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This manual provides practical tools, including training modules and job aids, to help national programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) plan, prepare and monitor the safe administration of medicines for treatm...

Welcome to the fifth edition of Health Systems Trust’s Phakama Digest, which profiles the SA SURE Project’s work through in-depth perspectives of implementation activities in the field....

New report reveals stark inequalities in access to HIV prevention and treatment services for children—partners call for urgent action...

This publication is the update of the Guidelines published in 2016 entitled “Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection: recommendations for a public health appr...

UNAIDS report shows that people living with HIV face a double jeopardy, HIV and COVID-19, while key populations and children continue to be left behind in access to HIV services....

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Health Systems Trust is pleased to announce the release of the fourth edition of the Phakama Digest, which profiles the work of the SA SURE Project. This December 2020 edition focuses on HIV index contact testing. ...

The report provides an overview of access to early learning in South Africa, and explains why a systems intervention is needed to help to close the provisioning gap and to enable population-level change in child outcome...

Health Systems Trust is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of the Phakama Digest, which profiles the work of the SA SURE Project. ...

WHO’s World Health Statistics reports progress against a series of key health and health service indicators, revealing some important lessons in terms of progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals and gaps ...

Many medical practices and risks associated with health care are emerging as major challenges for patient safety and contribute significantly to the burden of harm due to unsafe care....

The National IPC Strategic Framework (2019) was aligned with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) core components for IPC (2016). ...

This document expands on the content of the Operational planning guidelines to support country preparedness and response...

This technical brief provides a summary of the treatment regimens now recommended by WHO, which represent hope for people with DR-TB and their caregivers...

The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidance to help protect children and schools from transmission of the COVID-19 virus...

Ahead of International Women’s Day, UNAIDS has launched a new report showing that the stark inequalities and inequities between men and women are continuing to make women and girls more vulnerable to HIV....

This is the second edition of the District Health Barometer (DHB): District Health Profiles. It provides an overview of health care in the public health sector for all districts and metros of South Africa. ...

The District Health Barometer (DHB) has helped to address a significant challenge in the South African public health sector, namely the challenge of accurately measuring change and progress over time, and effecting the ...

The theme of the 2019 issue – “Child and Adolescent Health: Leave no one behind” – is a call to prioritise child and adolescent health and put children at the heart of the health care system....

The latest report from the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership, on global funding trends for TB research and development (R&D), presents new data on TB R&D funding in 2018 and analyzes trends in fun...

Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest ...

The World malaria report 2019 provides a comprehensive update on global and regional malaria data and trends. The report tracks investments in malaria programmes and research ...