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Basic Malaria Microscopy Online Course

The Global Health Network University of Oxford (2020) CC

For the purposes of presenting the Guide as an e-course it has been divided into five parts. Each part of the course takes 30 to 45 minutes and must be completed in order. You can save and exit at any point throughout the course. The five quiz sections presented at the end of each part of the cours... more

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Malaria Results Profile Ethiopia 2020

The Global Fund (2020) C1

Malaria deaths, Malaria cases

Tuberculosis Results Profile Ethiopia 2019

The Global Fund (2019) CC

Tuberculosis cases, TB deaths

Tuberculosis Results Profile Ethiopia 2020

The Global Fund (2020) C1

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The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) guide: developing a clinical decision support tool to simplify, standardise and strengthen primary health care delivery

Cornick, Picken, Wattrus et al. BMJ Global Health Journal (2018) CC

For the primary health worker in a low/middle-income country (LMIC) setting, delivering quality primary care is challenging. This is often complicated by clinical guidance that is out of date, inconsistent and informed by evidence from high-income countries that ignores LMIC resource constraints and... more

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Why is Teamwork in Health Care Important?

HRH - Global Resource Center (2021) CC

Interdisciplinary teamwork is an important model for delivering health care to patients. Teamwork in health is defined as two or more people who interact interdependently with a common purpose, working toward measurable goals that benefit from leadership that maintains stability while encouraging... more

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How to Conduct the Patient Interview

Rubin M. HMP Global Learning Network (2015) CC

Information about interviewing patients

Job satisfaction among healthcare workers in Ghana and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic: Role of perceived preparedness, stress, and burnout

Afulani PA, Nutor JJ, Agbadi P, Gyamerah AO, Musana J, Aborigo RA, et al. PLOS Global Public Health (2021) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected job satisfaction among healthcare workers; yet this has not been empirically examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We addressed this gap by examining job satisfaction and associated factors among healthcare workers in Ghana and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic. W... more

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Disruption in essential health services in Mexico during COVID-19: an interrupted time series analysis of health information system data

Doubova SV, Leslie HH, Kruk ME, et al. BMJ Global Health (2021) CC

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health systems around the world. The objectives of this study are to estimate the overall effect of the pandemic on essential health service use and outcomes in Mexico, describe observed and predicted trends in services over 24 months, and to estimat... more

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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

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Inequitable access to COVID-19 tools: A snapshot across 503 facilities in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The Global Fund (2021) CC

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Transforming the care of babies with sepsis

GARDP Global Acntibiotic Research & Dedvelopment Partnership (2022) CC

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African Pharmacovigilance Consortia

The Global Health Network (2022) CC

PAVIA and PROFORMA are two large, coordinated, African pharmacovigilance consortia that are part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

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Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection (ChEETAh): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-in

NIHR Global Reserach Health Unit on Global Surgery (2022) CC

The Lancet Vol.400 (2022) p.17-67-1776. Published:October 31, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01884-0. Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common complication of surgery around the world: ChEETAh trial finds routinely changing gloves and instruments for wound closure could preve... more

WHF IASC Roadmap on Chagas Disease

Echeverría, L.; Marcus, R.; Novick, G. et al. WHF Global Heart (2020) CC

The WHF IASC Roadmap proposes strategies and evidence-based solutions for healthcare professionals, health authorities and governments to help overcome the barriers to comprehensive care for Chagas disease patients. This roadmap describes an ideal patient care pathway, and explores the roadblocks al... more

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Nexus approaches in humanitarian settings - A guidance note for the Protection Cluster

A global NGO network for principled and effective humanitarian action (ICVA) (2023) C2

This Guidance Note is meant to help protection cluster coordinators apply nexus approaches in a practical way by, providing concrete steps and means to address prevalent or longstanding protection issues, risk patterns, trends and chronic vulnerabilities. The guidance calls for a practical, problem-... more

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Modelling historical changes in the force-of-infection of Chagas disease to inform control and elimination programmes: application in Colombia

Cucunubá, Z.; Nouvellet, P.; Conteh, L. et al. BMJ Global Health (2022) CC

BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000345. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000345. WHO's 2020 milestones for Chagas disease include having all endemic Latin American countries certified with no intradomiciliary Trypanosoma cruzi transmission, and infected patients under care. Evaluating the variation in historical expo... more

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“Female genital schistosomiasis is a sexually transmitted disease”: Gaps in healthcare workers’ knowledge about female genital schistosomiasis in Tanzania

Mazigo, H.; Samson, A.; Lambert, V. et al. PLoS Global Public Health (2022) CC

Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) is a gynaecological disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic worm that is acquired by skin contact with freshwater contaminated by schistosome cerceriae. Communities in which the infection is most endemic have limited access to clean water and healt... more

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Flexibly funding WHO? An analysis of its donors' voluntary contributions

Obichukwu I., Kennedy J., Harmer A. BMJ Global Health (2022) CC

Since the 1970s, voluntary contributions have become an increasingly important component of WHO's budget. As voluntary contributions tend to be earmarked for donor-specified programmes and projects, there are concerns that this trend has diverted focus away from WHO's strategic priorities, made coor... more

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Fight for what counts. Investment Case

The Global Fund (2022) CC

Over the 20 years that followed, this unique partnership has invested more than US$53 billion, saving 44 million lives and reducing the combined death rate from the three diseases by more than half in the countries in which the Global Fund invests.