American Univesity of Beirut

The following links concern public health in Mauritania. This page will be updated regularly so please visit often. Suggest additional resources or tell us if a link is broken. Please write us at: phaw-admin@aub.edu.lb

Associations and Networks

• Mauritanian Public Health Association (AMSP)  
  

Audio Visual Materials

• Getting Kids to School in Mauritania (WorldBank, 2010)
  
• Lacking health care, Mauritania resorts to healers - Mauritania (AFP, 2010)
  
• Mauritanian children endure life on the streets - Mauritania (AFP, 2010)
  
• Mauritania - Insurance at the service of maternal health - Mauritania (aideaudeveloppement, 2010)
  
• Mauritania: Aids Prevention - Mauritania (WorldBank, 2010)
  
• Protecting children from the emerging food crisis in Mauritania - Mauritania(unicef, 2012)
  
• UNICEF: Protecting children from the emerging food crisis in Mauritania (2012) - Mauritania
  
•  (aljazeerachannel, 2010) ندوة الصعوبات التي تواجه قطاع الصحة في موريتانيا
  
• (WorldNewsPlatform, 2012) ارتفاع نسبة مرضى الملاريا في موريتانيا
  

Bibliograpgy & publications

• PreventionWeb - Policy, Plans & Statements -  Mauritania
  
• World Bank - Open Knowledge Repository (you can choose countries and topics) - Mauritania
  

Centers, Organizations and Institutions

• Child Rights International Network (CRIN) - Mauritania
  
• Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor - Mauritania
  
• Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - United Nations' Human Rights - Human Rights  Programme for the Middle East and North Africa: Mauritania 
  
• Ordre National des Médecins - Mauritania
  
• Psychology Resources Around the World - (Midle East / Africa - contains information on Arab countries in Africa) -  Mauritania
  
• Scaling Up Nutrition - Mauritania
  
• UNDP - Mauritania
  
• UNESCO International Bureau of Education - Mauritania
  
• UNESCWA Population Information Network (POPIN) - Mauritania
  
• UNICEF -  Mauritania
  
• UNISDR (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) - Mauritania
  
• United States Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs - Mauritania
  

Data and Statistics

• African Health Observatory (​WHO) - Mauritania (Country profile)
  
• Country Health profile (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• Childinfo (UNICEF)
  
• Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MISC):  Round 5 (2012-2014): Survey results from participating countries will be available starting from the end of 2013., Round 3 (2005-2006) & Round 1 (1995): Done in Mauritania 
  
• Profile of Mauritania
  
• Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases 2010 country profile (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• Countdown to 2015 - Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival (WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health) - Mauritania
  
• DataFinder, Population Reference Bureau - Mauritania
  
• Demographic and Health Surveys (MEASURE DHS) - Mauritania
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -  Mauritania
  
• Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI): Mauritania
  
• Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - IHME) - Country profiles - Mauritania
  
• Global Data Sources: Global Database on Iodine Deficiency - Mauritania (WHO), Global Health Expenditure Database - Mauritania (WHO) (choose "African Region", then "Mauritania" from the list to the left and click "Refresh data"), Global Health Observatory - Mauritania (WHO), Global Health Fact - Mauritania (Kaiser Foundation), Global Database on Anaemia - Mauritania (WHO), Global Database on Vitamin A Deficiency -  Mauritania (WHO)
  
• GIEWS Country Briefs - Mauritania
  
• Guttmacher Institute Reproductive Health data -  Mauritania
  
• HPV Information Centre -  Mauritania
  
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: Global Burden of Disease: Mauritania
  
• International Labor Organization (ILO): Natlex, Normlex - Mauritania
  
• Medical Devices (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• MDGs Indicators (UN) - Mauritania
  
• Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Country Briefing- Mauritania
  
• National Health Expenditures (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• NationMaster.com -  Mauritania
  
• Noncommunicable Diseases Country Profiles 2011 (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• PreventionWeb - Disaster Data & Statistics - Mauritania
  
• Profile of Mauritania (WHO) 
  
• Quandl Financial & Economic Data - Mauritania (check different topics to the right)
  
• Social Watch- Extended Data - Mauritania
  
• Social Progress Imperative - Social Progress Index - Mauritania (click "By Component" for different themes)
  
• Step-wise Surveillance System (STEPS):
  
• country reports, data books, fact sheets, journal articles, presentations or posters- Mauritania
  
• The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC): Health, Education
  
• The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program - USAID - Mauritania
  
• The Tobacco Atlas - Mauritania (click on "Topics" for different themes)
  
• Tobacco Country Profile (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• UNESCO education country profile - Mauritania
  
• UNICEF statistics (variety of topics) - Mauritania
  
• World Bank Data, Development Statistics - Mauritania
  
• World Bank - Poverty & Equity Data - Middle East & North Africa - Mauritania
  
• World Health Organization data and statistics on Road injury - Mauritania
  
• World Health Survey 2003 (WHO) - Mauritania
  
• WHO UNICEF review of national immunization coverage, 1980-2013 - Mauritania
  
• WHO vaccine-preventable diseases: monitoring system. 2015 global summary -  Mauritania
  
• 2012 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) (please choose "North Africa" below left and then click on "Mauritania" to the right)
  

Programs and Initiatives/Projects

• Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD) (League of Arab States) - Mauritania
  
• Reliefweb -  Mauritania
  
• World Food Programme - Mauritania