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Fourth annual meeting of the network of Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region: Mundi complex, Yaoundé, 24-26 October 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

n October 2019, WHO convened the first meeting of the Buruli ulcer laboratory network (BU-LABNET) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, bringing together 11 laboratories from nine countries at the Pasteur Centre of Cameroon (CPC), the network’s Coordinating Centre. The network was formally established at th ... more

Prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of new antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis

World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO

Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance in Cameroon

The Cameroon Academy of Sciences (2013) CC

National Policy on Prevention and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2017) C1

The WHO AWaRe (Access, Watch, Reserve) antibiotic book - Infographics

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to global health and development and it contributes to millions of deaths worldwide each year. Inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics are driving an increase in AMR and have a detrimental impact on the effectiveness of these critical medicines. Throug ... more

Standard treatment guidelines organ transplant: Liver (India)

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India (2020) C1

Accessed Febr. 6, 2020

Sierra Leone: National Infection Prevention and Control - Action Plan June 2016 - June 2019

Government of Sierra Leone, Ministry of Health and Sanitation (2015) C1

National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance/Afghanistan

Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2017) C2

AMR is one of the Key priority of the global health security agenda action package, as well as it is one of the commitments of Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan to combat AMR. In Afghanistan because of war and some other political issues the borders of the country are not well secured and well c ... more

WHO manual for organizing a national external quality assessment programme for health laboratories and other testing sites

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

This manual describes some of the strategic, managerial, financial, technical and scientific aspects to be considered in establishing a national EQA programme for clinical laboratories and other testing services at all health care levels

The use of molecular line probe assays for the detection of resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Policy Guidance.

Assessment and planning for medical evacuation by air to the EU of patients with Ebola virus disease and people exposed to Ebola virus

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2014)

National Action Plan for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance: Myanmar 2017-2022

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Myanmar, as a country going through rapid socio-political transition and institutional development also suffers with a high burden of infectious disease. An ongoing challenge has been to effectively reach its 51 million population, most of whom battle tuberculosis, acute respiratory infections, diar ... more

Handbook for Public Health Emergency Operations Center Operations and Management

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

A Public Health EOC (PHEOC) serves as a hub for coordinating the preparation for, response to, and recovery from public health emergencies. The preparation includes planning, such as risk and resource mapping, development of plans and procedures, and training and exercising. The response includes al ... more

Treating Buruli Ulcer: A Review of Prospects for Existing Antibiotics and New Therapeutics

Access Campaign, Médecins sans Frontières (2013)

Revised WHO classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia at health facilities

World Health Organization (2014)

The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces o ... more

Plague manual: epidemiology, distribution, surveillance and control, Chapter 1-2

World Health Organization (1999) C_WHO

Chapter 1-2

European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative Regional TB and MDR-TB Diagnosis Workshop Report

World Health Organization Europe (2017) C_WHO

Copenhagen, Denmark, 24–25 August 2017

Drug-Resistant tuberculosis

E.G. Brown Jr, D.S. Dooley, K. Smith Curry International Tuberculosis Center, State of California, California Health & Human Service Agency, Department of Public Health (2016) C1

A survival guide for clinicans. 3rd edition.

Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance at the Community Level in Africa

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

The strategy recommends that AU Member States should enhance, where feasible, existing COVID-19 surveillance to include: Community-based surveillance to detect symptomatic cases early for treatment and to avert viral transmission; Sentinel surveillance in high-risk populations to detect ... more