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Africa CDC Event-based Surveillance Framework: interim version 2018

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC (2018) CC

Event-based surveillance (EBS) is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment and interpretation of mainly unstructured ad hoc information regarding health events or risks, which may represent an acute risk to health. Both indicator-based and event-based surveillance components serve... more

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Public health and climate change adaptation policies in the European Union

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

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Policy statement and recommended actions for early detection of breast, cervical, colorectal, oral and prostate cancers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

World Health Organization WHO; Eastern Mediterranean Region (2022) C_WHO

Policy Statement

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Developing New Diagnostic Tests for Human African Trypanosomiasis - Current status and future plans

HAT & OND Team Foundation for innovative new diagnostics FIND (2013) C2

FIND and Standard Diagnostics (SD) have developed a lateral flow rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to screen for T.b. gambiense HAT that is cheap and easy to use. The tests are packed individually and are stable at 40°C for up to 25 months; they are performed on fresh blood obtained from a finger prick... more

Costed Regional Action Plan to End Cross-Border Female Genital Mutilation

UNFPA ESARO UNFPA ESARO (2022) CC

This regional action plan provides a broad framework for the regional level to assist governments in accelerating the implementation of existing international, regional and national commitments on ending FGM. Formulating the plan has provided an opportunity for the region to identify broad prioritie... more

Interim Guidlines for the clinical management of diabetes in Jamaica

Ministry of Health and Wellness (2020) CC2

Diabetes mellitus, also called diabetes, is a chronic metabolic condition in which the hormone insulin is not produced by the pancreas in sufficient quantities or is not utilized effectively by the body to control blood glucose levels. As a result, blood glucose levels are abnormally high (hypergl... more

Multi-Sector Nutrition Education and Communication Strategy (NECS) II 2021-2025

Government of Malawi; Department of Nutrition; HIV and AIDS Ministry of Health (2021) CC2

The Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS (DNHA) in Ministry of Health and Population is grateful to all stakeholders who contributed to the development of the Nutrition Education Communication Strategy II. The DNHA acknowledges the financial and technical support from the World Bank and USAID throu... more

Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

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Expansion Plan of Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB (PMDT)

National TB Control Programme, Bangladesh World Health Organization WHO, Bangladesh (2013) C1

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Communicating with health workers about COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

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Communicating with health workers aboutCOVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) CC

This training module is designed to equip HWs with knowledge and communication skills to build their confidence and support them in their ability to promote acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among other HWs.

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IMAI Triage wall chart

World Health Organization (2008)

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Early Warning - Early Action

IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2008) CC

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CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Trainers’ Manual: Stage 2 / Handout 7

Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM) (2012)

Inclusive Project Cycle Management

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Guidance to reduce COVID-19 stigma on Health workers and families
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World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa (2020) C_WHO

Ukraine Conflict Emergency Response - Situational Report #02 (March 2022)

ChildFund Alliance and WeWorld-GVC (2022) C1

A full-scale military attack (invasion) of Ukraine was started by Russia in the night of February 23/24, 2022. Cities, towns and other targets in all regions of Ukraine have been shelled or attacked with rockets, and columns of military vehicles have been invaded the country from three directions (n... more

Ukrainian Crisis - Situational Analysis 18 Nov 2022

Data Friendly Space Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) C2

Conflict In early October, Ukrainian forces continued recapturing areas of southern and eastern oblasts, notably Lyman (Donetsk oblast). The liberation of thousands of square kilometres resulted in the grim discovery of two new mass graves in Lyman and Sviatohirsk (containing of 120 civilian bodi... more