
Category: Priority Diseases
114 Posts

Educational Resource, Priority Diseases, Quality and Service Improvement
Increasing vaccine acceptance using evidence-based approaches and policies.
Africa, COVID-19, Priority Diseases
New COVID-19 variants fuelling Africa’s second wave.

Primary health care, Priority Diseases, WHO Global
WHO resolution on meningitis

Primary health care, Priority Diseases, WHO Global
Delivery of essential surgery by family physicians

Primary health care, Priority Diseases
Stroke rehabilitation in LMICs: a call to action

Innovating to Address Gender-Based Violence

Africa, Jhb DRC, Population Health and COPC, Primary health care, Priority Diseases, Research
Overcrowding and health in Johannesburg

Africa, Jhb DRC, Primary health care, Priority Diseases, Research
Arsenic and lead in gardens of Johannesburg

COVID-19, Educational Resource, Global Health, Priority Diseases
IPCRG – Working locally in primary care and collaborating globally to improve respiratory health

Strategies for palliative care in LMICs

Africa, COVID-19, Priority Diseases
The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and COVID-19

10th Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo declared over

COVID-19, Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
WHO: Use of chest imaging in COVID-19

Africa, COVID-19, Priority Diseases
Guidelines for renal care of COVID-19 in Africa

COVID-19 Linked to Large Vessel Stroke in Young Adults

How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Free textbooks for COVID-19

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Covid-19 Watch: The Crisis Deepens

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
SA hospitals will struggle to cope with a likely exponential infection rate

Global Health, Priority Diseases
South Korea and Italy are contrasting case studies in dealing with pandemic

Global Health, Priority Diseases
COVID-19 Clinical Controversies

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Health Department: Covid-19 infections are here to stay until June or July

Global Health, Priority Diseases
WHO Webinar: Protection of health workers in COVID19 response

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Mental Health with COVID-19

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
No water, no room: Containing an outbreak in South Africa

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Clinical course and risks in COVID-19

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
SA clocks 85 Covid-19 cases

Global Health, Priority Diseases
UK coronavirus crisis ‘to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised’

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Public Service Videos Available on Washing Your Hands and Preventing Sickness

Global Health, Priority Diseases
COVID-19 and the Global Health Workforce

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Ramaphosa declares national disaster as Covid-19 cases rise to 61, and SA heads for lockdown

Global Health, Priority Diseases
COVID-19: What Can the World Learn From Italy?

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Concern that hospitals won’t be able to cope with Covid-19

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19): a guide for UK GPs

Global Health, Priority Diseases
COVID-19: safe schools

Educational Resource, Priority Diseases
LSHTM Course: COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Intensive Care Society: Wellbeing Resource Library

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Whither Covid-19? An interview with SA’s chief virus hunter

Global Health, Primary health care, Priority Diseases
Coronavirus Is Exposing Deficiencies in U.S. Health Care

Global Health, Priority Diseases
New ‘Wuhan shake’ goes viral amid coronavirus fears

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Six more cases of coronavirus in SA

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Coronavirus: ‘Stop saying it’s a bad flu’ – Doctor fighting Italy outbreak shares dramatic account

Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
WHO Course: Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, response and control

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
The public health system and individual hygiene practices must be primed to deal with the coronavirus

Health Systems Information, Priority Diseases
Healthcare information for all

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Coronavirus (covid-19): Latest news and resources

COVID-19: Why has Africa been spared so far?

Priority Diseases, SA Health General
Are we ready for Covid-19? The South African government responds

Africa, Priority Diseases, WHO AFRO, WHO Guidelines
WHO: COVID-19 in Africa: from readiness to response

Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19

Coronavirus and the global economy: People will panic if there is a lack of transparency

Mapping 2019-nCoV

Educational Resource, Priority Diseases
WHO Course: Infection Prevention and Control for COVID-19

Patient Advice, Priority Diseases
Coronavirus incubation period could be 27 days, shows data
How will COVID-19 hit Africa?

Patient Advice, Priority Diseases
COVID-19 is here, now what?
Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
Daily WHO Updates on COVID-19

WHO pledges to support African countries on joint coronavirus disease preparedness and response strategy

Patient Advice, Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public

Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
Course on Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV

Coronavirus looms over Africa’s fragile health systems

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Even Without Symptoms, Wuhan Coronavirus May Spread, Experts Fear

Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
Latest WHO updates on the new coronavirus

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Health authorities monitor first SA patient suspected of having coronavirus

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Africa’s chances of a coronavirus outbreak extremely high, says WHO

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

Global Health, Priority Diseases
Free resources on Corona Virus

WHO declares the new coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

Statement on the meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus

Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents

Lung cancer may soon be picked up by a blood test

Cervical cancer literacy

Communication around HPV vaccination for adolescents in LMICs

Optimal CPR compression rate and depth for neurologically intact survival — NIH study

Africa, Priority Diseases, WHO AFRO
Deaths from Democratic Republic of the Congo measles outbreak top 6000

Health Systems Information, Priority Diseases
Launch of Antimicrobial Stewardship Prescribing App

Human Resources, Priority Diseases
Nurses’ attitudes, beliefs, and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disabilities: An integrative review

Priority Diseases, Quality and Service Improvement
Rehabilitation medicine

More than 140 000 die from measles as cases surge worldwide
Antimicrobial stewardship in rural districts of South Africa: growing a positive culture

Review of the Strategic Response Plan for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Global Health, NCDs, Priority Diseases
New ways to tackle leading causes of urban deaths
Measles making a deadly comeback across Africa

Announcing The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health

Human Resources, Population Health and COPC, Priority Diseases
Medication review service implementation in community pharmacy settings: Scoping review with focus on implementation studies

WHO News release: WHO launches first World report on vision

Priority Diseases, WHO Guidelines
An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model

Associated Press: Verbal autopsies used in push to better track global deaths – Social autopsies

1000 survivors: Harnessing Hope to End an Ebola Outbreak

International Day of Older Persons, 1 October

Foreign Policy: The World Knows an Apocalyptic Pandemic Is Coming

WHO and partners launch emergency vaccination campaign to help contain world’s largest measles outbreak

Measles has now killed more people in DRC than Ebola – and almost all of them are children

Health Education System, Priority Diseases
Pocket Library for healthcare professionals and scholars in Ebola-affected areas
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Priority Diseases
The monetary value of human lives lost through Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

Africa, Priority Diseases, WHO AFRO
Promoting innovation and access for neglected diseases in Africa

Population Health and COPC, Priority Diseases, Universal Health Coverage