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Effective Implementation of Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo: Situational Analysis

WHO; Africa CDC; World Economic Forum et al. PERC (2020) C_WHO
PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
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Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) CC
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Psychological toll of COVID-19 among healthcare provider— based on information as at 5 February 2021

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2021) C_WHO
Rapid Policy Brief
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Health workforce thresholds for supporting attainment of universal health coverage in the African Region

Health Workforce Team of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHOAFRO) WHO Regional Office for Africa (2021) C_WHO
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WHO COUNTRY COOPERATION STRATEGY 2010–2015 NAMIBIA

World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (2010) C_WHO
Second Generation, WHO Country Cooperation Strategy, 2010–2015, Namibia
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Raising an AIDS-free generation: Evaluation of the global fund orphans & vulnerable children programme

Department: Social Department Republic of South Africa; NRSAD (National Religious Association for Social Development); The Global Fund; et al. (2016) C2
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Effective Implementation of Public Health and Social Measures in Sudan: Situational Analysis

WHO; Africa CDC; World Economic Forum et al. PERC (2020) C_WHO
PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
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Monthly Bulletin - COVID-19 vaccination in the African Region: Issue No. 03

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO
April 2022
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Surveillance, prevention and control of leishmaniases in the European Union and its neighbouring countries

European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) (2022) C_CDC
This technical report presents the epidemiology of human and animal leishmaniases in the EU and its neighbouring countries and concludes that the disease remains widespread and underreported in many countries of southern Europe, northern Africa, and ... more
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Comprehensive Analytical Profile: Ethiopia

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (2015) C_WHO
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Key prevention and control interventions for reducing cancer burden in the WHO African Region

World Health Organization; Africa Region (2016) C_WHO
A handbook for leaders and managers
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Weekly Update on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Preparedness Activities in South Sudan No.48 , 12 August 2019

South Sudan Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office Africa Region (2019) C1
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Ghana Annual Report 2019

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa (2020) C_WHO
The WHO country office for Ghana, began the year 2019 with a 4-day staff retreat at the Busua Beach Resort in the Western Region from 04 to 08 March 2019. The theme for the retreat was ‘Impacting the Health and Lives of the people of Ghana through the Triple Billion Goal”. The staff outlined pri ... more
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COVID 19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 country study
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization WHO, et al. (2021) CC
Initial public health responses to control the pandemic focused on promoting protective behaviors among the general population, including frequent hand washing, physical distancing and the use of face masks in public spaces However, many saw these only as interim measures to reduce the spread of the ... more
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WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2012-2015 Ethiopia

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (2013) C_WHO
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Implementation of Option B+ for prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV: The Malawi Experience

World Health Organization; Regional Office for Africa (2014) C_WHO
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Chemicals of public health concern in the African Region and their management: Regional Assessment Report

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (2014)
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Zambia Annual Report 2015

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2016) C1
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Ethiopia: National Laboratory Accreditation Assessment for Clinical and Public Health Laboratories

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for Africa (2010) C_WHO
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WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2017-2021, Zambia

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2017) C_WHO
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Working together to promote health. WHO Tanzania Annual Report 2017

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2018) C_WHO
It provides insight into WHO’s work that aims to improve the health of the people of the United Republic of Tanzania in collaboration with key stakeholders.
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Repercussões psicológicas da COVID-19 entre prestadores de cuidados de saúde

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2021) C_WHO
Documento de informação sintético
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Zimbabwe multi-sectoral cholera elimination plan 2018-2028

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa; Cholera Secretariat Zimbabwe (2019) C_WHO
Multi-sectoral Cholera Elimination Plan
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Strengthening Nutrition Information Systems in Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Uganda and Zambia (EC-NIS Project)

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO
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Guide for the Medical, Veterinary and allied Professions

Bishop, G.; Durrheim, D.; Kloeck, P. et al. Department: Agriculture, Foresty and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa (2010) CC
Rabies is a disease of animals but too often the outcome is gauged in terms of human suffering and death. Despite this, in areas of the world where rabies is endemic there is often a lack of communication between veterinary and medical professionals, to the extent that the disease continues to thri ... more
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Senegal: Charting the path to malaria elimination

Programme national de lutte contre le paludisme (PNLP) - Sénégal, Speak up Africa, PATH, Zero Malarian starts with me (2018) C2
Senegal’s substantial and sustained progress against malaria is an inspiring public health success story, and a source of potential lessons for other countries on the path to elimination. This case study describes three major success factors—(1) outstanding leadership and partner engagement, (2) ... more
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Zambia National Malaria Indicator Survey MIS 2018

