Ebola interventions: The intervention to combat Ebola aims to stop human-to-human transmission. The package is composed of five elements necessary to control the spread of the disease: care to patients, contact monitoring, safe burials, laboratory support and social mobilisation.
The document al...so describes key information on Ebola virus disease, patient care, contact tracing and monitoring, safe and dignified burial, laboratory diagnosis.
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ALTER Revue Européene de Recherche sur le handicap 2 (2008) 32-43
To Initiating a Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Project in Urban Slums with Social Mapping, Census Taking, and Community Engagement
This publication outlines results from a UNDP partnership with the Government of Odisha, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Care Today that demonstrated how low-cost, disaster-resilient building technologies enabled communities to build structures that could better wit...hstand natural disasters. The report provides guidelines for communities and governments in addressing the housing needs of the most vulnerable in the society.
Accessed 28 June 2015
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The funding requested in this supplementary appeal will enable UNHCR to enhance preventive, preparedness and response measures against EVD, participate in the regional and country inter-agency response and ensure continuity of operations, including ...preparations for the resumption of the voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees, in the face of the Ebola crisis
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This guideline provides health policy-makers and decision-makers in health professional training institutions with advice on the rationale for health-care providers’ use of counselling skills to address sexual health concerns in a primary health care setting
Following an overview of maternal and neonatal child health in Nepal and in the districts covered by the project, the briefing outlines the background to the Strengthening Approaches for Maximizing Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health (SAMMAN)... project. It then describes the key aspects of the two main project approaches: one focused on the community level, and the other on health systems
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Social Protection Policy Analysis, Tanzania
For the control of vectors and pests of public health importance. Sixth edition