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Botswana - Mental Health Atlas

World Health Organization (2011)

Mental Health Atlas 2011 - Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization

Take Steps to Control TB When You Have HIV

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for HIVAIDS; TB Prevention; et al. (2014) C_CDC

Positive health, dignity and prevention for women and their babies. Flipchart

Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) (2018) C1

A treatment literacy guide for pregnant women and mothers living with HIV
Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention for Women and their Babies is intended for use by networks of women living with HIV, women’s groups, peer educators and others wishing to help guide women living with HIV t... more

Indonesia WHO Mental Health Profile

World Health Organization (WHO) (2011) C_WHO

Generalized anxiety disorder: When worry gets out of control

National Institute of Mental Health NIMH (2016) C1

Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. You might worry about things like health, money, or family problems. But people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) feel extremely worried or feel nervous about these and other things—even when there is little or no reason to worry about the... more

Improving health and learning through better water, sanitation and hygiene in schools

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe; UNICEF; UNESCO (2019) C_WHO

An information package for school staff

Antibiotics Aren’t Always the Answer.

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019) C_CDC

Brochure for Patients and General Public

Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic

Feng,S.; Chen Shen, Nan Xia, et al. (2020) C2

Lancet Respir Med 2020Published OnlineMarch 20, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30134-

Managing stress and anger — COVID-19

Hesperian (2020) CC

Being away from our regular routines and the people we love can be hard. Lost income, crowded living spaces, violence, fear, uncertainty, and living with depression or other mental health problems can make it even harder. We will be living with these difficulties for a long time as we adjust to COVI... more

Life Skills through Drama: Equipping adolescent girls with key knowledge and skills to help them to mitigate, prevent and respond to Gender Based Violence

International Rescue Committee IRC (2021) CC

The Life Skills through Drama curriculum aims at promoting the protection of Syrian and Lebanese adolescent girls from Gender Based Violence and enhancing their psychosocial wellbeing. This curriculum addresses the basic life skills that adolescent girls living in difficult conditions in any similar... more

Managing family risk: A facilitator’s toolbox for empowering families to manage risks during COVID-19. Part 1

World Health Organization WHO; IFRC; UNICEF and GOARN (2021) C_WHO

People-centered approaches that help communities maintain protective behaviours and follow guidelines set out by public health and government agencies are more important than ever. The evidence is clear, communities play a role in preventing and controlling epidemics and they are best able to take a... more

Asthma and pregnancy

National Asthma Education Programme (2012) CC2

Asthma can be a serious disease, but if you understand the disease and take the right medication to control it, you should have no problems or symptoms due to your asthma, even when you are pregnant. To be free from asthma attacks, you should also check your lung function and use an action plan... more

National Training Package on Paediatric HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment. Participants Handbook. Module 5: Adherence to Medication for Children and Adolescents

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, National AIDS Control Programme, Tanzania (2015) C1

A world free of TB starts with a community free of TB!

TB Alliance (2017) C2

Childhood tuberculosis activity book Accessed November 2017

Looking after your mental health when living with HIV

Avert; Health & care information you can trust (2019) C2

Accessed: 21.10.2019

COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Sameeksha
recommended

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2021) C_WHO

COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Sameeksha (Hindi; review) compiles recent key IPC resources on COVID from scientific journals, WHO guidelines, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare /Government of India guidelines, and trainings and IPC resources. The intended target audience for this inclu... more

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) training: Online training
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

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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 health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...gs 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