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Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in the African Region
recommended

World Health Organization; Regional Office for Africa (2019) C_WHO

3rd edition. The third edition of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) Technical Guidelines was prepared by the WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme with the active participation and involvement of programmes dealing with disease surveillance at the WHO Regional Office for Afri ... ca (AFRO), Brazzaville, Congo and with technical reviews provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). more

Ending Cholera. A global roadmap to 2030
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Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) (2017) C_WHO

Ending Cholera—A Global Roadmap to 2030 operationalises the new global strategy for cholera control at the country level and provides a concrete path toward a world in which cholera is no longer a threat to public health

Primary ear and hearing care training resource (ADVANCED LEVEL)

World Health Organization (WHO) (2006) C_WHO

Technical series on adapting to climate-sensitive health impacts: Diarrhoeal diseases

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This guide presents a basis for understanding how diarrhoeal diseases are currently influenced by climate and weather, and may be further exacerbated by climate change. It is a technical guide on how to conduct a Vulnerability & Adaptation assessment for diarrhoeal diseases and climate change, and p ... rovides guidance on how to: identify populations and regions vulnerable to diarrhoeal diseases and the reasons for their vulnerability; establish relevant baselines that can be analysed and monitored; conduct analyses to project how diarrhoeal diseases may be impacted in the future due to climate change; and identify appropriate responses to mitigate and monitor these risks over time. more

Guidelines for the Management of Typhoid Fever
recommended

Ministry of Health and Child Welfare,Zimbabwe; WHO; European Commission Humanitarian Aid (2011) C_WHO

National Guideline Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Nepal

Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population (2011) C1

Fourth Edition

The Guide for Training Community Health Workers

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Government City - Mtumba (2021) CC2

For many years, Community Health Care Workers (CHWs) in Tanzania and Africa in general have played significant role in community health promotion. Their specific roles have been changing from time to time. However, their key roles have over time included giving health education and dissemination of ... health information to communities, invariably moving on to include other services such as offering curative services and conducting community surveys. Deployment of CHWs has mainly been a response to the severe shortage of the human resource for health in most African countries due to brain drain for various reasons that include unattractive terms and conditions of employment. On the other hand the human resources for health (HRH) is a result of positive growing demand for health services, a situation confronted by inadequate supply of trained health personnel from training institutions to meet the demand. more