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National Institute on Drug Abuse NIH Online Resources

National Institute of Mental Health NIH (2019) CC

Time to Act. Pragmatic and concrete actions for prevention of non-medical use of controlled substances, treatment of drug use disorders, social protection and health care for people affected

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2019) CC

UNGASS 2016 OUTCOME IMPLEMENTATION

Substance use considerations during #COVID19

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterreanan (2020) CC

Consequences of COVID-19 crisis for persons with HIV: the impact of social determinants of health

Waterfeld, K.C.; et al. (2021) CC

BMC Public Health (2021) 21:299 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10296-9

The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook

Lacy-Nicholas, J.; Marten, R.; Crosbie, E.; Moodie,R. The Lancet Global Health (2022) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2022 Published Online May 24, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00185-1 Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests— their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the expense of public h ... more

Best Practice Guidelines on Emergency Surgical Care in Disaster Situations

World Health Organization WHO, EHT, CPR (2005)

These guidelines have been extracted from the WHO manual Surgical Care at the District Hospital (SCDH), which is a part of the WHO Integrated Management Package on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMPEESC). Refer for details on anaesthesia, head, gunshot and landmine injuries in chapters

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, 2015

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015) CC

Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents

Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents Department of Health and Human Services (2019) C2

Provide guidance to HIV care practitioners on the optimal use of antiretroviral (ARV) agents for the treatment of HIV infection in adults and adolescents.

IMAI district clinician manual: hospital care for adolescents and adults: guidelines for the management of illnesses with limited-resources. Vol. 2
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World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

The manual is written for clinicians working at the district hospital (first-level referral care) who diagnose and manage sick adolescents and adults in resource constrained settings. It aims to support clinical reasoning, and to provide an effective clinical approach and protocols for the managemen ... more

Zambia: Guidelines for the programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

National TBLeprosy Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Zambia (2013) C1

Uganda: The National Policy Guidelines and Service Standards for Reproductive Health Services

Reproductive Health Division Community Health Department Ministry of Health Uganda (2002)

Uganda: National Adolescent Health Policy

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2004)

Syrian Medical Voices from the Ground: The Ordeal of Syria's Healthcare Professionals

Center for Pubic Health and Human Rights; John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Syrian American Medical Society (2015)

This report recounts the experiences of 27 physicians and other health workers in Syria (all but two of them Syrian) who struggle to provide trauma care and health services to a population under assault.

A review of the evidence: suicide among women in Nepal

Ajit Pradhan, Pradeep Poudel, Deborah Thomas, Sarah Barnett (2011)

Thirtieth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia (S/2015/620)

Un Security Council (2015) CC

Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders

Vikram Patel, Dan Chisholm, Tarun Dua et al. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development The World Bank (2016) CC

Disease Control Priorities, 3rdEdition: Volume 4. Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-beingof individuals, families, and societies is large ... more

The 2014 Hepatology Society of the Philippines Consensus Statements on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatitis C

Stephen N. Wong, Jane R. Campos, Ian Homer Y. Cua et al. Hepatology Society of the Philippines (HSP) (2006) C1