air pollution exposures.

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Evaluating official development assistance-funded granting mechanisms for global health and development research that is initiated in high-income countries

Cassola, A.; Baral, P.; Røttingen, J.A.; Hoffman, S. BMC (2022) CC

Background: Several countries allocate official development assistance (ODA) for research on global health and development issues that is initiated in the donor country. The integration of such research within domestic research systems aligns with efforts to coordinate ODA investments with science, ... more

10 steps to community readiness: What countries should do to prepare communities for a COVID-19 vaccine, treatment or new test recommended

10 steps to community readiness: What countries should do to prepare communities for a COVID-19 vaccine, treatment or new test
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