Vector Control
Our Recommendations
- Global Malaria Programme operational strategy 2024–2030 (2024)
- Lignes directrices de l'OMS sur le paludisme (2022)
- Guidelines for laboratory and field-testing of long-lasting insecticidal nets (2013)
- Cholera Outbreak Guidelines Preparedness, Prevention and Control (2012)
- Communicable Diseases Control in Emergencies (2005)
New Publications
- Essential and actionable measures for enhancing country preparedness for Viral Haemorrhagic Fever outbreaks in the WHO African Region (2024)
- Targeted and selective strategies in measles and rubella vaccination campaigns: Interim guidance (2025)
- Worldwide rates of diagnosis and effective treatment for cystic fibrosis (2022)
- A comprehensive review of cystic fibrosis in Africa and Asia (2023)
- Global burden of asthma among children (2014)
Filter
808
Featured
Recommendations
24
New Publications
57
Language
Document type
Studies & Reports
272
No document type
126
Guidelines
109
Fact sheets
87
Strategic & Response Plan
54
Infographics
37
Manuals
29
Resource Platforms
22
Videos
18
Training Material
16
Brochures
13
Online Courses
12
Dashboards/Maps
11
Situation Updates
1
App
1
Countries / Regions
Global
386
Africa
85
Latin America and the Carribbean
25
North America
18
South Africa
13
India
10
Asia
8
South–East Asia Region
7
Western and Central Europe
6
East and Southern Africa
5
Malawi
4
USA
4
Ethiopia
4
West and Central Africa
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Brazil
3
Thailand
2
Ghana
2
Sierra Leone
2
China
2
Zimbabwe
2
Guinea
2
Congo, Democratic Republic of
2
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
2
Angola
2
Liberia
2
Nepal
1
Kenya
1
Mexico
1
Turkey
1
Cameroon
1
Syria
1
Nigeria
1
Singapore
1
Senegal
1
Burkina Faso
1
Mozambique
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
1
Jamaica
1
United Kingdom
1
Southern Africa
1
Bolivia
1
Barbados
1
United Arab Emirates
1
Bangladesh
1
Uganda
1
Eastern Europe
1
Russia
1
Namibia
1
Egypt
1
Sudan
1
Poland
1
Mali
1
Chad
1
South Sudan
1
Somalia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Toolboxes
NCDs
549
Rapid Response
46
NTDs
23
Mental Health
12
COVID-19
11
Planetary Health
10
HIV
7
TB
7
Cholera
6
Ebola
5
Zika
5
Global Health Education
5
Natural Hazards
3
Polio
2
Refugee
1
Conflict
1
AMR
1
Due to high routine vaccination coverage, overall counts of diphtheria case have significantly declined in the Western Pacific Region recently. However, diphtheria is still prevalent in several countries and areas of the Region and remains a public health issue due to its high case fatality rate.
...
The ninth WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic tracks the progress made by countries in tobacco control since 2008 and, marks 15 years since the introduction of the MPOWER technical package which is designed to help countries implement the demand-reduction measures of the WHO Framework Conventi...
This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the percentage of total fat in the diet to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain.
This guideline is intended for a wide audience involved in the development, design and implementation of policies and programmes in nutrition and pub...
In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI
The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation.
The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy.
At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...
Pathogen genomic surveillance has become a priority for public health systems in recent years. Genomic sequencing is increasingly being used to characterize pathogens and monitor important public health priorities (e.g. poliovirus, influenza virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Vibrio cholerae, ant...
Diphtherie gibt es auf der ganzen Welt. Früher starben bei Ausbrüchen dieser Infektionskrankheit viele Tausende Menschen, besonders Kinder. Weil die meisten Kinder in Europa geimpft sind, ist die Diphtherie hier seit den 1960er Jahren stark zurückgegangen. In Deutschland gab es lange Zeit nur noc...
The key actions, activities, and approaches in this document are organized within each of the 5Cs (see Table 1 in the PDF) and those of the Strategic preparedness and response plan (SPRP) pillars as follows:
National action plan key activities, prioritized for the current context and the current ...
The Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a living guideline consolidates technical guidance developed and published during the COVID-19 pandemic into evidence-informed recommendations for infection prevention and control (IPC). This living guideline...
Significant progress has been made in the eradication of three priority diseases in the African Region, as a result of extensive collaboration between the Regional Office, WHO country offices and countries. For example, in August 2020, the region was certified free of wild poliovirus. In the area of...
Epidemics and pandemics of infectious diseases are occurring more often, and spreading faster and further than ever, in many different regions of the world. The background factors of this threat are biological, environmental and lifestyle changes, among others. A potentially fatal combination of new...
Epidemics and pandemics of infectious diseases are occurring more often, and spreading faster and further than ever, in many different regions of the world. The background factors of this threat are biological, environmental and lifestyle changes, among others. A potentially fatal combination of new...
This checklist is an operational tool to help national authorities develop or revise national respiratory pathogen (inclusive of influenza and coronaviruses) pandemic preparedness plans.
A cardiac risk calculator is a screening tool to assess your future risk of cardiovascular disease. It uses personal health information to evaluate heart health.
Hypertension is the main risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. Each year 1.6 million deaths befall from cardiovascular disease in the region of the Americas, of which about half a million occur in people under age 70, which is considered premature and preventable death. Hypertension aff...
Global progress against cardiovascular disease (CVD) is flatlining.
Though rates of CVD deaths globally have fallen in the last three
decades, this trend has begun to stall and, without concerted
efforts, is at risk of reversing.
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. There are significant differences in the burden of cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors, across high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries. Cardiac imaging by echocardiography, cardia...
Heart & Circulatory Diseases (Cardiovascular Disease; CVD)
Heart and circulatory diseases is an umbrella term for all diseases of the heart and circulation. It includes everything from conditions that are inherited or that a person is born with, to those that develop later, such as coronary heart d...
This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the percentage of total fat in the diet to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain.
This guideline is intended for a wide audience involved in the development, design and implementation of policies and programmes in nutrition and pub...
La forte augmentation des taux de surpoids et d’obésité1 constitue une menace pour la santé de milliards
de personnes dans le monde. En 2016, plus de 1,9 milliard d’adultes âgés de 18 ans ou plus étaient en surpoid
What you should do as head of school or child centre to prevent cholera:
Educate all staff and pupils on the common cholera transmission routes and how to prevent it.
Educate all kitchen staff on how to handle food and cooking utensils. Emphasis the key points below:
o All kitchen staff MUST wa...
