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Bearing the brunt: The impact of COVID-19 on older people in low- and middle-income countries – insights from 2020. Summary (Arabic)

HelpAge (2021) C1

تحمل العبء الأكبر على كبار السن في الدول ذات الدخل 19تأثير جائحة الكوفيد-2020المتدني والمتوسط - رؤى من عام The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-1... more

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Setting Standards for Burn Care Services in Low and Middle Income Countries

Potokra, T.; et al. interburns (2013) CC

Burns are a global public health problem, accounting for close to 200,000 deaths annually. The majority of these occur in low- and middle-income countries, where a number of constraints complicate the public health task of addressing burns. While the primary prevention of burns in low- and middle-in... more

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COVID-19 Nepal: Preparedness and Response Plan

UN Country Team in Nepal (2020) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic is having far reaching impacts, well beyond the health crisis and needs, with the most severe impacts experienced in the poorest countries and those most vulnerable to humanitarian crises including natural disasters, such as Nepal.

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Child Protection Case Management Training Manual

The Government of Malawi PEPFAR; UNICEF (2017) C1

This five-day child protection case management training manual was developed to meet the needs of community child protection workers and other social workers working in tandem with the justice, health and law enforcement systems in Malawi.

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A Textbook of Gynecology for Less-Resourced Locations

Heleen van Beekhuizen and Regine Unkels The Global Library of Women’s Medicine by Sapiens Publishing (2012)

This textbook seeks to support various levels of health personnel in less-resourced locations by providing evidence-based information about low-tech diagnostic and treatment options for common gynecological conditions such as cervical, ovarian and breast cancer, problems in early pregnancy, contrace... more

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Video: Emere yo’obulamu: Abakyala abali embuto kyebetaga okulya

Medical Aid Films (2015)

This film is the Luganda version of 'Food for Life: What Pregnant Women Need to Eat.' The film was dubbed locally in Uganda, thanks to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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Video: Is your child sick?/JE, MTOTO WAKO NI MGONJWA?

Medical Aid Films (2015) C1

JE, MTOTO WAKO NI MGONJWA? MUDA MREFU FILAMU - KUHARISHA, NYUMONIA, MALARIA This film is the full length version of the Is Your Child Sick? videos on pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. The film is aimed at community health workers, parents and communities to teach them the important signs and symp... more

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Antimircrobial Resistence - the role of food and agriculture

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2019) C2

Antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance is a multi-sectoral global threat affecting human and animal health, food safety, plants, fisheries and the environment as a whole. Hence, there is a need for a multi-sectoral approach to address AMR. The resulting FAO Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance h... more

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Rumour has it: A practice guide to working with rumours - ARABIC version

Bugge,J.; and A. Rouse CDAC Network (2018) CC

Several members of the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) Network have recognised the need to work with rumours in their missions to prevent the loss of lives and alleviate suffering. Notably, Internews with their pioneering inter-agency model, the World Health Organisation and ... more

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Deadly Consequences. Obstruction of Aid in Yemen During Covid-19. Summary. Arabic Version

Human Rights Watch HRW (2020) C1

With about 24 million of Yemen’s 30 million people in need of some form of assistance, the United Nations calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Cholera and other disease outbreaks are common, malnutrition is widespread, water is scarce, and the healthcare system is crumbling, with o... more

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Ukraine received more than 700K doses of tetanus-diphtheria vaccine from UNICEF

UN Childrern's Fund Reliefweb OCHA Services (2021) C_UNICEF

To survive and thrive from early childhood through to adolescence and beyond, children need to be healthy. This enables them to access education so that every child in Ukraine, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfill their potential. To ensure children thrive and ... more

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Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) - Sleeping Sickness

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi (2008) C2

At the forefront of DNDi’s efforts to develop new treatments is the need to understand the realities and treatment needs of patients and health care staff in the field. The ultimate goal for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a truly simplified treatment which can be orally administered, impl... more

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Schistosomiasis risk factors based on the infection status among school-going children in the Ndumo area, uMkhanyakude district, South Africa

Kabuyaya, M.; KwaZulu-Natal, Chimbari, M. et al. (2019) CC

Schistosomiasis, commonly known as bilharzia, is an acute and chronic tropical disease caused by trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. The schistosome parasite is transmitted through a snail intermediate host with the human being the definitive host. Worldwide, schistosomiasis continues to cause a pu... more

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Positionspapier der Think Tank Gruppe für die Globale Gesundheitsstrategie der Bundesregierung

Institut für Globale Gesundheit (2019) CC

Germany's efforts to build diplomatic and scientific bridges in global health are especially important amid rising nationalism in the US, UK, Brazil, India, and elsewhere. “With its growing economic power and increasing political inflünce, outside expectations are rising, but so is the skeptici... more

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National surgical, obstetric and anesthesia planning

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School (2022) CC

To achieve our vision of providing Universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when needed, the PGSSC is working with several Ministries of Health to develop National Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAP). This is a national health plan specifically focused on surgic... more