Our Recommendations
- Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa (2024)
- Tests diagnostiques pour la détection du virus de la variole simienne (orthopoxvirus simien, ou MPXV) (2024)
- Monkeypox: Caring for the skin (2022)
- Landscape of Therapeutics licensed or under development for Mpox (2024)
- Landscape of vaccines licensed or under development for Mpox (2024)
New Publications
- Essential and actionable measures for enhancing country preparedness for Viral Haemorrhagic Fever outbreaks in the WHO African Region (2024)
- Protecting Kids: Mpox Guidelines for Schools (2024)
- Considerations for border health and points of entry for mpox: interim guidance (2024)
- Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa (2024)
- Flyer Mpox (2024)
Filter
518
Featured
Recommendations
102
New Publications
143
Language
Document type
No document type
292
Guidelines
76
Manuals
35
Strategic & Response Plan
27
Infographics
25
Fact sheets
17
Training Material
16
Studies & Reports
13
Online Courses
9
Resource Platforms
6
Videos
2
Countries / Regions
Sierra Leone
18
Guinea
18
Congo, Democratic Republic of
15
Liberia
15
Brazil
14
Africa
13
Rwanda
12
Senegal
12
Latin America and the Carribbean
12
Burkina Faso
11
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
11
Global
9
Russia
9
Mali
9
Germany
8
Western and Central Europe
8
Ghana
7
Mozambique
7
Uganda
7
Angola
7
West and Central Africa
6
Ethiopia
6
Indonesia
6
India
6
Nigeria
5
Portugal
5
Somalia
5
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
4
Paraguay
4
East and Southern Africa
4
South Africa
4
Sri Lanka
4
Kenya
3
Syria
3
Niger
3
Burundi
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Yemen
3
South Sudan
3
Colombia
2
Togo
2
China
2
Cameroon
2
Peru
2
Vietnam
2
Central African Republic
2
Chad
2
Madagascar
2
Nepal
1
Serbia
1
Benin
1
Gambia
1
Iran
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Afghanistan
1
Zimbabwe
1
Italy
1
USA
1
Dominican Republic
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Croatia
1
Tanzania
1
Turkmenistan
1
Japan
1
Spain
1
Azerbaijan
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Bolivia
1
Argentina
1
Bangladesh
1
Honduras
1
Zambia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Key Resources
92
Clinical Guidelines
85
Countries
58
Public Health
49
Pharmacy & Technologies
29
Capacity Building
19
Version 4
The purpose of these standard operating procedures (SOPs) is to offer policy guidance and to provide performance standards on how to respond to any type of poliovirus outbreak or event in a timely and effective manner, and specifically, to stop an outbrea...
his guidance provides interim guidance for the integration of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virologic and genomic surveillance, from sentinel site case enrolment and sampling to the eventual sharing of the virus sequence data, a process known as end-to-end surveillance. This guidance builds on experience...
نظرة عامّة على التقنيّات المستخدمة لمعالجة النفايات المُعدِية والحادّة الناتجة عن مرافق الرعاية الصحيّة
This document provides an overview of specific health care waste technologies for the treatment of solid ...
The Strategy provides a high-level unifying framework to leverage existing capacities, address barriers and strengthen the use of genomic surveillance in the detection, monitoring and response to public health threats. Genomic surveillance is part of the broader surveillance and laboratory system, a...
Emergency health kits
recommended
WHO has developed standardized health kits of medicines and medical supplies to meet different health needs in humanitarian emergencies and disasters.
These kits are developed to provide reliable and affordable medicines and supplies quickly to those in need. The kits are used by United Nations age...
International health regulations (2005): state party self-assessment annual reporting tool, 2nd ed
Second edition.
AVailable in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Portuguese
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,...
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,...
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,...
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,...
Biosafety involves the implementation of containment principles, technologies and practices to prevent unintentional exposure to biological agents. Biosecurity involves the protection, control and accountability of biological materials and information related to these materials and dualuse research,...
This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub-national functional capacities for preparedness. In addition, this policy brief highlights suggested ...
The report reveals that good IPC programmes can reduce health care infections by 70 %. oday, out of every 100 patients in acute-care hospitals, seven patients in high-income countries and 15 patients in low- and middle-income countries will acquire at least one health care-associated infection (HAI)...
Surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing for monkeypox: interim guidance 24 June 2022
recommended
The overall goal of surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing in this context is to stop human-to-human transmission to control the outbreak. The key objectives of surveillance and case investigation are to rapidly identify cases and clusters in order to provide optimal clinical care; to ...
Cases of monkeypox (MPX) acquired in the EU have recently been reported in nine EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands).
Monkeypox (MPX) does not spread easily between people. Human-to-human transmission occurs through close contact ...
19 August 2022. A monkeypox case investigation form (CIF) has been designed as a tool for Member States and researchers to conduct in-depth epidemiological investigation of suspected, probable and confirmed cases of monkeypox. This form allows to collect data prospectively or retrospectively for bot...