Ministry of Health, Central Statistics Office, PATH Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa, et al. (2018) CC
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Knowing your status: then and now - Realizing the potential of HIV self-testing

Karin Hatzold; E. Corbett; H. Ingold; et al. Unitaid (Innovation in Global Health); World Health Organization (WHO); HIV Self-Testing Africa Initiative (2018) C2
30th World AIDS Day Report STAR Initiative, Unitaid and World Health Organization December 2018
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Prevalence, Etiology, and Outcome of Sepsis among Critically Ill Patients in Malawi

Prin, M.; Onofrey, L.; Purcell, L; et al. (2020) CC2
Most of the global burden of sepsis occurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but the prevalence and etiology of sepsis in LMICs are not well understood. In particular, the lack of laboratory infrastructure in many LMICs has historically precluded an assessment of the pathogens leading to ... more
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TB and the NSP - Are we on track?

Spotlight NSP (2013) C2
NSP Review Engaging with South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB Edition 7 July – August 2013 A publication of the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27 GeneXpert: An imperfect rollout TB in South African prisons: Whe ... more
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Let us embrace: The role and significance of an integrated faith-based initiative for HIV and AIDS

African Religious Health Assests Programme ARHAP (2006) CC
Masangane Case Study The Vesper Society commissioned ARHAP to do research on the integrated Masangane HIV/AIDS programme affiliated with the Moravian Church in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Completed in 2006, this study aimed to understand the role o ... more
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The South African Triage Scale (SATS), Training Manual

Western Cape Government (2012) C1
The aim of the SATG was to produce a triage scale for use throughout South Africa. The group was multi-disciplinary and comprised doctors, nurses and paramedics. The result of the SATG’s activities is the South African Triage Scale (SATS), a physi ... more
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Cholera in the WHO African Region: Weekly Regional Cholera Bulletin: 17 July 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO
The cholera outbreak has affected 14 countries in the WHO African Region. The climate-induced natural disasters such as cyclone and flooding in the southern African region and drought in the Horn of Africa led to increase in cases of cholera in many ... more
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Dolutegravir Resistance in Malawi’s National HIV Treatment Program

van Ossterhout, J. J.; Chipungu, C.; Nkhoma, L. et all. (2022) CC2
Dolutegravir HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) data from Africa remain sparse. We reviewed HIVDR results of Malawians on dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (November 2020– September 2021). Of 6462 eligible clients, 33 samples were submitted to S ... more
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Ebola Myths, Realities and Structural Violence

ANNIEWILKINSON ANDMELISSA LEACH (2014)
The scale of West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has been attributed to the weak health systems of affected countries, their lack of resources, the mobility of communities and their inexperience in dealing with Ebola. This briefing for African Affairs a ... more
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Social Cash Transfers and Children’s Outcomes

Unicef (2019)
A Review of Evidence from Africa Accessed: 21.08.2019
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Ensuring health security in the African region: Emergency preparedness and response flagships progress report #4

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), in accordance with recommendations from various WHO committees, has developed three flagship initiatives to support Member States in the African region to prepare for, detect and r ... more
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Risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren who participated in a casecontrol study in urban Uganda

Mpairwe, H.; Namutebi, M.; Nkurunungi, G. et al. eLife (2019) CC
Data on asthma aetiology in Africa are scarce. We investigated the risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren (5–17 years) in urban Uganda. We conducted a case-control study, among 555 cases and 1115 controls. Asthma was diagnosed by study clini ... more
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Integration stigma reduction into HIV programming

International HIVAIDS; Sida; Norad (2011) C2
Lessons from the Africa Regional Stigma Training Programme Supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries
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Effects of BCG on COVID-19 — based on information as of 25 December 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
WHO Regional Office for Africa
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Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: the bumpy road to elimination

Hasker E, Hope A, Bottieau E. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. (2022) C2
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis is a deadly infectious disease affecting West and Central Africa, South Sudan and Uganda, and transmitted between humans by tsetse flies. The disease has caused several major epidemics, the latest one in the 1 ... more
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Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience

Gerald Keusch, Keith McAdam, Patricia Cuff, Michelle Mancher, and Emily R. Busta National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) C1
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separat ... more
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WHO AFRO Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, Week 13: 25 - 31 March 2019; Data as reported by 17:00; 31 March 2019

