Addressing the threat of antimalarial drug resistance. This year’s report spotlights the growing threat of antimalarial drug resistance. Partial resistance to artemisinin derivatives – the backbone of malaria treatments after failures of chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine – has now b...een confirmed or suspected in at least 8 countries in Africa, and there are potential signs of declining efficacy of some of the drugs that are combined with artemisinin.
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Malgré ces progrès, le paludisme reste toutefois un problème de santé mondial important, avec environ 282 millions de cas et 610 000 décès en 2024, soit environ 9 millions de cas de plus que l'année précédente. La région Afrique de l'OMS continue de supporter la plus grande partie du farde...au, avec 11 pays représentant environ les deux tiers des cas et des décès dans le monde. Les progrès en matière de réduction du taux de mortalité lié au paludisme restent toutefois très insuffisants.
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Este resumen ejecutivo ofrece una visión general completa de los mensajes clave, los datos y las tendencias del Informe mundial sobre la malaria 2025.
The window to 2030, the SDG target year, is closing. Without accelerated and sustained progress, hard-won UHC gains risk being lost. Using revised and improved UHC indicators the report presents the latest available UHC data and concludes with a call to shared action.
Technology and digital tools are transforming everyday life, opening new opportunities for women and girls—but they are also being weaponized to harass, threaten, and silence them online. Technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) is now a defining challenge for gender equal...ity, closely linked to violence offline and shaped by deep-rooted discrimination.
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Why this document? The Waste Value Chain Analysis (WVCA) has been designed to help organizations understand local waste value chains, with the aim: To identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of local waste value chains (e.g. where shredding, baling can make recovery profitable) and much more
This chapter describes the step-by-step process required in performing an epidemiologic field investigation. The 10 steps covered here build on and further refine the steps that have been taught traditionally in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) annual Epidemic Intelligence Serv...ice courses, in the three previous editions of this manual (the textbook Field Epidemiology), and in other CDC instructional programs.
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These pages contain links to critical guidelines, technical documents, tools and resources needed to investigate and respond to outbreaks.
Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) is the world’s leading initiative for open-source intelligence for public health decision-making. It is led by the WHO as part of its constitutional mandate as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work. EIOS is built on... three pillars: a growing global community of practice, a range of multi-disciplinary collaborators and an evolving fit-for-purpose system. The system builds on a long-standing collaboration between WHO and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC).
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The Western Pacific Region, being the most diverse region in the World, is beset by unique public health challenges and is considered a hotspot for outbreaks and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, such as SARS, MERS, avian influenza, Zika and dengue. Currently there are 3 global emergenci...es affecting the Region:
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Data presentation is the basis for describing data and generating hypotheses for further testing. It consists of a number of methods for summarising data in order to support the identification of patterns. Data can be summarised in a number of forms, including tables or graphical representations s...uch as graphs or maps. Effective data presentation requires an understanding of the principles introduced in this guide.
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The DHIS2 Health Data Toolkit is a collection of implementation tools and resources developed in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, CDC and other global health partners to improve the quality and effective use of integrated health information systems at national scale.
Surveillance of influenza virus infection at the European level requires close collaboration between virologists, epidemiologists and sentinel GP networks to generate the data necessary to inform a timely public health response.
Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus is a negatively stranded, enveloped RNA virus and belongs to the Orthopneumovirus genus of the Pneumoviridae family. It is divided into two antigenic groups (subgroups) hRSV A and hRSV B] The genome is 15 kb long with 10 gene transcripts encoding 11 proteins of wh...ich the G glycoprotein and the fusion (F) glycoprotein are major surface proteins that function in attachment. Antigenic groups can be further divided into 16 RSV-A and 22 RSV-B genotypes based on the sequence variability of the second hypervariable region (HVR2) of the distal third region of the G gene.
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Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a strategy adopted by countries in the WHO African Region for implementing comprehensive public health surveillance and response systems for priority diseases, conditions and events at all levels of health systems. Successful implementation will... require a well-trained, competent and dedicated workforce
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In response to the growing necessity for accurate and timely information regarding deaths categorized by age, sex, and cause of death, underscored by the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) developed the Continental Framework d...esigned to fortify mortality surveillance within the African Union Member States. This Operational Guide is a comprehensive companion, delineating specific activities harmonized with the framework.
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The Outbreak Toolkit is specifically designed for epidemiologists and field investigators operating at the frontline of complex emergencies and in resource-limited settings. It provides a comprehensive, up-to-date toolkit for investigating both infectious disease outbreaks and non-infectious events ...and hazards. By offering standardized tools, the Toolkit addresses the critical need for data consistency and facilitates effective data sharing across teams, locations, and timeframes. It serves as an essential asset for public health professionals confronting the unique challenges of outbreak response in demanding environments.
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