Filter
2215
Filtered Results: 2215
Text search:
Howse,
E.
Featured
Recommendations
161
New Publications
668
Language
Document type
No document type
1439
Studies & Reports
346
Guidelines
182
Manuals
115
Strategic & Response Plan
47
Training Material
37
Fact sheets
20
Situation Updates
19
Brochures
4
Infographics
4
Resource Platforms
2
Countries / Regions
India
146
Global
90
Kenya
64
Nigeria
60
Nepal
57
Sierra Leone
55
Ethiopia
50
Liberia
49
Uganda
47
Bangladesh
43
Western and Central Europe
42
Myanmar / Burma
39
Ghana
31
South Africa
31
Malawi
30
Tanzania
28
Philippines
27
Zambia
26
Ukraine
25
Rwanda
25
Germany
25
Latin America and the Carribbean
23
Syria
21
Zimbabwe
21
Africa
20
Namibia
20
South Sudan
16
Mozambique
15
Asia
15
Guinea
14
Eastern Europe
14
Indonesia
14
Brazil
13
Russia
13
Lesotho
12
Afghanistan
12
Haiti
12
Congo, Democratic Republic of
12
South–East Asia Region
12
Venezuela
11
Botswana
11
Cambodia
10
Pakistan
10
Senegal
9
East and Southern Africa
9
Eswatini/ Swaziland
8
Cameroon
7
Colombia
6
Thailand
6
USA
6
West and Central Africa
6
Yemen
6
Jordan
5
Middle East and North Africa
5
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
5
China
4
Burkina Faso
4
Peru
4
Vietnam
4
Sri Lanka
4
Tajikistan
3
Timor Leste/ East Timor
3
Turkey
3
Laos
3
Niger
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Paraguay
3
North America
3
United Kingdom
3
Romania
3
Georgia
3
Poland
3
Angola
3
Madagascar
3
North Macedonia
2
Albania
2
Portugal
2
Spain
2
Israel
2
Southern Africa
2
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
2
Papua New Guinea
2
Moldova
2
Sudan
2
Palestine
2
Chad
2
Bhutan
2
Iraq
2
Mexico
1
Benin
1
Chile
1
Iran
1
Canada
1
Burundi
1
Italy
1
Armenia
1
Dominican Republic
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Croatia
1
Hungary
1
Gabon
1
Uruguay
1
Belgium
1
France
1
Belarus
1
Argentina
1
Lebanon
1
Central African Republic
1
Honduras
1
Mali
1
Libya
1
Somalia
1
Ecuador
1
Guatemala
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Studies & Reports
211
Guidelines
142
Policies
138
Women & Child Health
90
Demograhic Health Surveys DHS
84
Community Health
74
Policies & Guidelines HIV & TB
72
COVID-19
68
Capacity Building
63
Humanitarian Crisis
57
Disabilities
55
Drugs & Medical Equipment
53
Statistics
40
Disease Prevention & Control
31
Disaster Preparedness
26
Humanitarian Aid
26
General Guidelines
24
WASH
22
Non-communicable Diseases
22
Age & Elderly
18
Water
17
Information, Education and Communication (IEC)
16
Countries
15
Gynaecology & Obstetrics
15
Food Security & Nutrition
15
Needs Assessment
14
Child Health
13
Community Health
13
Sexual Violence
12
Pediatrics
12
Child protection
12
Maternal Health
12
TB
12
Mental Health
11
Protection & Security
11
Paediatrics
10
Sanitation
10
Maternal & Child Health
10
Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
10
Public Health
9
Vector Control
9
Malaria
9
Reproductive Health
9
Under-5 nutrition
8
General Guidelines
8
Palliative Care
8
Vaccine-preventable Diseases
8
Palliative Care
8
NTDs & Others
8
Primary Health Care
8
Key Resources
8
Communicable Diseases
7
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
7
NCD
7
Clinical Guidelines
7
Waste Management
7
Surgery & Anaesthesia
7
Neonatal Care
7
Monitoring & Evaluation
6
Hygiene Promotion
6
Dental & Eye Care
5
Family Planning
5
Hand Hygiene
5
Infection Control & Prevention (IPC)
5
Chagas
5
Leprosy
5
HIV & STI
5
Hepatitis
4
Dermatology
4
Cancer
4
Virology
4
Menstrual Hygiene Management
4
Public Health
4
Snakebites
4
Humanitarian Aid
4
Training Manuals
4
Other
4
Health Systems
4
Leprosy
4
Women & Child Health
4
Leishmaniasis
4
Laboratory Quality Assurance
4
Global Health
4
Clinical Training
3
Rabies
3
Diabetes
3
Gender
3
Neurology & Psychology
3
Sex. & Repr. Rights
3
Cardiovascular Diseases
3
Medical Devices & Equipment
3
Yellow Fever
3
Respiratory Infections
3
COPD/Asthma
3
Parasitology
3
Digital Health
2
Helminthiasis
2