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
Response to the tropical cyclone in southern Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Meningitis outbreak in Togo Lassa fever outbreak in Liberia.
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Politics, Governance, and Reconstruction in Yemen

The Project on Middle East Political Science POMEPS (2018)
Yemen’s war has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes . In September 2014, the Ansarallah (Houthi) movement allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to seize control over the capital city Sana’a and renegotiate Yemen’s fragile power-sharing agreement, and then seve ... more
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Weak surveillance and policy attention to cancer in global health: the example of Mozambique

Lorenzoni, C; Oliveras, Laura; Vilajeliu, A, et al. (2018) CC
Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa due to population growth, ageing and westernisation of lifestyles. In this piece, we use data from Mozambique over a 50-year period to illustrate cancer epidemiological trends in low ... more
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Treatment of Malaria (Guidelines for Clinicians)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2019) C_CDC
Because malaria cases are seen relatively rarely in North America, misdiagnosis by clinicians and laboratorians has been a commonly documented problem in published reports. However, malaria may be a common illness in areas where it is transmitted an ... more
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Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan 2019 - 2024

Uganda Government (OPM) (2022) CC
Uganda hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees making it Africa’s largest refugee hosting country and one of the five largest refugee hosting countries in the world. Most recently, throughout 2016- 2018, Uganda was impacted by three parallel emer ... more
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Conceptual and Operational Framework of Onchocerciasis Elimination with Ivermectin Treatment

World Health Organization WHO; African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control APOC (2010) C_WHO
Onchocerciasis used to be an important public health problem in Africa, with over 37 million people infected and millions suffering from debilitating skin disease, terrible itching, impaired vision and blindness. But the epidemiological situation h ... more
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Rabies epidemiology, prevention and control in Nigeria: Scoping progress towards elimination

Mshelbwala, P.; Weese, J.; Sanni-Adeniyi, O. et al. PLoS Neglected Tropical diseases (2021) CC
Human rabies remains a significant public health problem in Africa with outbreaks reported in most countries. In Nigeria–the most populous country in Africa–rabies causes a significant public he ... more
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FAO-WFP early warning analysis of acute food insecurity hotspots - July 2020

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO; World Food Programme WFP (2020) CC
A new reportshows that people in some 25 countries are set to face devasting levels of hunger in coming months due to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the greatest concentration of need is in Africa, countries in Latin America and the C ... more
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Gambia: Ebola Virus preparedness Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF Operation n° MDRGM009

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2015)
In February 2014, there was an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, which has spread to Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone causing untold hardship and hundreds of deaths in these countries. As of 6 March 2015, a total of 24,282 cases, and 9,976 deaths, which were attrib ... more
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Fighting Ebola with Information

Fast, Larissa and Adele Waugaman USAID (2016) CC
Learning from the Use of Data, Information, and Digital Technologies in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response
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UNICEF RWANDA Country Profile

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2018)
This document provides a snapshot view of Rwanda in terms of key socio-economic indicators, political and economic context and the situation of children. It also gives an overview of UNICEF's Country Programme and key achievements. Rwanda has made significant progress towards economic prosperity an ... more
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Uganda: Ebola Preparedness Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) - DREF Operation n° MDRUG041

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2018) C1
Following the declaration of the 9th Ebola Disease Outbreak (EVD) on 8 May 2018 by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health, the WHO has raised the alert for neighbouring countries of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which share extensive borders, hosting DRC refugees and ... more
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Zambia: Drought (Food Insecurity) Emergency Appeal n° MDRZM012

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2019) C1
A “catastrophic” combination of drought and communities’ declining resilience has left an estimated 2.3 million people facing severe acute food insecurity – up from an estimate of 1.7 million people a month ago. Communities across southern Afric ... more
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Not all that bleeds is Ebola
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International Rescue Committee (2020) C1
How has the DRC Ebola outbreak impacted Sexual and Reproductive Health in North-Kivu? Recommendations (more specifics found in the assessment): 1. Sexual and reproductive health needs and services are to be embedded in the EVD response from the ou ... more
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A profile of female genital mutilation in Kenya

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF
Kenya is home to 4 million girls and women who have experienced FGM. Overall, 21 per cent of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years have undergone the practice, varying from 98 per cent in the North Eastern region to 1 per cent in the Western region
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Multi-country outbreak of mpox, External situation report #42- 9 November 2024

