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Epidemic meningitis surveillance in the African meningitis belt

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

This document is intended to serve as a reference for national public health policy-makers. It outlines the scope of potential meningitis surveillance strategies that make it possible to obtain the data required for epidemic detection, monitoring of ... more

Managing meningitis epidemics in Africa

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

A quick reference guide for health authorities and health-care workers Revised 2015

Systematic review of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for the diagnosis of meningitis in outbreak response in sub-Saharan Africa

Dr. T. Waite Field Epidemiology Services (Public Health England); WHO= (2014) C_WHO

Report for WHO Meningitis guideline revision Dr Thomas Waite, April 2014 Field Epidemiology Services, Public Health England; UK

Standard operating procedures for surveillance of meningitis preparedness and response to epidemics in Africa

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

Epidemic meningitis is a major public health challenge in the African 'meningitis belt', an area that extends from Senegal to Ethiopia with an estimated total population of 500 million. Since 2002, ... more

Emergency Plan of Action operation update Nigeria: Meningitis Outbreak

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2017) C1

Antibiotic Regimens in meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa

L. Cibrelus World Health Organization (2014) C_WHO

Report for the WHO Meningitis Guideline Revision (May 2014)

Guidelines for diagnosing, preventing and managing cryptococcal disease among adults, adolescents and children living with HIV. Policy brief
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Cryptococcal disease, particularly cryptococcal meningitis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV with advanced HIV disease. It is estimated that it is responsible for nearly 19% of AIDS-related mortality, sec ... more

Pocket book of hospital care for children
recommended

World Health Organization (WHO) (2013) C_WHO

Guidelines for the Management of common childhood Illness. 2nd edition These guidelines focus on the management of the major causes of childhood mortality in most developing countries, such as newborn problems, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, meningitis ... more

Prevention and control of epidemic meningococcal disease in Africa

WHO (2002)

Report of a WHO technical consultation meeting Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Cryptococcal Disease: 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

John R. Perfect, William E. Dismukes, Francoise Dromer, et al. Infectious Diseases Society of America (2010)

Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010; 50:291–322

GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT, PREVENTION & CONTROL OF MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dept. of Health, Republic of South Africa (2011) C1

Factsheet about tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2019) C2

Accessed: 11.03.2019

India: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Specimen processing of CSF, lymph nodes and other tissues for Xpert MTB/RIF

Government of India, Central Tuberculosis Division (2014) C1

Guidelines For Outbreak Control

World Health Organization (2003)

communicable Disease Toolkit

Rapid Health Assessment Protocols for Emergencies

World Health Organization WHO (1999) C_WHO

Nodding syndrome

Scott F. Dowell, James J. Sejvar, Lul Riek, et al. CDC (2013) CC

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 19, No. 9, September 2013

Listeriosis: Clinical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment

Dept. of Health, Republic of South Africa (2017) C1

INDEX-TB GUIDELINES: Evidence Summaries and Guideline Panel Decision Tables Core Group Guideline Meeting

(2016) C1

This document contains: The systematic reviews and GRADE assessments used at the Index-TB Guideline Panel in July 2015; The Evidence to Decision tables that record the Panel’s assessment and recommendations from this meeting