Reprinted from Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, No. 10, october 2010
A guide for health professionals in low-resource settings, Infection Prevention and Control is a must-have manual for nurses, doctors, and health administrators, and especially those in resource-limited settings
Based on our experience of the COVID-19 spread in South Africa we have written a learni...ng chapter on COVID for healthcare workers that has been added to our Infection Prevention and Control book which can be accessed free on https://bettercare.co.za/learn
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Swahili version of Prevention and Management of Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage-PPH. Translation and voice over thanks to Alex Mureithi and Zawadi Machibya and their colleagues at the BBC Swahili Service.
PPH, or excessive bleeding after delivery, accounts for a third of all maternal deaths in sub-S...aharan Africa, although it is widely preventable and treatable.
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The summary of the infection prevention and control (IPC) measures is for anyone providing direct and non-direct care to patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) in health-care facilities (HCFs). Essential IPC measures are also included in the Table which can be used as a stand...-alone tool.
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During the past five decades, the incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold. Some 50–100 million new infections are estimated to occur annually in more than 100 endemic countries, with a documented further spread to previously unaffected areas; every year hundreds of thousands of severe cases ari...se, including 20 000 deaths; 264 disability-adjusted life years per million population per year are lost , at an estimated cost for ambulatory and hospitalized cases of US$ 514–1394, often affecting very poor populations. The true numbers are probably far worse, since severe underreporting and misclassification of dengue cases have been documented.
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This document provides a summary of infection control recommendations when providing direct and non-direct care to patients with suspected or confirmed Filovirus haemorrhagic fever (HF), including Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fevers. These recommendations are interim and will be updated when additi...onal information becomes available.
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“Follow the Voice of Life”
AIDSTAR-One | Case study series October 2011
IPC Training manual Day 2