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO
This is the 42nd situation report for the multi-country outbreak of mpox, which provides an update on the epidemiological situation of mpox in Africa (including countries in the WHO African Region and some countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean ... more
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Influenza Surveillance Among Children With Pneumonia Admitted to a District Hospital in Coastal Kenya, 2007–2010

Clayton O. Onyango, Regina Njeru, Sidi Kazungu et al. (2012) CC
J Infect Dis. (2012) 206 (suppl. 1): S61-S67 Influenza data gaps in sub-Saharan Africa include incidence, case fatality, seasonal patterns, and associations with prevalent disorders. The authors found that the burden of influenza was small during 2 ... more
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WFP El Niño 2015-2016: Preparedness and Response, Situation Report #4, 24 May 2016

World Food Programme (2016) C1
IN NUMBERS 60 MILLION people affected globally at present. 32 MILLION people food insecure in Southern Africa. 10.2 MILLION people in Ethiopia need emergency food assistance. 50 PERCENT crop losses in Haiti due to El Niño-influenc ... more
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World: 2016-2017 ENSO Overview (As of 5 July 2016)

World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Security Cluster (2016) C1
Globally, millions of vulnerable people are experiencing increased hunger and poverty due to droughts, floods, storms and extreme temperature fluctuations as a result of a climatic occurrence: El Niño. This phenomenon is not an individual weather event but a climate pattern which occurs every two t ... more
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Improving Infection Prevention and Control Practices at Health Facilities in Resource-Limited Settings
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Wonder Goredema Jane Briggs Mupela Ntengu, et al. USAID; SIAPS (2016) C1
SIAPS Technical Report. This report summarizes key accomplishments and lessons learned in implementing SIAPS’ approach to improving IPC practices in four countries: South Africa, Namibia, Jordan, and Ethiopia. All activities address SIAPS’s over ... more
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Comparison of sensitivity and specificity of three diagnostic tests to detect Schistosoma mansoni infections in school children in Mwanza Region, Tanzania

Fuss, A.; H.D. Mazigo; D. Tappe, C.Kasang, A. Mueller (2018) CC
PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202499. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202499 This was a school-based cross-sectional study conducted in 2015 among 305 school children aged 7–16 years from two primary schools located in Ilemela and Magu Districts, north ... more
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Rationality of drug prescriptions in rural health centres in Burkina Faso

Krause G., M. Borchert, J. Benzler et al. Health policy and planning (1999) C2
Burkina Faso has approximately 10.5 million inhabitants and is divided into 30 provinces. The study took place in the districts of Tougan, Nouna, and Solenzo, in provinces Sourou and Kossi, in north-west Burkina Faso. There is one medical centre in ... more
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Resistant pathogens

BUKO Pharma-Kampagne (2020) C2
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne has investigated the causes and consequences of antibiotic resistance in India, South Africa, Tanzania and Germany. Together with our partners we collected data and did interviews with numerous stakeholders. The outcome is prese ... more
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo Refugee Response Plan January-December 2021

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2021) CC
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most complex and long-standing humanitarian crises in Africa. By the end of 2020, some 940,421 Congolese refugees and asylum seekers were hosted across the African continent. Ongoing conflicts ... more
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A global concern

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2016) C_UNICEF
This brochure draws on data from more than 90 nationally representative surveys making it the most up-to-date compilation of statistics on FGM/C. Available data show that the practice of FGM/C is highly concentrated in a swath of countries from the Atlantic coast to the Horn of ... more
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: What might the future hold?

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2014) C_UNICEF
By 2050, nearly 1 in 3 births worldwide will occur in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM/C is concentrated, and nearly 500 million more girls and women will be living in these countries than there are today. In Somalia alon ... more
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Serie «de la intención a la acción»: Reflexiones regionales. Análisis de las consultas regionales informales con personas que viven con enfermedades no transmisibles y trastornos mentales

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO
El presente informe incluye análisis de consultas informales en cinco de las regiones de la OMS: la Región de África, la Región de las Américas (donde se realizaron consultas separadas para el Caribe y América del Norte, y para América Latina ... more
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The Somali strategy for Cholera prevention and control 2020-2024
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Government of SomaliaWorld Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO
Cholera is an acute gastrointestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae serogroup O1 or O139, and is often linked to unsafe drinking water, lack of proper sanitation and personal hygiene. It adversely affects mostly the poor and vulnerable populations in countries, which are already d ... more
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Serie «de la intención a la acción»: Reflexiones regionales. Análisis de las consultas regionales informales con personas que viven con enfermedades no transmisibles y trastornos mentales 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO
El presente informe incluye análisis de consultas informales en cinco de las regiones de la OMS: la Región de África, la Región de las Américas (donde se realizaron consultas separadas para el Caribe y América del Norte, y para América Latina ... more
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Considerations for border health and points of entry for mpox: interim guidance

