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Training and deployment of Key Informants (KIs) for case finding for children with severe visual impairment and blindness and Improving the follow up of children after cataract and other surgeries

Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology KCCO (2022) CC

The WHO estimates that 19 million children aged 15 years or younger are visually impaired. Of these, 1.4 million are irreversibly blind and need visual rehabilitation interventions for full psychological and personal development. The remainder have visual problems that could be prevented or treated.... more

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Ethical Decision-Making in Humanitarian Health in Situations of Extreme Violence. Report and Recommendations

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Syrian American Medical Society, et al. (2019) C1

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Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

World Health Organization (2010) C_WHO

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Where, Why And For How Much: Diversity In Career Preferences Of Future Health Workers In Rwanda

Lievens, T., Serneels, P. & Butera, D. Human Resources for Health (2008) C2

Health Systems for Outcomes Publication | The government of Rwanda has identified human resources for health as one of its policy priorities. This study aims to contribute to building a better understanding of health worker choice and behaviour, and to improve evidence based polcies.

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Men As Partners - A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators

EngenderHealth; PPASA (2001)

A manual intended for use by Men As Partners (MAP) educators in facilitating workshops on male involvement in reproductive health. Contains a variety of interactive educational activities on such topics as gender and sexuality, male and female sexual health, HIV and AIDS, and other sexually transmit... more

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Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎: a living guideline, 25 April 2022: updated chapter: mask use, part 1: health care settings
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

22 April 2022, This document provides updated interim recommendations on the use of masks by health workers providing care to patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. This update is prompted by new evidence around mask use and COVID-19 transmission, as well as the emergence of variants of conc... more

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WHO guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

These guidelines present evidence-based recommendations and best practice statements on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals, based on the WHO list of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine (WHO CIA List). These guidelines aim primarily to help preserve... more

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Following the money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources

Center for Global Development Center for Global Development (2007) C1

This report started with a simple question—“How can we tell how much funding is devoted to global health programs?”—and ended (more than two years later) with an answer that is far from simple. As those who have tried know well, tracking health-related funding is challenging in any setting, ... more

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Syrian Arab Republic: COVID-19 Humanitarian Update No. 25 as of 10 June 2021

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2021) C1

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Community-facility Linkages to Support the Scale up of Lifelong Treatment for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Living with HIV: A Conceptual Framework, Compendium of Promising Practices and Key Operat

Ackerman Gulaid, Laurie United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2015)

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WHO recommendation on advance misoprostol distribution to pregnant women for prevention of postpartum haemorrhage

World Health Organization (2020) C_WHO

The recommendation in this document thus supersedes the previous WHO recommendation for the prevention of PPH as published in the 2012 guideline, WHO recommendations for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage.

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Education Capacity Self-Assessment: Transforming the Education Humanitarian Response of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis (Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 2018)

UN Children's Fund, BRAC, Education Cluster, Norwegian Capacity (2018) CC

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COVID-19 in Latin America and the caribbean region: Symptoms and morbidities in the epidemiology of infection

Anaya-Covarrubias, J.Y.; et al. (2022) C1

Curr Opin Pharmacol . 2022 Apr;63:102203.doi: 10.1016/j.coph.2022.102203. Epub 2022 Feb 11. The COVID-19 pandemic has widespread economic and social effects on Latin America (LA) and the Caribbean (CA). This region, which has a high prevalence of chronic diseases, has been one of the most affected... more

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Namibia: “We don’t feel well treated”: Tuberculosis and the Indigenous San peoples of Namibia

Amnesty International (2021) C1

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, though it can affect any organ in the body. It can develop when bacteria spread through droplets in the air. TB can be fatal, but in many cases, TB is preventable and treatable. This report examines the human rights impact of... more

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A FAMILIAR FACE: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

This report presents the most current data on four specific forms of violence – violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. The statistics reveal that children expe... more

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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2015) CC

This report is a comprehensive statistical overview of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the 29 countries where the practice is concentrated. Analysis of the data reflects current perspectives on FGM/C, informed by the latest policy, programmatic and theoretical evidence.

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Six concrete measures to support women and girls in all their diversity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The report underscores that sexual and reproductive health and rights are often the first to be sacrificed during epidemics and that the gains of the past decade must be protected. The report also makes it clear that scarce resources must be focused on the most marginalized women and girls, includin... more

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The best start in life. Breastfeeding for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO European Region

World Health OrganizationEurope (2020) C_WHO

Healthy maternal nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, and optimal infant and young child nutrition are critical for appropriate growth and development, as well as reducing the risk of developing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), for both mothers and children. On 7–8 November 2018 the WHO Regional Of... more

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For every child, every right. The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019)

Thirty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child at a moment of rapid global change marked by the end of apartheid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth of the World Wide Web. These developments and more brought momentous and lasting evolut... more

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Framework for Tuberculosis control in large cities of Latin America and the Caribbean

World Health Organization; Pan American Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎: a living guideline, 25 April 2022: updated chapter: mask use, part 1: health care settings recommended

For every child, every right. The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads recommended

Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎: a living guideline, 25 April 2022: updated chapter: mask use, part 1: health care settings
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For every child, every right. The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads
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