Pharmacy & Technology
2
Buruli Ulcer
2
Project Cycle Management
2
Bacteriology
2
Laboratory Waste
2
Capacity Building
2
Planetary Health
2
Cervical Cancer
2
Cancer Treatment & Resources
2
Pharmaceutical Assessments
2
Violence against Children
2
Hemorrhagic Fever
2
Diarrhoeal Disease/Cholera
2
Immunization
2
Communicable Diseases
2
Fecal Disposal / Latrines
2
Neurology & Psychology
2
Dengue
2
Disabilities & Inclusion
2
Zika
1
Yaws
1
Hematology
1
Trachoma
1
Schistosomiasis
1
Lymphaticfilariasis
1
Breast Cancer
1
MPOX - Monkeypox
1
Disabilities
1
Mental Health
1
Yersinia pestis (Plague)
1
Health System Strengthening
1
Diarrhoea
1
Quality Control & Assurance
1
Female Genital Mutilation
1
Human African Trypanosomiasis
1
Toolboxes
Country specific documents
52
Children/Adolescents Mental Disorders
30
IACAPAP International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions
25
Community-based Mental Health Care
22
Reports & Studies
22
Substance Use Disorders & Addiction
17
Eastern Europe and central Asia
17
Assessment & Studies
16
Country specific
16
Climate Change General
16
Children with Disabilities
15
Neurological Disorders
15
Social Mobilisation
14
Shelter & Reconstruction
14
Education
14
Assessment & Response
14
Assessment & Response
14
Public Health
13
Human Rights
13
Best Practice Models
12
Studies & Reports
12
TB & Other Vulnerable Populations
12
Community Health Workers CHW
12
Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
11
Training Manuals
11
mhGAP Guides
11
Global Impact: Socio-economic, health services, TB & HIV
11
Psychosocial Support
11
TB & Prisoners
11
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
11
Policy
10
HIV in Key Populations
10
Mental Health GAP Action Programme
10
Policies & Programmes
9
Substance Use Disorders, Others
9
Assessment & Response
9
General Studies & Reports
9
Climate & Health
9
Prevention & Preparedness
9
Diagnostics & Laboratory Guidance
9
Children's Rights
9
War, Conflict Areas & Refugees
9
Action Plans, Policies & Response
9
Adults
8
Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination
8
Communication & Training
8
Health & Refugee
8
Overview, Studies & Reports
8
Language Teaching
8
Roadmaps, Action Plans & Policies
8
Disaster Preparedness & Prevention
8
WASH
8
War & Conflict
7
Studies & Reports
7
Prevention & Control
7
Children
7
Inclusion
7
Discrimination & Stigma
7
Advocacy & Communication
7
Planetary Health
7
Urban health
7
Waste Managment
7
Detection & Diagnosis
7
Asia
7
others
7
General
7
Assistive devices & technologies
7
International
7
Tobacco
7
Guidelines CBR
7
Lobby and Advocacy
7
Training & Capacity Building
7
Africa
6
Disability Rights & Convention
6
Natural Disaster
6
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
6
TB & Drug Abuse
6
Accessibility
6
Inclusion in Humanitarian Settings
6
Faith-based Organizations
6
Key Resources
6
Children & Adolescents
6
Context & Facts
6
Interculturality
6
Stroke
6
Social Worker
6
Mental Health
6
Training Supporting Material mhGAP
6
Mental Health Guidelines
6
Epilepsy
6
Sustainable Development Goals
6
Clinical Guidelines
6
Infection Control General
6
Country Specific
6
Appeals and Response Plans
6
Gender Aspects
6
Handbooks & Manuals
6
Clean air
6
Rational use of Medicine
6
Humanitarian Crisis
6
General
6
Health Financing Toolbox
6
Women
6
Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia
6
Protection
6
Disease Prevention & Control
6
Asia
6
Training
6
Dengue Prevention & Control
6
Psychosocial Support
6
MHPSS Guidelines
6
Studies & Reports
6
HIV testing & services
5
Policies & Strategies
5
Context, Facts & Travel Advice
5
Transgender People
5
Wheelchair Service and Management
5
General Mental Health Guidelines
5
Children with disabilities
5
Curricula & Core Competencies
5
Africa
5
Cholera Prevention & Control
5
Latin America
5
Mental Health Studies & Reports
5
Risk Communication & Community Engagement
5
Training, others
5
Child Protection
5