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO
On 14 August 2024, the Director-General of the World Health Organization determined that the upsurge of mpox in a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a new public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the Internationa ... more
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Beyond borders. How to make the global compacts on migration and refugees work for uprooted children

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2017) CC
The report presents successful case studies from around the world, including the implementation of minimum protection standards for refugee children in Germany, cross border child protection systems in West Africa, and finding alternatives to the de ... more
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Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The state of the world's human rights
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Amnesty International (2022) C1
mnesty International’s annual report on the state of the world’s human rights in 2021, published in March 2022, shows that promises to “build back better” after the Covid-19 pandemic were little more than lip service. Hopes of global cooperation withered in the face of vaccine hoarding and c ... more
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The path that ends AIDS: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2023
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2023) CC
This report makes clear that there is a path to end AIDS. Taking that path will help ensure preparedness to address other pandemic challenges, and advance progress across the Sustainable Development Goals. The data and real-world examples in the report make it very clear what that path is. It is not ... more
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Global air pollution exposure and poverty

Rentschler, J.; Leonova, N. Nature Communications (2023) CC
Air pollution is one of the leading causes of health complications and mortality worldwide, especially affecting lower-income groups, who tend to be more exposed and vulnerable. This study documents the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and poverty in 211 countries and territories. ... more
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State of the Global Climate 2020

World Meteorological Organization (2020) C1
Concentrations of the major greenhouse gases, CO2 , CH4 , and N2 O, continued to increase despite the temporary reduction in emissions in 2020 related to measures taken in response to COVID-19. 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record. The past six years, including 2020, have been the si ... more
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Modelling the effects of global climate change on Chikungunya transmission in the 21st century

Tjaden, N.B.; J.E. Suk, D. Fischer et al. Nature Scientific Reports (2017) CC
The arrival and rapid spread of the mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya across the Americas is one of the most significant public health developments of recent years, preceding and mirroring the subsequent spread of Zika. Globalization in trade and travel can lead to the importation of these vi ... more
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Communication Risk in Public Health Emergencies
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO
A WHO Guideline for Emergency Risk Communication (ERC) policy and practice. Recent public health emergencies, such as the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (2014–2015), the emergence of the Zika virus syndrome in 2015–2016 and multi- ... more
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Zero by 30: the global strategic plan to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO
An estimated 59 000 people die from rabies each year. That’s one person every nine minutes of every day, 40% of whom are children living in Asia and Africa. As dog bites cause almost all human cases, we can prevent rabies deaths by increasing awar ... more
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Living conditions among people with disability in Botswana

Arne H. Eide & Tlamelo Mmatli SINTEF Technology and Society Health Research (2016) C1
This is a report from a National, representative household survey carried out in Botswana in 2012 – 2014. The study was carried out on behalf of the Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Disabled Persons (FFO), Southern Africa Federation of the ... more
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Social Science in Humanitarian Action Key considerations: Ebola preparedness and readiness in Goma, DRC

Peyton, D.; I. Gercama and J. Bedford Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform (2019) C1
This brief summarises key considerations about the social, political and economic context of Goma in relation to the outbreak of Ebola in the DRC as of March 2019. Goma is the administrative capital of North Kivu province and a major urban centre in ... more
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Zambia Refugees Economies: Livelihoods and Challenges

M. Nyamazana, G. Koyi, P. Funjika and E. Chibwili UNHCR; Institute of Economic and Social Research (INESOR), University of Zambia; Refugee Studies Centre, UK (2017) C1
The study on refugee economies shows that refugees and former refugees are contributing positively to Zambia’s economy in various ways and have the potential to contribute even further if legal and other obstacles are removed. The study targeted mainly Congolese, Burundian, Somali, and Rwandan re ... more
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Optimized Supportive Care for Ebola Virus Disease
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World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
Clinical management standard operating procedures. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a life-threatening multisystem illness associated with fever and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms that frequently leads to hypovolaemia, metabolic acidosis, hypoglycaemia, and multi-organ failure. The prolonged 2013–201 ... more
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WHO AFRO Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, Week 27: 1 - 7 July 2019; Data as reported by 17:00; 7 July 2019

