Summary of key informant interviews with representatives of organizations providing, funding, or supporting WASH services to refugee populations
The Joint Response Plan sets out a comprehensive programme shaped around three strategic objectives – deliver protection, provide life-saving assistance and foster social cohesion. ...tribute-to-highlight medbox">The Plan covers all humanitarian sectors and addresses key cross-cutting issues, including protection and gender mainstreaming. The Plan will also strengthen emergency preparedness and response for weather-related risks and natural disasters, with a focus on community
engagement.
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Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Research Network | This manual describes well accepted methods to carry out drug susceptibility testing on important gram positive and gram negative clinica...lly relevant bacteria. Methods of specimen collection, transport, culture, anti-microbial drug susceptibility testing (common, special phenotypic and
molecular techniques) as well as quality control and quality assurance have been described in a concise manner.
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Background paper 8
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
May 2021
The Integrated Management of Adolescent/Adult Illness (IMAI) approach
Background paper for the Oslo Summit on Education for Development
A Resource Book of Inclusive Practices
4th edition. A manual for clinics, community health centers and district hospitals
Towards Attaining the Highest Standard of Mental Health
This report presents the findings from the Community Based Volunteers Skill Audit Survey that was carried out in 11 districts in Zambia as part of ...the Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Initiative.
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Over the 20 years that followed, this unique partnership has invested more than US$53 billion, saving 44 million lives and reducing the combined de...ath rate from the three diseases by more than half in the countries in which the Global Fund invests.
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Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a critical strategy to care for preterm and low birth weight infants in resource-limited settings. Despite evidence of its effectiveness ...ight medbox">and low cost, coverage has remained low, largely due to sociocultural barriers. We aimed to better understand social norms and community perceptions of preterm infants and KMC (facility-initiated and community-continued) in Malawi, a country with a high preterm birth rate, to inform a pilot social and behavior change program.
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What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in
crisis-affected contexts
This helpdesk report seeks to establish what lessons have been learnt from the current and previous Ebola outbreaks. It recommends good practice and...> makes suggestions based on the evidence for good practice and preparedness to reduce transmission and prevent further risk and exposure in affected countries.
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This policy paper underscores that, although children do not represent a high-risk group for direct COVID-19 fatality, the pandemic posts far-reaching secondary impacts that heighten risks to African children’s rights ...hlight medbox">and wellbeing.
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Globally, approximately 56.8 million people are in need of palliative care
services; 78% of them living in low and middle-income country yet only
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about 12% have their needs being met causing great suffering for many.
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