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Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016

Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF (2017) C2

Interim Guidance: Gender Alert for COVID-19 Outbreak

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, et al. (2020) C1

Recognizing the extent to which the COVID-19 outbreaks affects women and men differently is hugely important. Some preliminary data suggested that more men than women are dying, potentially due to sex-based immunological differences, higher rates of ... more

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and response on the utilisation of health services in public facilities during the first wave in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hategeka C, Carter SE, Chenge FM, et al. BMJ Global Health (2021) CC

INTRODUCTION: Health service use among the public can decline during outbreaks and had been predicted among low and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) started implementing public health measures across Kin ... more

Screening for cardiovascular disease risk and subsequent management in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities

Bovet, P.; Chiolero, A.; Paccaud, F. et al. Public Health Reviews (2015) CC

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of premature mortality in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD is an important strategy to prevent and control CVD, in addition to multisector ... al population-based interventions to reduce CVD risk factors in the entire population. Methods: We describe key public health considerations in identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD in LMICs. Results: A main objective of any strategy to identify individuals at high CVD risk is to maximize the number of CVD events averted while minimizing the numbers of individuals needing treatment. Scores estimating the total risk of CVD (e.g. ten-year risk of fatal and non-fatal CVD) are available for LMICs, and are based on the main CVD risk factors (history of CVD, age, sex, tobacco use, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and diabetes status). Opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors enables identification of persons with high CVD risk, but this strategy can be widely applied in low resource settings only if cost effective interventions are used (e.g. the WHO Package of Essential NCD interventions for primary health care in low resource settings package) and if treatment (generally for years) can be sustained, including continued availability ofaffordable medications and funding mechanisms that allow people to purchase medications without impoverishing them (e.g. universal access to health care). Thisalso emphasises the need to re-orient health systems in LMICs towards chronic diseases management. Conclusion: The large burden of CVD in LMICs and the fact that persons with high CVD can be identified and managed along cost-effective interventions mean that health systems need to be structured in a way that encourages patient registration, opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors, efficient procedures for the management of chronic conditions (e.g. task sharing) and provision of affordable treatment for those with high CVD risk. The focus needs to be in primary care because that is where most of the population can access health care and because CVD programmes can be run effectively at this level. more

Albania - Demographic and Health Survey

Institute of Statistics Institute of Public Health; Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; UNFPA; UN Women; Unicef; et al. (2018) C2

2017-2018 Republic of Albania

HIV testing and counselling in Estonian prisons, 2012 to 2013: aims, processes and impacts

The Estonian Ministry of Justice; Prison Department; Rehabilitation Division European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2014) CC

Euro Surveillance 2014;19(47):pii=20970, p.31-37

Liberia: Inclusion of people with disabilities in national employment policies

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2015) C1

Policy Brief: The impact of COVID-19 on older persons

United Nations (2020) C2

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold fear and suffering for older people across the world. As of 26 April, the virus itself has already taken the lives of some 193,710 people, and fatality rates for those over 80 years of age is five times the global average. As the virus spreads rapidly to devel ... more

A human rights aproach to tuberculosis

World Health Organization; Stop TB (2001) C_WHO

Guidelines for social mobilization TB and poverty; TB and children; TB and women; TB, migrants and refugees; TB and prisons WHO/CDS/STB/2001.9 Original: English; Distribution: Limited

First Ethiopian National Population Based Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey

Ministry of Health and Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2011) C1

Rabies Vaccines WHO position paper

WHO (2007)

Human Resources for Health: Country Profile Sierra Leone

Human Resources for Health; Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone; World Health Organization (WHO) (2011) C_WHO

South Africa Demographic and Health Survey 2016

National Department of Health - NDoH, Statistics South Africa, South African Medical Research Council SAMRC, and ICF (2019) CC

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Child protection in Emergencies - Fact sheet

Save the Children UNICEF (2010) CC

War and natural disaster result in millions of families and children witnessing or being victims of unthinkable atrocities. Save the Children is working to minimize the harm children experience during and after an emergency. It is working to ensure children are protected from participating in arm ... more

NO. 47 OF 2013: EMPLOYMENT EQUITY amendment ACT, 2013

Government of the Republic of South Africa Government Gazette (2013) C2

A Handbook for Auxiliary Nurse Midwives Lady Health Visitors & Staff Nurses

Maternal Health Division Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India Maternal Health Division Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India (2010) C1

Lessons from Northern Uganda in addressing gender based violence

Sharlene Yang Action Contre la Faim France (2017) C1

Vaccine Equity Declaration

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Join the campaign to call on countries and companies to ensure that by the time World Health Day arrives on 7 April, COVID-19 vaccines are being administered in every country, as a symbol of hope for overcoming both the pandemic and the inequalities that lie at the root of so many global health chal ... more

Community-based Reports of Co-Morbidity, Co-mortality, and Health-Seeking Behaviors in Four Monrovia Communities During the West African Ebola Epidemic

Sharon Abramowitz, Kristen McLean, Josephine Monger, Kodjo Tehoungue, Sarah McKune, Mosoka Fallah, Patricia Omidian Ebola Anthropology Platform (2015)