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in Angola Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of the Congo Dengue fever in Côte d’Ivoire Humanitarian crisis in north-east Nigeria.
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Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study

Masumbuko ClaudeK, Underschultz J,Hawkes MT (2019) CC
PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104. The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o ... more
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Finding community-led solutions to COVID-19
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RCCE technical working group (2020) C1
An interagency guidance note on working with communities in high density settings to plan local approaches to preventing and managing COVID-19. This guidance note is intended for anyone involved in COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) efforts in complex and fragile settings in ... more
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Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

Wilkinson, J.L.; A.B. A. Boxall, D. W. Kolpin, et al. (2022) CC
PNAS 119 (8) e2113947119 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113947119 Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, m ... more
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Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being

Project Drawdown (2022) CC
Project Drawdown (2022) provides evidence of how climate solutions can also be win-win opportunities for meeting development and human well-being needs while boosting prosperity for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report ... more
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Capacity building in public health nutrition

Geissler, C. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2015) CC
The aim of the present paper is to review capacity building in public health nutrition (PHN), the need for which has been stressed for many years by a range of academics, national and international organisations. Although great strides have been made worldwide in the science of nutrition, there rema ... more
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Every child alive: The urgent need to end newborn deaths

UNICEF (2018)
Globally, in low-income countries, the average newborn mortality rate is 27 deaths per 1,000 births, the report says. In high-income countries, that rate is 3 deaths per 1,000. Newborns from the riskiest places to give birth are up to 50 times more likely to die than those from the safest places.
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Integration of HIV testing and linkage in family planning and contraception services: implementation brief

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO
This implementation brief addresses integration of HIV testing services into family planning (FP) services. It is intended as a practical resource for national health programmes seeking to introduce or scale up HIV testing and linkage to HIV prevention, sexually transmitted infection, and antiretrov ... more
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Visceral leishmaniasis: a global overview

Wamai, R.; Khan, J.; McGloin, J.; Ziaggi, G. (2020) CC
J Glob Health Sci. 2020 Jun;2(1):e3. A group of enzootic and zoonotic protozoan infections, the leishmaniases constitute among the most severely neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and are found in all continents except Oceania. Representing the most common infectious diseases, NTDs comprise an open- ... more
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Global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies. Report

World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO
Rabies remains an under-reported neglected zoonosis with a case-fatality rate of almost 100% in humans and animals. Dog-mediated human rabies causes tens of thousands of human deaths annually despite being 100% preventable. More than 95% of human cases are caused by the bite of a rabies-infected dog ... more
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Rabies: rationale for investing in the global elimination of dog-mediated human rabies

World Organisation for Animal Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2015) C_WHO
Rabies is a global public health problem with important socioeconomic impacts. Human rabies is preventable; almost all cases are transmitted through the bite of a rabid dog. Elimination of human rabies is possible. Technical support and tools are available. This report covers:
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A World at Risk

Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (2019) C_WHO
Annual report on global preparednessfor health emergencies The next pandemic is not a question of if, but when—and the world is woefully unprepared, according to the first annual report from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. The WHO and the World Bank convened the independent group after ... more
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The social context of schistosomiasis and its control

Brunn, B.; Aagaard-Hansen, J.; Watts, S. World Health Organization WHO (2008) C_WHO
Schistosomiasis is widely recognized as a disease that is socially determined. An understanding of the social and behavioural factors linked to disease transmission and control should play a vital role in designing policies and strategies for schistosomiasis prevention and control. To this must be a ... more
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Interregional meeting on leishmaniasis among neighbouring endemic countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, African and European regions

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
An interregional meeting on leishmaniasis among neighbouring endemic countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, African and European regions was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Amman, Jordan, from 23 to 25 September 2018. The meeting w ... more
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The social context of schistosomiasis and its control: an introduction and annotated bibliography

Bruun, B.; Aagaard-Hansen, J.; Watts, S. World Health Organization WHO; Institutional Repository for Information Sharing iris (2008) C_WHO
Schistosomiasis is widely recognized as a disease that is socially determined. An understanding of the social and behavioural factors linked to disease transmission and control should play a vital role in designing policies and strategies for schistosomiasis prevention and control. To this must b ... more
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United against Rabies Collaboration

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically dis ... more