mhGAP Intervention Guide Mental Health Gap Action Programme Version 2.0 for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings
The key updates include: content update in various sections based on new evidence; design changes for enhanced usability; a streamlined and... simplified clinical assessment that includes an algorithm for follow-up; inclusion of two new modules 
- Essential Care and Practice that includes general guidelines and Iminterventions and implementation module to support the proposed interventions by necessary infrastructure and resources; and, revised modules for Psychoses, Child and Adolescent Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Disorders due to Substance Use
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Update of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme
(mhGAP) Guideline for Mental, Neurological and Substance use Disorders May 2015 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in
the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WH...O’s Thirteenth General Programme of
Work 2019–2023 (GPW13). This checklist was developed by the WHO Secretariat of Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) to assist its Member countries  in institutionalizing EIPM. Government agencies (i.e. the staff of the Ministry of Health),
knowledge intermediaries and researchers focused on strengthening EIPM will find in this checklist some key steps and tools to help their work. While the health sector is a key target group for EVIPNet, this tool can be applied by stakeholders from
different social sectors
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The purpose of this Guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations that promote and sustain the undergraduate nursing student’s application of knowledge to practice in a variety of clinical learning environments. The Guideline explores the relationships among and between students and nursi...ng educators, nursing staff, preceptors, and diverse health-care team members, and it considers their influence on the quality of practice education, professional socialization, and nursing excellence.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                WHO published guidance for clinicians and health care decision-makers on the use of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19.
We recommend systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of patients with severe and critical COVID-19. We suggest not to use corticosteroids in the treatment of patients ...with non-severe COVID-19 as the treatment brought no benefits, and could even prove harmful. Treatment should be under supervision of a clinician.
Corticosteroids are listed in the WHO model list of essential medicines, readily available globally at a low cost.  WHO encourages countries to maintain sufficient stocks of corticosteroids to treat COVID-19 and the other disease for which they are effective, while not maintaining excessive stocks which could deny other countries access.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This publication gives a broad vision of what a comprehensive approach to cervical cancer prevention and control means. In particular, it outlines the complementary strategies for comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control, and highlights the neners. This new guide updates the 2006 edition... and includes the recent promising deve
ed for collaboration across programmes, organizations and partl-
opments in technologies and strategies that can address the gaps between the needs for and availability of services for cervical cancer prevention and control.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Many low-resource settings have a shortage of physicians and health workers. (1) In order to provide patient-centred continuous care more effectively, primary care systems can include team-based care strategies in their clinic workflows and protocols. Team-based care uses multidisciplinary teams (wh...ich may involve new staff, or the shifting of tasks among existing staff). Teams can include patients themselves, primary care physicians, and other allied health professionals, such as nurses, pharmacists, counsellors, social workers, nutritionists, community health workers, or others. Teams reduce the burden on physicians by utilizing the skills of trained health workers. Strong evidence shows that team-based care is effective in improving hypertension control among patients in a cost-effective way. (2) Some amount of task shifting/team-based care is already taking place in many settings; this module provides further guidance on how to maximize this approach for greater impact.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Q11. SCOPING QUESTIONS: In people with psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) are recovery-oriented psychosocial strategies enhancing independent living and social skills (such as life skills and social skills training) feasible and effective?
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                (2015)
Scoping question: Are antidepressants (specifically, tricyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) effective and safe in adolescents with moderate-severe depressive disorder for whom psychosocial interventions have proven ineffective?
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Historically,  the  discovery  of  the  sulfa  drugs  in  the 1930s   and   the   subsequent   development   of   penicillin during   World   War   II   ushered   in   a   new   era   in   the treatment  of  infectious  diseases.  Infections  that  were common causes of death and disease in the pre-...antibiotic era  -  rheumatic  fever,  syphilis,  cellulitis  and  bacterial pneumonia - became treatable, and over the next 20 years most  of  the  classes  of  antibiotics  that  find  clinical  use today   were   discovered   and   changed   medicine   in   a profound   way.   The   availability   of   antibiotics   enabled revolutionary   medical   interventions   such   as   cancer chemotherapy, organ transplants and essentially all major invasive  surgeries  from  joint  replacements  to  coronary bypass.  Antibiotics,  though,  are  unique  among  drugs  in that  their  use  precipitates  their  obsolescence.  Paradoxically,  these  cures  select  for  organisms  that  can  evade them,  fueling  an  arms  race  between  microbes,  clinicians and drug discoverers.
Wright BMC Biology 2010, 8:123 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/12
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The purpose of this document is to guide clinicians in the care of patients with or at risk of severe illness from influenza virus infection, including those caused by seasonal influenza viruses, pandemic influenza viruses and zoonotic (novel influenza A) viruses.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Recommandations pour une approche de santé publique
 Programme VIH/SIDA
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to have been infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacilli, and about 5–10% of those infected develop TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’s im...munological status. TB preventive treatment (TPT) given to people at highest risk of progressing from TB infection to disease remains a critical element to achieve the global targets of the End TB Strategy, as reiterated by the second UN High Level Meeting on TB in 2023. Delivering TPT effectively and safely necessitates a programmatic approach to implement a comprehensive package of interventions along a cascade of care: identifying individuals at highest risk, screening for TB and ruling out TB disease, testing for TB infection, and choosing the preventive treatment option that is best suited to an individual, managing adverse events, supporting medication adherence and monitoring programmatic performance.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Supplement to the 2016 consolidated Guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV infection
HIV Treatment
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                SCOPING QUESTION: In adults with established status epilepticus (i.e., seizures persisting after the first-line treatment with benzodiazepines [or benzodiazepines-resistant status epilepticus]), which anti-epileptic medications are associated with cessation of seizures and reduced adverse effects)?
...
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Q14. SCOPING QUESTION: In adults with psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia), what is the comparative effectiveness and safety of second-generation antipsychotic medications?
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is a premalignant lesion that may exist at any one of three stages: CIN1, CIN2, or CIN3. If left untreated, CIN2 or CIN3 (collectively referred to as CIN2+) can progress to cervical cancer. Instead of screening and diagnosis by the standard sequence of cytolo...gy, colposcopy, biopsy, and histological confirmation of CIN, an alternative method is to use a ‘screen-and-treat’ approach in which the treatment decision is based on a screening test and treatment is provided soon or, ideally, immediately after a positive screening test. This guideline provides recommendations for strategies for a screen-and-treat programme
                                                                    more