Immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions to date, saving an estimated 2 to 3 million lives each year. As a direct result of immunization, the world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, and deaths from measles – a major child killer – have declined by 73 per... cent worldwide between 2000 and 2018, saving an estimated 23.2 million children’s lives. The emergence of COVID-19, however, threatens to reverse this progress by severely limiting access to life-saving vaccines.
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28 January 2021. The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance on laboratory biosafety related to the testing of clinical specimens of patients.
It provides insight into WHO’s work that aims to improve the health of the people of the United Republic of Tanzania in collaboration with key stakeholders.
Vol. 2: Clinicians' Guide
Clinicians’ Guide is designed to assist busy medical practitioners in the field with patient management by providing current, essential, practical guidance and background, packaged into a single resource
How should humanitarian organisations prepare and respond to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries?
This Rapid Learning Review outlines 14 actions, insights and ideas for humanitarian actors to consider in their COVID-19 responses. It summarises and synthesises the... best available knowledge and guidance for developing a health response to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income settings as at April 2020
The paper, supported by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, will be updated throughout 2020 to reflect emerging knowledge and evidence on the most effective approaches to respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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A guide for practical implementation in adult and pediatric emergency department and urgent care settings
SAHARA-J: Journal
of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 13:1, 1-7, DOI: 10.1080/17290376.2015.1123646
Healthy me, healthy us: a guide for community members about good health and staying healthy with chronic illness
Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017
WHO working group on HIV incidence assays meeting report
10–11 December 2015
Glion, Switzerland
UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
WHO/HIV/2017.03
Developing protocols for use with refugees
and internally displaced persons
Global efforts to eradicate dracunculiasis have continued to progress, with only 542 cases reported in 2012, as compared with 1058 in 2011. It is a long thread-like worm. It is transmitted exclusively when people drink water contaminated with parasite-infected water fl eas. It is now found in some o...f the most deprived regions of Africa.
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Environmental pollution, protection, quality and sustainability
This updated glossary for malaria aims to improve communication and mutual understanding within the scientific community, as well as with funding agencies, public health officials responsible for malaria programmes, and policy-makers in malaria-endemic countries
A paper presented at the 10th International Congress on Infectious Disease, Singapore
Table of contents
1: Introdução; 2: Considerações para atendimento em situação de pico de demanda em serviços de saúde e alocação de equipes médicas de emergência; 3: Equipes médicas de emergência; 4: Níveis de resposta em situação de pico de demanda por cuidados médicos; 5: Expan...são da capacidade em sistemas de emergência médica pré-hospitalares; 6: Identificação de locais alternativos de assistência; 7: Referências.
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Talking About Corona-19
in English and Vietnamese
Informations for Kids
Training On The Misp For Sexual And Reproductive Health In Crisis Part 2
2nd edition.
The tool kit provides learning objects and curricular content to support the competencies for those proficiency/trainee levels