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Meeting report of the WHO expert consultation on the definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

World Health Organization WHO (2021) CC

Meeting Report 27-29 October 2020 The overall goal of the meeting was to discuss recent changes in treatment regimens and diagnostics for drug-resistant TB and to determine how these impact on the definition of XDR-TB, with a view to revising this definition. The pre-existing definition of XDR-TB w... more

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Vaccine Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Potential Implications for the COVID-19 Response

Bhopal,S., and M. Nielsen British Medical Journal (2020) C1

The authors state that researchers, governments and global agencies should proceed with particular care in the evaluation of candidate SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in LMICs, with effective communication to build trust and avoid generation of vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine efficacy is often highly variable betwee... more

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Refugee and migrant health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: assessment tool for response at municipal level in the WHO European Region (2020)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This assessment tool is to support municipalities and local authorities in identifying the risks and vulnerabilities that refugees and migrants face and to identify gaps where possible methods to minimize the impact of the pandemic exist so that they can be prioritized within local policy processes.

Pandemic-related disruptions to schooling and impacts on learning proficiency indicators: A focus on the early grades

UNESCO (2021) CC

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, echoed the concerns of people and organisations around the world when he recently referred to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schooling as a ‘generational catastrophe’. .

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Disability considerations for COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

Available in Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish; WHO and UNICEF policy brief, 19 April 2021 Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, both directly because of infection, and indirectly because of restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus. Persons with di... more

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Statement of guidance and recommendations to African Union Member States on the epidemic modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) C1

Many African countries were amongst the most rapid to respond to the emerging threat of COVID-19, implementing large-scale interventions at very early stages of their epidemic. As demonstrated in this document using very simple models, this rapid mobilization and timeliness of implementing control m... more

South Sudan - Emergency Livelihood Response Programme 2021-2023

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2021) CC

The situation in South Sudan has proven to be unpredictable and volatile. New hotspots of violent conflict and civil unrest have continued to emerge and levels of severe acute food insecurity have become progressively worse. In addition to years of fighting and political instability, the country fac... more

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Wound Care Protocol

Medicins Sans Frontieres MSF (2018) C2

Wound care is a regular component of the package of care we offer in the majority of our health care facilities and represents a high volume of activities. The current practices in MSF projects are often based on the habits of each individual supervisor, the wound care material we off... more

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On the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines: Discussion paper with policy recommendations and compendium of resources

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2021) CC

The primary audience of this report with the compendium of resources are youth engagement practitioners in the Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies as well as technical experts and policy makers across the humanitarian landscape that thrive for meaningful interventions with and for children, ad... more

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Women’s Access to Health Care in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2021) CC

Over the past two decades, Afghanistan has depended on international donor support to fund essential services like health care. But this donor support has been falling for years and will likely to continue do so—perhaps precipitously—following the announcement by United States President Joe Bide... more

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Health workforce development and retention in Guinea: a policy analysis post-Ebola

van de Pas R., Kolie D., Delamou A., Van Damme W. BMC - Biomed Central (2019) CC

The state of the Guinean health workforce is one of the country’s bottlenecks in advancing health outcomes. The impact of the 2014–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak and resulting international attention has provided a policy window to invest in the workforce and reform the health system. This re... more

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Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO

Every country has been affected by COVID-19, with nearly a quarter of a billion cases and almost 5 million deaths reported globally as of end of September 2021. Despite the stunning speed with which highly effective and safe vaccines have been developed, new waves of disease are still pushin... more

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8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer

Siteman Cancer Center Locations (2021) C1

Breast cancer. Just reading those words can make many women worry. And that’s natural. Nearly everyone knows someone touched by the disease. But there is a lot of good news about breast cancer these days. Treatments keep getting better, and we know more than ever about ways to prevent the disease... more

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Nature, biodiversity and health: an overview of interconnections

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2021) C_WHO

Urbanization, land use, global trade and industrialization have led to profound and negative impacts on nature, biodiversity and ecosystems across the world. The ongoing depletion of natural resources not only afects environmental conditions but also has an enormous impact on the well-being and secu... more

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The shot, the message, and the messenger: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Latin America

Argote P., Barhan E., Zukerman Daly S. et al. NPJ (2021) CC

Herd immunity by mass vaccination offers the potential to substantially limit the continuing spread of COVID-19, but high levels of vaccine hesitancy threaten this goal. In a cross-country analysis of vaccine hesitant respondents across Latin America in January 2021, we experimentally tested how fiv... more

National Comprehensive Guidelines on HIV Testing Services

Kenya MInistry of Health, Community Development, Elderly and Children (2019) C1

These guidelines provide a framework for effective action to facilitate access to safe and ethical testing services for different population groups. The implementation of the a comprehensive approach, known as HIV Testing Services (HTS) is cardinal as an effective package of services that diminis... more

International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO) Surgical Practice Guidelines
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Campos Vieira Abib, S.de; et al. (2022) CC

ecancer has just published a comprehensive set of guidelines for paediatric cancer surgery, applicable to low and high resource settings across the world. You can read the guidelines online The guidelines have been developed by the International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO) with... more

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Air pollution and child health: prescribing clean air: summary

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

This report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between exposure to air pollution and adverse health effects in children. It is intended to inform and motivate individual and collective action by health care professionals to prevent damage to children’s health from exposure to ... more

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Good Agricultural Adaptation Practices in Ethiopia

Argaw M. (2015) CC

Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in East Africa. The future climate change projections suggest that temperature will rise and rainfall variability will increase with high unpredictability. Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to these changes, with concerns that the... more

Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map

Van Katwyk, S. R.; Grimshaw, J. M.; et al (2019) C2

BACKGROUND: Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidenc...e map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to reduce AMR, by identifying, describing, and assessing the full range of evaluated government policy options to reduce antimicrobial use in humans. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Seven databases were searched from inception to January 28, 2019, (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PAIS Index, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, and PubMed). We identified studies that (1) clearly described a government policy intervention aimed at reducing human antimicrobial use, and (2) applied a quantitative design to measure the impact. We found 69 unique evaluations of government policy interventions carried out across 4 of the 6 WHO regions. These evaluations included randomized controlled trials (n = 4), non-randomized controlled trials (n = 3), controlled before-and-after designs (n = 7), interrupted time series designs (n = 25), uncontrolled before-and-after designs (n = 18), descriptive designs (n = 10), and cohort designs (n = 2). From these we identified 17 unique policy options for governments to reduce the human use of antimicrobials. Many studies evaluated public awareness campaigns (n = 17) and antimicrobial guidelines (n = 13); however, others offered different policy options such as professional regulation, restricted reimbursement, pay for performance, and prescription requirements. Identifying these policies can inform the development of future policies and evaluations in different contexts and health systems. Limitations of our study include the possible omission of unpublished initiatives, and that policies not evaluated with respect to antimicrobial use have not been captured in this review. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first study to provide policy makers with synthesized evidence on specific government policy interventions addressing AMR. In the future, governments should ensure that AMR policy interventions are evaluated using rigorous study designs and that study results are published. more

International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO) Surgical Practice Guidelines recommended

International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO) Surgical Practice Guidelines
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