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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
Situation Analaysis and Needs Assessment
The social protection landscape for people affected by TB in the WHO South-East Asia Region
Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e415–25
The Lancet. Published Online December 22, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32621-6. Open Access
Tokar et al. Health Research Policy and Systems (2019) 17:23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-019-0415-4
October 2018 HIV testing services
Policy July 2012 Working Paper No. 3
The new WHO guidelines recommend that people living with HIV be started on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as soon as possible after being diagnosed. Currently, many people living with the virus globally must wait until their CD4 counts fall to 500 to start treatment. According to the WHO, the move to early ... more
Regional Eastern European and Central Asian project (TB-REP) Copenhagen, Denmark, 26–28 April 2016
A survey of prevention, testing and treatment policies and practices
Stop TB Partnership
In this review, the editors will investigate the impact of eight WASH interventions in preventing (reducing the risk of) and controlling outbreaks ... more
THELANCETID-D-16-00800 S1473-3099(16)30318-8
Report of a global meeting on yaws eradication surveillance, monitoring and evaluation: Geneva, 29–30 January 2018. World Health Organization.
Lancet Glob Health 2018, Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30387-5
The emergence and transmission of zoonotic diseases are driven by complex interactions between health, environmental, and socio-political systems. ... more
WHO Technical Series 971
Connecting global priorities: biodiversity and human health: a state of knowledge review
Lancet Glob Health 2015; 385: e387–95. Open Access

56th directing council - 70th session of the regional committee of WHO for the Americas

Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); Observatorio Regional de Recursos Humanos de Salud (2018) C_WHO
Washington, D.C., USA, 23-27 September 2018 Provisional Agenda Item 4.6 CD56/10, Rev. 1 31 August 2018 Original: Spanish
COVID-19 has altered health sector capacity in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Cost data to inform evidence-based priority setting are urgently needed. Consequently, in this paper, we calculate the full economic health sector costs ... more
Policy statement.
This paper reviews the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use ... more
1 March 2021 This roadmap aims to define the key questions users should consider to assess indoor ventilation and the major steps needed to reach recommended ventilation levels or simply improve indoor air quality (IAQ) in order to reduce the risk ... more
Lancet Infect Dis 2022; 22: 222–4
Handbook 2

Raising Clean Hands

UNICEF Joint Call to Action for WASH in Schools (2012) C_UNICEF
Advancing Health, Learning and Equity through WASH in Schools
Handbook 1
Blueprint for EECA countries, first edition
13280–13285 / PNAS / September 9, 2008 / vol. 105 / no. 36

Inclusive Education is for Everyone

Sian Tesni and Anais Keenon Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2014)
CBM and the Global Campaign for Education 2014
Training Modules for climate change and Health - WHO
A guide for doctors providing health services for children. 2nd edition
How should humanitarian organisations prepare and respond to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries? This Rapid Learning Review outlines 14 actions, insights ... more
Guidance for health workers
With hundreds of illustrations and clear instructions, A Community Guide to Environmental Health helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, ... more
Over nine years of protracted and violent conflict in Syria has decimated its health system,killed an estimated 586,000 people and forcibly displac ... more
New research exposes how women and children are disproportionally affected by climate migration, which puts them at greater risk of gender-based violence, child labour ... more

Children and AIDS

Unicef; UNAIDS; World Health Organization; UNFPA (2008)
Third Stocktaking Report, 2008 Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS
The global burden of disease due to mental disorders continues to rise, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In addition to causing a large proportion ... more
Updated 28 December 2020
The African Regional Convening of the Global Initiative to Support Parents (GISP) stimulated the interest or engagement of almost 1500 individuals from 742 unique organizations in the fields ... more
Principles and Target Product Criteria. Roadmap January 12, 2015
Summary of key informant interviews with representatives of organizations providing, funding, or supporting WASH services to refugee populations

Implementing Comprehensive HIV and HCV Programmes with People Who Inject Drugs

UNAIDS, UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime); World Health Organization; et al. (2017) C2
Practical Guidance for collaborative interventions
The impact of maternal mental health problems on infants in high income countries has been identified mostly in terms of psychosocial and emotional ... more
Ensuring mental health and well-being has become a worldwide imperative and an important target of the Sustainable Development Goals. But in all ... more
These guidelines provide evidence-based guidance on the use of peripartum antiviral prophylaxis in HBsAg-positive pregnant women for the prevention of ... more
Desk Review and Recommendations for Private Sector Engagement
Guidelines June 2017 HIV strategic information for impact
Despite recent global declines, under-five mortality remains high in many of the poorest countries. Barriers to timely quality care, including user fees, distance to facilities and the availabilit ... more
Septìeme Édition 2019
People with disabilities experience significant health inequalities. In Malawi, where most individuals live in low-income rural settings, many of these inequalities are exacerbated by restricted access to health care services. This qualitative study ... more
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness (2). It is characterized by repeated conjunctival infection with particular strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. This scars the conjunctivae ... more
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected ... more
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 20 ... more
6 July 2021. The “WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis - Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection 2021 update” is the latest document replacing the one issued in 2020. Three new nucleic acid amplification test (NA ... more

Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

EuroHealth Observer European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Eurostation (2020) C2
The focus of the current quarterly edition of Eurohealth (from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies) is Antimicrobial Resistance ... more
A compendium of TB REACH case studies, lessons learned and a monitoring and evaluation framework. Accessed November 2017.
The attainment of Zambia’s goal of being a prosperous and middle-income country by 2030 as stipulated in its Vision 2030 is dependent on among ot ... more
Guidelines and tools for Health Professionals
The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series consists of country-based reviews that provide a detailed description of a health system and ... more
BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3086 Using infectious diseases sensitive to climate as indicators of climate change helps stimulate and inform public health responses
The Community Action Research on Disability (CARD) programme in Uganda embraced and modified the EDR approach, recognising the need for including people with disability in the research process from ... more
MAMI refers to the management of small and nutritionally at risk infants under six months of age (infants u6m) ... more
A global Review of evidence and practice
Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders, for annexes see http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2012/tb_hiv_policy_9789241503006/en/
Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders Annexes for webposting and CD-Rom dis ... more
The Ukrainian translation of the Handbook was done by the Rev Marian and Dr Roman Curkowskyj Foundation. Established in 1990 in Toronto, Canada, the Foundation supports the advancement ... more
A framework for planning, developing and implementing solutions with and for young people. The ... more
This special issue on Newborn Health in Global Health Action is being launched to share the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package of newborn care that involves families, community h ... more
Methodological field approaches for scientists with a basic background in entomology to prepare and implement a yellow fever entomological assessment during outbreaks
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 47–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz122 Colombia has an underreporting of 30% ... more

Epilepsy

World Health Organization (2004) C_WHO
Brief review of selected topics The following pages provide a focus on selected areas in relation to neurology. The specialists who contributed the reviews are listed in the Project Team and Partn ... more
Public Health is the science field dedicated to promoting health and well-being, and preventing disease within the human population to ultimately increase the quality ... more
The WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment is the companion, implementation guide to the 2020 WHO guidelines on TB preventive treatment.[1] Just as these guidelines are the first to be released under the rubric of ... more
Bull World Health Organ 2018;96:450–461 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.206466 The aim of our study was to determine whether an intervention designed to involve the male partners of preg ... more
This handbook builds on lessons learned from surveys implemented 2015-2017 and advice provided by the Global task force on TB patient cost surveys. It provides a standardized methodology for conduct ... more
TNew data from the World Health Organization reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted malaria services, leading to a marked increase in cases and deaths. According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million m ... more