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IASC Guidelines for mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings
recommended

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2007) C1

Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monitoring and evaluation protection and human rights standards human resources community mobilisation and support health services education dissemination of i... more

Guidance for health sector assessment to support the post-disaster recovery process

United Nations agencies, the World Bank and the European Commission (2010)

Mass Casualty Management Systems. Strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity

Health Action in Crisis Word Health Organization (2007)

Disaster planning - organization and administration. 2.Emergency medical services - methods. 3.Emergency medical services - organization and administration. 4.Emergencies. 5.Health policy. 6.Health facilities.7.Guidelines.

Oral Cholera Vaccine Use in Complex Emergencies: What next?

World Health Organization (2005)

Guidelines for Implementing Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises

Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises (IHE) Initiative UNHCR (2007)

WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

World Health Organization (2010) C_WHO

To improve survival and quality of life among the 2.5 million children living with HIV, a comprehensive package of prevention, care and treatment is required. This package should include management of infections such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and ear infections, as well as common opportunisti... more

Ghana Essential Medicines List

Ministry of Health Ghana National Drugs Programme (2017) C_WHO

Essential Medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy, safety and comparative cost-effectiveness. This edition of the Essential Medicines List (EML) 2017 for Ghana has been deriv... more

Hidden victims of the Syrian crisis: disabled, injured and older refugee

Handicap International and HelpAge International: (2014) C1

New research published today shows that older, disabled and injured Syrian refugees are paying a double toll as a result of the conflict. The report, released by Handicap International and HelpAge International, provides new data showing how much these vulnerable refugees are struggling to meet thei... more

WHO guidance: Public health response to biological and chemical weapons

World Health Organization (2004) C_WHO

The message contained in this publication is clear: countries need a public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of chemical and biological agents. Regrettable though this message may be, the use of poison gas in the war between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 19... more

Improving Child Nutrition

Unite for Children; UNICEF (2013)

The achievable imperative for global progress

Step-by-Step Approach for Development and Implementation of Hospital Antibiotic Policy and Standard Treatment Guidelines
recommended

World Health Organization (2011) C_WHO

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a major public health problem all over the world. Infections caused by resistant microbes fail to respond to treatment, resulting in prolonged illness and greater risk of death. This document focuses on the mechanism to develop a practically applicable h... more

“A time of fear”: local, national, and international responses to a large Ebola outbreak in Uganda

John Kinsman (2012) CC

Globalization and Health 2012, 8:15

Ebola Myths, Realities and Structural Violence

ANNIEWILKINSON ANDMELISSA LEACH (2014)

The scale of West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has been attributed to the weak health systems of affected countries, their lack of resources, the mobility of communities and their inexperience in dealing with Ebola. This briefing for African Affairs argues that these explanations lack important contex... more

Uganda Clinical Guidelines. National Guidelines on Management of Common Conditions
recommended

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2016) C1

This new edition and fully updated publication replaces the 2012 UCG and is being circulated free of charge to all public and private sector prescribers, pharmacists, and regulatory authorities in the country

Measuring Core Health Indicators in the South-East Asia Region 2014

World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, Health Situation and Trend Assessment Unit of Health System Department (2015) CC3

Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Michael T. Osterholma, Kristine A. Moorea, Nicholas S. Kelley et al. (2015)

mBio, Vol. 6 Issue 2, March/April 2015 Available evidence demonstrates that direct patient contact and contact with infectious body fluids are the primary modes for Ebola virus transmission, but this is based on a limited number of studies. In this review, the authors address what we know and what ... more

Devolution of Healthcare Services in Kenya: Lessons learnt from other Countries

KPMG Africa (2013) C1