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National Policy for the Establishment and Functioning of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committees in South Africa

Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2015) C2

Ethiopian National eHealth Strategy

Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2014) C1

Sierra Leone National Rapid Assessment of Laboratory Capacity and Systems: Sub-Report

Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone (2016) C1

The Strategic Importance of National Investment in Nursing Professionals in the Region of the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines... more

Improving Financial Access to Health Services for the Poor in Nigeria - Brief: Community-based Health Insurance

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria; National Health Insurance Scheme; National Primary Health Care et al. (2012) C_WHO

Friends of the Family - child protection system

UNICEF Rwanda, National Commission for Children and the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (2016)

A poster to raise awareness about Rwanda's Friends of the Family child protection system, outlining its role in empowering children and families.

UNICEF Annual Report 2017 - Burkina Faso

Unicef (2017) C_UNICEF

UNICEF Annual Report 2017 - Burkina Faso - Healthcare policy for children - Food insecurity - Community health strategy - National child protection ... etc. more

Linieamientos technicos par realizar pruebas el diagnostico de COVID-19 en los laboratories clinicos del sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud

Ministerio de Salud El Salvador (2020) C1

Technical guidelines for testing for COVID-19 in the clinical laboratories of the National Integrated Health System.

Venezuela’s Humanitarian Emergency

Human Rights Watch (2019) C1

Large-Scale UN Response Needed to Address Health and Food Crises This report is based on interviews with more than 150 health care professionals, Venezuelans seeking or in need of medical care who ... more

Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability

Agarwal, A.; Husain, M.J.; Datta, B. et al. Circulation: Heart Failure (2022) CC

Heart failure (HF) is a leading global public health problem with >64 million prevalent cases globally. Patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) from low- and middle-income countries experience a 22% to 58% higher 1-year mortality rat... more

International Council of Nurses - Consejo Internacional de Enfermeras - Conseil International des Infirmières - Website

International Council of Nurses (2021) CC

The International Council of Nurses is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations, representing the more than 27 million nurses worldwide. ICN's ever-increasing networks and connections to people reinforce the importance of strong l... more

Pakistan: Dengue Outbreak - Sep 2022

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2022) C1

the current surge in cases follows unprecedented flooding that began in mid-June 2022. With the current flood crisis affecting the national health system<... more

Report of a WHO–FIND meeting on diagnostics for Buruli ulcer

WHO Tecnical Advisory Group and FIND (2018) CC

The meeting was held from 26 to 27 March 2018 to review and discuss the following topics: Advances and challenges in the use of fTLC, and new approaches to detecting mycolactone using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The status of development of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) targeting the MUL... more

HRI Global Resource Page

HRI Global Resource (2022) CC

Protecting Patients, Supporting Practitioners in Tandem. HRI Global is an independent health consultancy which specialises in Whole Health System ... more

Population Size Estimation of Female Sex Workers In Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia 2014

Dr. I. Chikovani; Dr. N. Shengelia; L. Sulaberidze; N. Tsereteli; et al. The Global Fund To fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Curatio International Foundation; Tanadgoma (2014) C2

Study Report August 2014 Curatio International Foundation (CIF) and the Association Tanadgoma would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by GFATM under the project “Establishment of evidence base for national HIV/AIDS program by... more

First Colombian consensus on congenital Chagas and clinical approach for women of child-bearing age diagnosed with Chagas

Cucunubá Z.M., Valencia-Hernándeza C.A. , Puerta C.J. et al (2017) C2

Congenital transmission of Chagas disease has not been extensively studied in Colombia, and there are no standardized processes in the health system regarding the specific diagnosis, treatment and... more

Access to Medications for Cardiovascular Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Wirtz, V.J.; Kaplan, W.A.; Kwan, G.F. Circulation (2016) CC

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent the highest burden of disease globally. Medicines are a critical intervention used to prevent and treat CVD. This review describes access to medication for CVD from a health ... perspective and strategies that have been used to promote access, including providing medicines at lower cost, improving medication supply, ensuring medicine quality, promoting appropriate use, and managing intellectual property issues. Using key evidence in published and gray literature and systematic reviews, we summarize advances in access to cardiovascular medicines using the 5 health system dimensions of access: availability, affordability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of medicines. There are multiple barriers to access of CVD medicines, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Low availability of CVD medicines has been reported in public and private healthcare facilities. When patients lack insurance and pay out of pocket to purchase medicines, medicines can be unaffordable. Accessibility and acceptability are low for medicines used in secondary prevention; increasing use is positively related to country income. Fixed-dose combinations have shown a positive effect on adherence and intermediate outcome measures such as blood pressure and cholesterol. We have a new opportunity to improve access to CVD medicines by using strategies such as efficient procurement of low-cost, quality-assured generic medicines, development of fixed-dose combination medicines, and promotion of adherence through insurance schemes that waive copayment for long-term medications. Monitoring progress at all levels, institutional, regional, national, and international, is vital to identifying gaps in access and implementing adequate policies. more

A JOURNEY TO END NTDs: Elimination and Care

Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) (2017)

LEAVING NO-ONE BEHIND | “A Journey to End NTDs – Elimination and Care” records what we have achieved over the last year and where we are now. It presents our plan of action for the coming years, bringing our ‘traditional’ NTD work together with ‘Disease Management Disability and Inclusio... more

Myanmar Living Conditions Survey 2017: Key Indicators Report

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Planning and Finance, Central Statistical Organization et al. (2018) C1

The survey is representative of the Union Territory, its states and regions and urban and rural areas. It was conducted in all the districts and in 296 of the 330 townships of Myanmar. A total of 13,730 households were interviewed. It collects data on the occupations of people, how much income they ... more