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COTS (Cholera Outbreak Training and Shigellosis) Program Health Promotion Worker Pocket Card
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COTS Program Cholera Outbreak Training and Shigellosis (2011) CC

The COTS Cholera Outbreak Training and Shigellosis Program Pocket Card provides essential guidelines for health promotion workers to prevent and manage cholera and shigellosis outbreaks. It emphasizes proper sanitation, hygiene practices, safe water handling, and food safety as the primary methods f... more

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How to safely conduct burial of patient who has died from suspected or confirmed Marburg or Ebola viurs disease: field situation

World Health Organization (2014)

This protocol provides information on the safe management of dead bodies and burial of patients who died from suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease. These measures should be applied not only by medical personnel but by anyone involved in the management of dead bodies and burial of suspected o... more

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Guidelines for Handling Decedents Contaminated with Radioactive Materials

Wood MC, DePaolo, F, Whitaker RD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2007) C_CDC

Detonation of a nuclear weapon or activation of a radiological dispersal device could cause radioactively contaminated decedents. These guidelines are designed to address both of these scenarios. They could also be applicable in other instances where decedents’ bodies are contaminated with radioa... more

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Lung function tests in Asthma

Levin, M. National Asthma Education Programme (2012) CC2

Asthma is a very commom condition. It cannot be cured, but can controlled with effective medication, good technique, and good monitoring by the patients are having no or few symptoms, no attacks needingg hospital visits and no or little emergency reliever medication use. Another way of assessing ast... more

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WHO guidelines for clinical management of arboviral diseases: dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Scope: The purpose of this guideline is to assist health care providers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed arboviral disease caused by dengue, chikungunya, Zika or yellow fever viruses. This guideline includes recommendations on the management of patients admitted to health care facilit... more

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Kenya: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Wafula, F.; and E. Gitau (2023) C_WHO

This case study uses the Astana Primary Health Care (PHC) framework to explore the impact of the 2020–21 pandemic on primary health care in Kenya. While the pandemic exposed systemic challenges, such as limited testing capacity, an inadequate supply of PPE, and weak social protection, Kenya's heal... more

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Report of a WHO–FIND meeting on diagnostics for Buruli ulcer

WHO Tecnical Advisory Group and FIND (2018) CC

The meeting was held from 26 to 27 March 2018 to review and discuss the following topics: Advances and challenges in the use of fTLC, and new approaches to detecting mycolactone using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The status of development of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) targeting the MUL... more

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Swachhta Guidelines for Pubic Health Facilities

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India (2015) C1

The objectives of the scheme is to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control practices in public health care facilities, to incentivize and recognize such public healthcare facilities that show exemplary performance in adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control, to... more