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WHO global hypertension report: race against a silent killer

Global report on hypertension: The race against a silent killer

World Health Organization
September 23, 2023
Read WHO’s first-ever report on the global burden of high blood pressure and the path to progress.
Technical package: Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Change Package

Million Hearts Hypertension Control Change Package

U.S. CDC
September 8, 2023
Technical package including process improvements that outpatient clinical settings can implement to improve hypertension control rates
Program implementation Tools and toolkits
The amended international health regulations: Implications and challenges for domestic legal frameworks

The amended international health regulations: Implications and challenges for domestic legal frameworks

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
August 1, 2023
The May 2024 updates to WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) can drive national legal reforms, establish a coordinating authority, and boost local capacities to improve global health security.
Advocacy and communications
Infographic showing the cost of different aspects of health care worker infections

The true cost of failing to protect health care workers

The World Bank, Resolve to Save Lives
July 27, 2023
A landmark study from the World Bank and Resolve to Save Lives that measures the broader socio-economic costs of health care worker infections and deaths from COVID-19
Brief Advocacy and communications
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Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: WHO guideline

World Health Organization
July 3, 2023
This guideline builds on the 2010 WHO Set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children, and takes into consideration more recent evidence specific to children…
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Integrating hypertension and HIV management: Executive summary

Resolve to Save Lives
June 30, 2023
Executive summary of Resolve to Save Lives' toolkit to help HIV control programs incorporate a patient-centered approach to hypertension care
Advocacy and communications Tools and toolkits

Présentation de PMEP

Resolve to Save Lives
June 30, 2023
Dossier d'information sur le programme PMEP (Gestion des programmes pour la préparation aux épidémies).
Brief

PMEP Overview

Resolve to Save Lives
June 30, 2023
An overview of program management and epidemic preparedness, a leadership and management program that enables teams to accelerate epidemic preparedness in their countries through thoughtful peer exchange and practical learning.
Brief
Safer primary healthcare facilities are needed to protect healthcare workers and maintain essential services: lessons learned from a multicountry COVID-19 emergency response initiative

Safer primary healthcare facilities are needed to protect healthcare workers and maintain essential services: lessons learned from a multicountry COVID-19 emergency response initiative

BMJ Global Health
June 1, 2023
An infection prevention and control initiative improved COVID-19 infection rates for health care workers in Africa, but challenges showed the need for long-term investments in sustainable IPC programs
Advocacy and communications
TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’

TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’

IJTLD OPEN
June 1, 2023
Can 7-1-7 increase the number of household contacts of tuberculosis patients on preventive therapy? In four contexts, most contacts were notified quickly, but structural barriers kept some from care.
Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise

Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise

Health Security
June 1, 2023
Nigeria’s latest self-assessment of pandemic preparedness highlights the importance of investment and stakeholder involvement in strengthening health systems, according to the Nigeria CDC.
Understanding the Role of Staff Nurses in Hypertension Management in Primary Care Facilities in India: A Time-Motion Study

Understanding the role of staff nurses in hypertension management in primary care facilities in India: A time-motion study

Ashish Krishna et al.
May 31, 2023
Study estimating time spent by staff nurses on hypertension and other NCD activities in primary care facilities and time savings from the Simple app
Program implementation
Document cover screenshot reading Ethiopia Ministry of Health National Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Surveillance Guideline

Ethiopia National Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Surveillance Guideline

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
May 31, 2023
A guide for IPC professionals focused on the surveillance of infections that occur during health care delivery.
Technical guidance
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Developing and implementing a trans fat elimination policy: A 7-step guide for policymakers

Resolve to Save Lives
May 21, 2023
Practical steps for countries to develop and implement best practice trans fat elimination policies
Monitoring and evaluation Policy development Policy implementation
Global Sodium Reduction Strategies Course

Global sodium reduction strategies course

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
May 4, 2023
Designing, planning, and implementing sodium reduction interventions in low- and middle-income countries
Training materials Advocacy and communications
Psychosocial determinants of adherence to public health and social measures (PHSMs) in 18 African Union Member States during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a cross-sectional survey

Psychosocial determinants of adherence to public health and social measures (PHSMs) in 18 African Union Member States during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a cross-sectional survey

BMJ Open
May 1, 2023
Trust in authorities, a sense of control over one’s environment and behavior, and access to resources influenced adherence to public health and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries

Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries

Human Resources for Health
May 1, 2023
Effective outbreak response requires sustained investments in health systems—going beyond training to include adequate equipment, space and staffing levels.
HIV hypertension integration

Integrating hypertension and HIV management: Toolkit

Resolve to Save Lives
April 30, 2023
A practical guide to a patient-centered approach to integrating hypertension and HIV care using differentiated service delivery
Program implementation Tools and toolkits

Fast-Tracking Funding for Epidemic Preparedness in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Resolve to Save Lives
April 30, 2023
A case study on fast-tracking funding for epidemic preparedness in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
Case studies

Operational Planning and Priority-Setting Using 7-1-7 to Strengthen Uganda’s Health Security

Resolve to Save Lives
April 30, 2023
A case study on how the 7-1-7 approach bolstered Uganda's National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS).
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