Children & Mental Health
5
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
5
Structural Violence
5
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
5
Situation Reports& Updates
5
Biodiversity shift
5
Agriculture
5
Supply Chain & Store Management
5
Biogeochemical flows
5
Epilepsy
5
Climate Change
5
Health Impact & Climate Change
5
Chagas
5
Studies & Reports
5
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
5
Studies & Reports
5
Studies & Reports
5
Prevention & Strategies
5
Clinical Aspects & Diagnosis
5
Global Overview
5
Drug resistant TB
5
Zika Prevention & Control
5
Depression
5
Volunteers
5
Neurological disorders, Others
5
Preparedness & Prevention
5
Outbreak Prevention & Control
4
Treatment Guidelines
4
ART Drug Resistance
4
Communication & Training
4
Intellectual Disability
4
Surveillance
4
Agriculture & Veterinary
4
Surveillance
4
Background PTSD in children
4
Clinical Aspects
4
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
4
Violence & Protection
4
Natural Disasters
4
Mental Health
4
Diagnosis & Treatment PTSD in Children
4
Opportunistic Infections
4
Schizophrenia
4
Latin America
4
Vaccination
4
Children
4
Health Equity & Equality
4
Women's Mental Health
4
Key Resources
4
Treatment Guidelines
4
Human Rights
4
Protection of Vulnerable Groups
4
Health Care Professionals & Spirituality
4
Children & Mental Health
4
Hospital Readiness/Essential Health Services
4
Situation Reports COVID-19
4
RCCE Guides & Manuals
4
Waste Management
4
Studies & Reports
4
Nurses
4
Quality Assurance
4
General documents One Health
4
Mental Disorders
4
Environment
4
Zoonoses
4
WASH Water Sanitation & Hygiene
4
General Information
4
Asia and Pacific
4
Hearing Loss & Deafness
4
Technical Information
4
Bipolar Affective Disorders
4
Malnutrition
4
For Community Health Workers
4
Research & Access
4
Self-harm & Suicide
4
Training
4
Clinical Guidelines
4
Overview & Statistics
4
WASH
4
Psychosocial Support
4
Safe Burials
4
SEAR (South-east Asia Region)
4
Alcohol
3
Integration
3
Local Action
3
Global Mental Health
3
Inclusion
3
Early Warning
3
Statistics & Data
3
Ukraine
3
Dictionaries & Interpreting
3
Germany
3
Policies
3
Clinical Guidelines
3
Hepatitis
3
Eastern Europe
3
HIV
3
TB
3
Training
3
Training Material
3
Rwanda
3
Laboratory & Sampling
3
Manuals
3
International
3
Laboratory
3
Situation Reports & Updates
3
Studies
3
Health Personnel
3
General
3
Infection Prevention & Hygiene
3
Context & Facts, Travel Advice
3
COVID-19
3
Clinical Guidelines
3
For Migrants & Refugees
3
Paediatrics
3
Child Friendly Spaces (CFS)
3
MHPSS – Psychosocial Support
3
Oxygen Therapy
3
Access & Strategy
3
TB/HIV
3
Fair Allocation & Ethical Aspects
3
Genomic sequencing
3
Primary Care
3
Midwives
3
Reports
3
Pharmacy Practice
3
Traditional & Herbal Medicines
3
Pediatrics
3
Women & Maternal Health
3
Cancer
3
Land-system change
3
Disaster, Migration and Conflict
3
Pharmacovigilance
3
Guidelines & Manuals
3
Public Health
3
Mental Health
3
Others
3
Ethics
3
Statistics & Facts
3
Studies & Reports
3
Studies & Reports
3
Prevention & Control
3
Vector control
3
General Information & Methodology
3
Studies & Reports
3
Clinical Guidelines
3
Training Material
3
Cerebral Palsy
3
Autism
3
Situation Reports & Updates
3
Human Rights & the Right to Health
3
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
3
Assessment & Response
3
Reproductive Health
3
Public Health Administration
3
IEC
3
Chikungunya Prevention & Control
3
Anxiety Disorders
3
Stigma
3
Best Practice Examples
3
Refugees & Migrants
3
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
3
Laboratory & Diagnostics
3
Universal Health Coverage & Primary Health Care
3
Food & Nutrition
3
Risk Communication & Community Engagement
3
Gender Aspects
2
Drugs
2
Behaviour Change/Life Skill Education
2
HIV in Children and mental health
2
General Reports
2
Childhood TB
2
Laboratory Guidance
2
Posttraumatic stress disorder Adults
2
IPC
2
Moldova
2
Training
2
