Filter
1878
Filtered Results: 1878
Text search:
Disruption
in
essential
health
services
Featured
Recommendations
186
New Publications
366
Language
Document type
No document type
803
Studies & Reports
500
Guidelines
224
Strategic & Response Plan
130
Manuals
113
Situation Updates
33
Training Material
32
Fact sheets
32
Brochures
3
Resource Platforms
3
Infographics
3
Online Courses
2
Countries / Regions
Global
134
Kenya
47
Liberia
46
India
44
Syria
40
Ukraine
39
Sierra Leone
37
Africa
36
Western and Central Europe
35
Nigeria
32
Myanmar / Burma
31
Nepal
29
Ethiopia
28
Latin America and the Carribbean
26
South–East Asia Region
22
Bangladesh
21
South Africa
20
Guinea
19
East and Southern Africa
18
West and Central Africa
17
Yemen
17
Malawi
16
Mozambique
16
Congo, Democratic Republic of
15
Philippines
14
Uganda
14
South Sudan
14
Ghana
13
Zambia
13
Zimbabwe
12
Haiti
12
Somalia
12
Rwanda
11
Eastern Europe
11
Namibia
11
Central African Republic
11
Afghanistan
10
Tanzania
10
Venezuela
9
Middle East and North Africa
9
Senegal
8
Western Pacific Region
8
Brazil
8
Colombia
7
Jordan
7
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
7
USA
6
Cambodia
6
Asia
6
Pakistan
6
Cameroon
5
Laos
5
Lebanon
5
Vietnam
5
Thailand
4
Guinea-Bissau
4
Germany
4
Moldova
4
Russia
4
Sudan
4
Tajikistan
3
Timor Leste/ East Timor
3
Lesotho
3
Turkey
3
Kazakhstan
3
Burkina Faso
3
Sri Lanka
3
Palestine
3
Mali
3
Chad
3
Indonesia
3
Iraq
3
Mexico
2
China
2
Chile
2
Iran
2
Canada
2
Burundi
2
Peru
2
North America
2
Turkmenistan
2
Argentina
2
Egypt
2
Botswana
2
North Korea
1
Serbia
1
Benin
1
Gambia
1
Togo
1
Singapore
1
Estonia
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Uzbekistan
1
Hungary
1
Lithuania
1
France
1
Mauritius
1
United Kingdom
1
Portugal
1
Spain
1
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Greece
1
Bhutan
1
Madagascar
1
Eswatini/ Swaziland
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
577
Key Resources
192
Clinical Guidelines
99
Public Health
95
Women & Child Health
82
Capacity Building
34
Pharmacy & Technologies
11
Annual Report MEDBOX
1
Toolboxes
COVID-19
337
Mental Health
206
Planetary Health
127
Conflict
124
HIV
95
Rapid Response
68
TB
59
Natural Hazards
58
Global Health Education
55
Ebola & Marburg
54
Refugee
47
Disability
41
Health Financing Toolbox
39
Caregiver
32
NCDs
31
NTDs
26
AMR
23
Malaria
19
Specific Hazards
16
Pharmacy
15
Cholera
13
Polio
8
Social Ethics
6
Zika
4
Typhoon
2
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) represent a range of physical, mental, and behavioral disabilities caused by alcohol use during pregnancy, or prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). FASDs are considered to be one of the leading preventable causes of developmental disability. Despite its high preval...
This document is an output of a WHO cross-programme initiative aiming to improve the prevention, diagnosis and management of anaemia and thereby accelerate reduction in its prevalence. It comes at an important time, midway through the era of the Sustainable Development Goals, when progress in reduci...
Rabies is fatal, vaccine-preventable disease responsible for an estimated 59,000 human deaths each year. Most cases are transmitted by dogs, and most deaths occur in underserved populations in Africa and Asia. Approximately 40% of deaths occur in children.
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...
Laboratory biosafety guidance related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Interim guidance, 28 January 2021
recommended
The latest update (28 January 2021) includes the following addition and revision:
biosafety aspects for working with antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic test;
handling new variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory;
updated assay decontamination before disposal;
personal protectiv...
Background
Asthma education, a key component of long-term asthma management, is challenging in resource-limited settings with shortages of clinical staff. Task-shifting educational roles to lay (non-clinical) staff is a potential solution. We conducted a randomised controlled trial of an enhanced a...
NSW Disaster Mental Health Handbook 4
The Disaster Mental Health Manual and associated handbooks are intended as a resource for mental health staff who are seeking background information and practical guidance and resources to assist in a disaster mental health response.
Since the launch of the 2012–2020 World Health Organization (WHO) road map for the control, elim-ination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (1), considerable progress against NTDs has been made. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people requiring interventions against NTDs glo...
The WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region bears a high burden of tuberculosis (TB) and MDR-TB. In 2015, the Region accounted for nearly 200 000 or 35% of the global estimated new RR/MDR-TB cases eligible for treatment. Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDRTB) has also been reported from s...
Male circumcision reduces a man’s risk of heterosexual acquisition of HIV by about 60%. This guideline provides an evidence-based recommendation on the use of adult male circumcision devices for HIV prevention in public health programmes in high HIV prevalence, resource-limited settings. It also p...
Guidance on TB and TB/HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care in the workplace
Birth defects surveillance: quick reference handbook of selected congenital anomalies and infections
This Quick Reference Handbook of Selected Congenital Anomalies and Infections is a companion tool to Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers, and is intended for use by front-line health care professionals who are diagnosing and collecting data on congenital defects and infection...
The first important change is a new priority ranking of the available medicines for MDR-TB treatment, based on a careful balance between expected benefits and harms. Treatment success for MDR-TB is currently low in many countries. This could be increased by improving access to the highest-ranked med...
Guide for coordinators and data collectors - The WHO Operational Package for Assessing, Monitoring and Evaluating Country Pharmaceutical Situations is intended as a useful tool for researchers, policy-makers, planners and others who need to use standardized measurement tools to gather data and other...
The World Health Organization organized a Consultation of National Leprosy Programme managers, partners and affected persons to discuss the draft Global Leprosy Strategy, 2021--2030. This virtual event took place from 26 to 30 October 2020. It was attended by more than 450 stakeholders. Contribution...
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) practitioners, decision-makers, and partners to plan and implement readiness and response activities for yellow fever outbreaks. The toolkit conta...
Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers, second edition: web annex A: protocol for evaluating minimum package of care of morbidity management and disability prevention for lymphoedema management in designated health facilit...
Module 4
Leaders
July 2017
Module 4: Leaders. This module aims to inform and update leaders and decision-makers about PrEP. It provides information on the benefits and limitations of PrEP so that they can consider how PrEP could be effectively implemented in their own settings. It also contai...
The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir...
This report is primarily intended for the community of policymakers and researchers concerned about the rising risks of domestic, regional, and global infectious disease epidemics, and the collective failure to take the coordinated actions required to reduce such risks. These risks include the expec...
