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Best Practice Guidelines on Emergency Surgical Care in Disaster Situations

World Health Organization WHO, EHT, CPR (2005)

These guidelines have been extracted from the WHO manual Surgical Care at the District Hospital (SCDH), which is a part of the WHO Integrated Management Package on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMPEESC). Refer for details on anaesthesia, ... more

Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use

World Health Organization (2015)

This executive summary contains all the new recommendations that will be incorporated into the fifth edition of the Medical eligibility criteria (MEC) for contraceptive use. In addition to the recommendations themselves, the summary provides an introduction to the guideline, a description of the met ... more

Validation of elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

In 1997, the Fiftieth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA50.29 on the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. Preliminary guidance from WHO printed in 2011 referred to “verification” as the official process by which the achievements of the Global Programme to El ... more

Essential Medicines List for Management of Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Diagnosis
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Updated 10 August 2020 This document presents an essential medicines list (EML) to manage patients in intensive care units (ICUs) with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, which includes active ingredients with dosage form and concentration, ... more

Community health workers to improve uptake of maternal healthcare services: A clusterrandomized pragmatic trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Geldsetzer, P.; Mboggo, E.; Larson, E.; et al. (2019) CC2

PLoS Med 16(3): e1002768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002768 Home delivery and late and infrequent attendance at antenatal care (ANC) are responsible for substantial avoidable maternal ... more

Youth-Friendly Services - A Manual for Service Providers

EngenderHealth (2002)

All young people, including those with special needs and from the most vulnerable groups, have the right to quality health care services. Unfortunately, this right is not a reality, particularly in the case of sexual ... more

Clinical Practices of African Traditional Medicine

Paulo Peter Mhame, Kofi Busia & Ossy MJ Kasilo the African health monitor (2010) C1

In African traditional medicine, the curative, training, promotive and rehabilitative services are referred to as clinical practices. These traditional health care services are provided through tradition a ... more

Ebola: Getting to zero - for communities, for children for the future

(2015)

As slight hints of recovery begin to surface in West Africa, UNICEF is looking at the impact of Ebola on children and the response and work of the affected communities in the report, Ebola: Getting ... more

Facilitator's Training Guide for a Stigma-Free Health Facility

R. Kidd; S. Clay; M. Stockton; et al. USAID From the American People; PEPFAR; Health Policy Project (2015) C2

Policy June 2015 Training Menus, Facilitation Tips, and Participatory Training Modules

Men As Partners - A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators

EngenderHealth; PPASA (2001)

A manual intended for use by Men As Partners (MAP) educators in facilitating workshops on male involvement in reproductive health. Contains a variety of interactive educational activities on such topics as gender and sexuality, male ... more

CH 2: Psychosocial interventions for treatment of behavioural disorders.

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

[Updated 2015] SCOPING QUESTION: What is the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions (including caregiver skills training) for behavioural disorders in children and adolescents?

Lesotho: DRUGS OF ABUSE ACT OF 2008

Parliament of Lesotho (2008) C2

An Act to repeal the Dangerous Medicines Act of 1973,to ensure the availability of certain drugs for exclusive medical, scientific and related purposes, while preventing their abuse; to prevent the diversion from lawful trade of controlled chemicals ... more

Comfort for Kids in the Time of Ebola : Mental Health Liberia

World Bank (2018) C1

The 2014-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia resulted in over 10,000 cases and 5,000 deaths. Recognizing the importance of addressing children’s trauma, the Ebola recovery and re ... more

Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026: Delivering on a Promise

Global Polio Eradication Initiative GPEI; World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The marathon to eradicate polio is on its final lap: the world is more than 99% of the way to success. After millennia of living with poliovirus and suffering the paralysis it causes, today nearly all the world’s people live in polio-free countrie ... more

Diagnostic target product profiles for trachoma surveillance
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In April 2023, it was a public health problem in approximately 40 countries, with an estimated 116 million people at risk and 1.5 million people affected by the late blinding stage o ... more

2015 Size Estimation of Key Affected Populations in the Philippines

Philippines, Department of Health, Epidemiology Bureau (2016) C1

Estimating the size of key affected populations (KAP) provides important data for planning and implementing an effective response to the HIV epidemic. In the Philippines, these KAP include males who have sex with males (MSM), female sex workers (FSW ... more

A Guide to World Food Safety Day 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The fifth World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be celebrated on 7 June 2023 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human ... more

Hand hygiene for all

UNICEF, WHO (2020) C_WHO

Three billion people – 40 per cent of the world’s population – do not have a place in their homes to wash their hands with water and soap. Three quarters of those who lack access to water and ... more