Communication & Training
2
Europe
2
Yellow Fever
2
Vector Control
2
International
2
Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
2
WASH
2
South Sudan
2
Influenza
2
Measures ICF/ Model Disability Survey
2
Humanitarian Crisis
2
Refugee
2
Training
2
Videos & Online Courses
2
Germany
2
Stigma & Discrimination
2
El Niño
2
People who injecting Drugs
2
Technical Information
2
IEC Material Mental Disorders
2
Reports
2
Russia
2
General
2
Context & Facts
2
Cannabis
2
Clinical Aspects
2
Hand Hygiene
2
PPE Personel Protective Equipment
2
Surveillance & Contact tracing
2
Covid-19 & the One Health Approach
2
For General Public & Community
2
Faith-based Organizations
2
For Health Worker
2
Guidelines
2
Scientific & Research Studies
2
Information for the Public
2
Food and Nutrition
2
Catholic Social Teaching (CST)
2
Physical Distancing
2
LGBTI*
2
HIV and COVID-19
2
COVID-19
2
Encyclical Letters
2
Pastoral Care
2
Essential Medicines & Medical Devices
2
At Home
2
Logistics & Supply
2
Others
2
Hand Hygiene
2
Others
2
Ethics
2
Advocacy
2
Overview & reports
2
Strategies
2
HIV &TB
2
General Guidelines for Rational Use
2
Situation Reports & Updates
2
Health Care Systems
2
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
2
Heat
2
Nuclear & Chemical Hazards
2
Humanitarian Aid Guidelines
2
Best Practice Examples
2
Appeals & Response Plans
2
Leishmaniasis
2
Capacity Building & Resources
2
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
2
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
2
Information & Education Material (IEC)
2
Information & Education Material (IEC)
2
Studies & Reports
2
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
2
NTDs General
2
Health Worker
2
Official Development Assistance
2
Prevention & Strategies
2
Prevention & Strategies
2
Air Pollution
2
Conflict
2
Co-Morbidities (except TB)
2
Contact Tracing
2
Zika
2
General
2
Malawi
2
IEC
2
IEC Material Children
2
Miscellaneous
2
Diarrhoea
2
Situation Reports & Updates
2
Urbanization
2
IEC Materials Children
2
Assessment
2
Testing Guidelines
2
TB/HIV Coinfection
2
Orientation Guides
2
Planetary Health
2
Infection Control
2
Preparedness & Prevention
2
Global Health Financing
2
Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
2
Capacity Building
2
Prisoners
2
Social Determinants of Health
2
Eastern and Southern Africa
2
Public Health
2
Global Health Ethics
2
Urban Health
2
Cyclones Idai & Kenneth
2
Communication & Social Mobilisation
1
Violence & Child Trafficking
1
Health Systems
1
Cholera Situation Reports
1
Policies & Strategies
1
HIV support organizations
1
Biosafety
1
Advocacy
1
IEC Materials General
1
Information & Education Material (IEC)
1
Ebola Prevention & Control
1
People with Handicaps
1
Clinical Aspects, Treatment & Prevention
1
Chemical Attacks
1
Treatment & Prevention
1
Hand Hygiene
1
Dental Health
1
Vaccines & Immunization
1
Yellow Fever Prevention & Control
1
Explosives
1
Training
1
Influenza Prevention & Control
1
Physical Disability
1
South Africa
1
For Project Management
1
Prevention Guidelines
1
High Risk Groups
1
Eastern Mediterranean Region
1
HIV testing & disclosure
1
Training Manuals
1
Opoids
1
Public Health
1
Treatment Guidelines HIV
1
Namibia
1
Natural Hazards
1
Legislative Texts
1
Concepts of Global Health
1
Orphans & vulnerable children
1
Laboratory
1
Drug resistance
1
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
1
South Sudan
1
For Health Professionals
1
Prevention & Control
1
Global
1
Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
1
Prophylaxis
1
Adherence
1
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
1
Standard Precautions
1
Ebola
1
Syria
1
Advocacy
1
Georgia
1
Priority Assistive Products
1
Public Health
1
Child Health / Pediatrics
1
Country Guidelines
1
Training
1
Communication
1
GO pre-deployment training
1
Workplace
1
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
1
Stress
1
Sex Worker
1
Toolkit on disability for Africa
1
Topics
1
Supporting tools
1
Risk Communication
1
Online Courses & Resources
1
Public Health
1
Poster & Infographics
1
Video & Audio
1
Risk Communication & Community Engagement
1
For Parents & Children
1
For Pregnant Women
1
Simulations
1
For Older People
1
Humanitarian Aid
1
Camps and Camp-like Settings
1
Resource Platforms others
1
Social Ethics
1
Principles of Solidarity
1
Educational Settings
1
COVID-19
1
General Background
1
Infection Control & Prevention (IPC)
1
General
1
Mental Health
1
Stigmatisation
1
Blood Supply
1
Mythbusters/Misinformation
1
Tips & Best Practice Examples
1
Vaccine Candidates & Research
1
COVID-19 Vaccination
1
Gambling
1
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)
1
Environmental NPIs
1
Long-term Care Facilities
1
TB/COVID-19
1
SARS-CoV-2 Variants
1
Vaccine Hesitancy & Myths
1
Biontech/Pfizer Comirnaty
1
Hygiene
1
Capacity Building
1
Online Courses
1
Internet Resources
1
Stress
1
Extreme Situations
1
Others
1
Health Promotion
1
Palliative Care
1
Colombia
1
Overview
1
Brazil
1
Pocket Cards
1
Triage
1
Resources Kreyol Earthquake Haiti
1
Guidelines General
1
Planetary Boundaries
1
Food environments
1
Mobility
1
Essential Medicines
1
Essential Medicines & Devices Lists
1
Falsified & Substandard
1
Pharmaceutical Assessments
1
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
1
Resuscitation
1
Spirituality
1
Intensive Care Unit
1
Surgery
1
Agriculture incl. animal husbandry
1
Reports & Studies
1
Ukraine
1
Education Principles
1
Psychosocial Support
1
Planetary Boundaries Overview
1
Waste management
1
Global Impact of war
1
MPOX - Monkeypox
1
MPOX - Monkeypox
1
MPOX -Monkeybox Prevention & Control
1
NTDs
1
Strategies & Roadmaps
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
1
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
1
Information & Education Material (IEC)
1
Information & Education Material (IEC)
1
Statistics & Facts
1
Statistics & Facts
1
Statistics & Facts
1
Studies & Reports
1
Studies & Reports
1
Studies & Reports
1
Patient Safety
1
Policies & Strategies
1
Leptospirosis
1
Onchocerciasis
1
Snakebite envenoming
1
Yaws & other Endemic Treponematoses
1
Prevention & Control
1
Access to treatment and laboratory
1
Domestic Resource Mobilization
1
General Information & Methodology
1
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Clinical Aspects & Diagnosis
1
Studies & Reports
1
Statistics & Facts
1
Clinical Aspects & Diagnosis
1
Gynaecological Cancers
1
Information & Education Material (IEC)
1
General
1
Romania
1
War Surgery & Wound Care
1
Policies and guidelines
1
CBM Inclusive Project Cycle Management Training
1
Bioterrorism
1
Ghana
1
Community Worker
1
General Aspects
1
National Emergency Response Plans
1
Modules
1
Mental Health
1
Prevention
1
AR (African Region)
1
Context & Facts
1
Nutrition
1
IEC Material Children HIV
1
Technical Information
1
Germany
1
Poster
1
Situation Reports & Updates
1
Disability (CBR)
1
Health Care Systems
1
Latin America & the Carribean
1
Clinical Guidelines
1
General Public
1
Situation Reports
1
HIV and coinfection
1
Global Health Institutions and Stakeholders
1
Tajikistan
1
HIV service delivery
1
Western & Central Europe
1
Cholera
1
AmR (Region of Americas)
1
Best Pratice Examples
1
TB
1
Reports & Studies Children HIV
1
Key Resources
1
Kenya
1
Situation Reports, others
1
Key Resources
1
Germany
1
Situation Reports & Updates
1
Public Health
1
Capacity Building
1
Reproductive Health
1
Plague Prevention & Control
1
Communication & Training
1
Global Burden of Disease
1
Vaccination
1
Blue Book. The Medical Guide for our Projects
recommended
9th edition; 4th English edition 2020
Notable progress has also been made on other key health indicators such as reducing maternal, infant and child deaths and malnutrition, increasing immunization coverage, eliminating infectious diseases such as polio and reducing the incidence of malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhoeal diseases.
But ...
WHO Guidelines for malaria
recommended
25 Nov 2022
The WHO Guidelines for malaria bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria in one user-friendly and easy-to-navigate online platform.
The WHO Guidelines for malaria supersedes 2 previous WHO publications: the Guidelines for the treatment of mala...
Manual for step-by-step risk management for safely managed sanitation systems. 2nd edition.
This Sanitation safety planning (SSP) manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance to assist in the implementation of the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on sanitation and health and the ...
The compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently neede...
An Action Framework and annexe to Immunization Agenda 2030 (Draft version)
27 January 2021
These guidelines group all recommendations on TB care and support in one document and are complemented by an operational handbook. The guidelines are to be used primarily by national TB programmes, or their equivalents in Ministries of Health, stakeholders and technical organizations working on...
Although Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) have been isolated from a variety of food production animals, they are most commonly associated with ruminants from which we derive meat and milk. Because of the widespread and diverse nature of ruminant-derived food production, coupled with the...
Countries, partners, and donors are committed to
the global elimination of blinding trachoma by 2020.
Achieving this public health milestone requires more
than funding; it requires health personnel with the
right mix of skills, and well supported and managed
health systems. Mass drug administra...
PLoS Neglected Tropical diseases August 16, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009697
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by triatomine insects, first identified in 1909. Chagas disease affects approximately 6–7 million peop...
A key component of elimination is to reduce the number
of unmanaged trachomatous trichiasis cases to less than
1 per 1,000 population in affected areas. This will require
not only a large increase in the number of surgeries
performed, but also improvements in the quality of surgery
and in the e...
In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized Chagas disease (CD; Trypanosoma cruzi infection) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) [1] and included it into the global plan to combat NTDs [2]. The Target 3.3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN/SDG) aims at ending the e...
Epidemiology
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted to humans by infected triatomine bugs, and less commonly by transfusion, organ transplant, from mother to infant, and in rare instances, by ingestion of contaminated food or...
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted to humans by infected triatomine bugs, and less commonly by transfusion, organ transplant, from mother to infant, and in rare instances, by ingestion of contaminated food or drink.1-4 The...
Access to health workers who are fit for purpose, motivated and protected is a fundamental force of health service delivery and the achievement of universal health coverage and the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals. Data and knowledge of the distribution, skill mix and future d...
The aim of this toolkit is to guide countries on how to best estimate their current burden of dengue by combining existing data from dengue surveillance systems with on-going research efforts to measure the community burden
of dengue.
This sourcebook aims to detail why health needs to be part of urban and territorial planning and how to make this happen. It brings together two vital elements we need to build habitable cities on a habitable planet: 1) Processes to guide the development of human settlements – in this document ref...
A clear understanding of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of a particular community is necessary in order to improve control of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT).New screening and diagnostic tools and strategies were introduced into South Sudan, as part of integrated delivery of primar...
During the year 2022, COVID-19 continued to be a significant challenge in Eritrea as in many other countries across the world. As COVID-19 devastated communities around the world, WHO worked with the MoH to strengthen the National and Sub-National health systems in order to meet community needs and ...
Chagas disease (CD) is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. When acquired, the
disease develops in stages. For diagnosis, laboratory confirmation is required, and an extensive assessment of the patient’s health should be performed. Treatment consists of the administration of trypanocidal drugs, which may...
