Filter
6622
Filtered Results: 6622
Text search:
health
authorities
Featured
Recommendations
623
New Publications
1693
Language
Document type
No document type
3401
Studies & Reports
1138
Guidelines
925
Manuals
404
Strategic & Response Plan
292
Fact sheets
158
Training Material
124
Situation Updates
114
Resource Platforms
20
Infographics
16
Online Courses
14
Brochures
11
Dashboards/Maps
3
Videos
2
Countries / Regions
Global
289
India
216
Western and Central Europe
172
Sierra Leone
139
Liberia
138
Myanmar / Burma
125
Kenya
121
Syria
117
Latin America and the Carribbean
110
Nigeria
108
Ethiopia
103
Uganda
98
Ukraine
97
Congo, Democratic Republic of
90
Rwanda
86
Africa
84
Bangladesh
83
Nepal
79
South Africa
71
Ghana
66
Malawi
65
Tanzania
63
South Sudan
61
South–East Asia Region
59
Zambia
58
Guinea
57
Eastern Europe
53
Yemen
49
West and Central Africa
46
Venezuela
43
Mozambique
40
Asia
40
Haiti
39
Cambodia
39
Senegal
37
East and Southern Africa
37
Zimbabwe
36
Middle East and North Africa
35
Germany
34
Namibia
34
Lesotho
33
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
33
Philippines
32
Indonesia
32
Burkina Faso
28
Colombia
27
Central African Republic
27
Afghanistan
25
Brazil
25
Cameroon
22
Sudan
22
Western Pacific Region
21
Russia
21
Pakistan
21
Mali
20
Botswana
20
Somalia
20
Lebanon
19
Madagascar
19
Jordan
18
Vietnam
17
Iraq
17
Moldova
16
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
14
Tajikistan
13
Thailand
13
China
13
Laos
13
Niger
12
Eswatini/ Swaziland
12
Benin
11
Palestine
11
Turkey
10
Chile
10
Peru
10
Iran
9
USA
9
Chad
9
Togo
8
Albania
8
Greece
8
Angola
8
Libya
8
North Macedonia
7
Mexico
7
Guinea-Bissau
7
Georgia
7
Kazakhstan
6
Kyrgyzstan
6
Burundi
6
Jamaica
6
Egypt
6
Poland
6
Ecuador
6
El Salvador
5
Serbia
5
Italy
5
North America
5
Turkmenistan
5
Tunisia
5
Spain
5
Bolivia
5
Papua New Guinea
5
Sri Lanka
5
Romania
5
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Gambia
4
Morocco
4
Hungary
4
Saudi Arabia
4
Paraguay
4
United Kingdom
4
Portugal
4
Southern Africa
4
Argentina
4
Fiji
3
Uzbekistan
3
Malaysia
3
Qatar
3
Mauritania
3
Armenia
3
Croatia
3
Belarus
3
Israel
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3
Nicaragua
3
Djibouti
3
Honduras
3
Bhutan
3
Guatemala
3
North Korea
2
Switzerland
2
Australia
2
Estonia
2
Vanuatu
2
Mongolia
2
Bulgaria
2
Dominican Republic
2
Lithuania
2
Japan
2
France
2
Mauritius
2
Azerbaijan
2
French Guyana
2
Singapore
1
Congo-Brazzaville
1
Austria
1
Gabon
1
Denmark
1
Maldives
1
Norway
1
South Korea
1
Algeria
1
Morocco
1
Slovakia
1
Solomon Islands
1
Cuba
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2034
Clinical Guidelines
558
Public Health
395
Key Resources
393
Women & Child Health
380
Capacity Building
138
Pharmacy & Technologies
97
Annual Report MEDBOX
1
Toolboxes
COVID-19
781
HIV
424
Mental Health
420
TB
321
Rapid Response
298
Ebola
286
Conflict
270
Planetary Health
246
Disability
233
Refugee
191
AMR
186
NTDs
171
Caregiver
162
Natural Hazards
132
Pharmacy
130
Global Health Education
120
NCDs
76
Zika
73
Specific Hazards
60
Cholera
57
Polio
50
Health Financing Toolbox
42
Social Ethics
15
Typhoon
7
South Sudan
1
Health Financing
1
Anopheles stephensi, a highly competent vector of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, is considered an efficient vector of urban malaria. Until 2011, the reported distribution of An. stephensi was confined to certain countries of South Asia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Since then, the vector ...
This document focuses on the management of patients affected by gambiense HAT and
constitutes an update to the WHO therapeutic guidance issued in 2013. The main changes in recommendations concern the criteria and methods for deciding the treatment among the new set of therapeutic options and the pa...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer deaths among women, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. The Global Breast Cancer Initiative strives to reduce breast cancer mortality by 2.5 percent per year, which over a 20-year period can ...
The development of this target product profile (TPP) was led by the WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) following standard WHO guidance for TPP development. In order to identify and prioritize diagnostic needs, a WHO NTD Diagnostics Technical Advisory Group (DTAG) was form...
Localized cutaneous leishmaniasis and its evolving forms (diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis, mucosal leishmaniasis and cutaneous leishmaniasis recidivans), together with the sequela of visceral leishmaniasis (post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis), account for about one million cases of dermal leishmani...
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 ...
This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on parenting interventions for parents and caregivers of children aged 0–17 years that are designed to reduce child maltreatment and harsh parenting, enhance the parent–child relationship, and prevent poor mental health among parents and emo...
Yaws is a disfiguring non-venereal disease caused by infection with the spirochaete. Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue which is closely related to the causative agent of syphilis and those of the other endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta. The disease is endemic in certain areas of the World...
Every day in 2020, approximately 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth - meaning that a woman dies around every two minutes.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.1 is to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births by ...
An interregional meeting on leishmaniasis among neighbouring endemic
countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, African and European regions was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern
Mediterranean in Amman, Jordan, from 23 to 25 September 2018. The meeting w...
Lateral-flow rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) continue to play a vital role in global health in the management and diagnosis of infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV and COVID-19. Visually interpreted RDTs, more than any other class of diagnostics, fulfil WHO’s ASSURED criteria,1 enabling their...
Sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) violate the rights and wellbeing of the people we serve and the people with whom we serve. Such behaviours are directly in opposition to WHO’s values and our abiding responsibility to do no harm. WHO uses the umbrella term “sexual mi...
As of 12 December 2022, over 645 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with over 6.6 million deaths (4).
The Omicron variant, which emerged in late November 2021, and its subvariants, are now the dominant circulating viruses, contributing to the ongoing surge in several countr...
In the last decade, Timor-Leste has made remarkable progress in strengthening its health system and improving the health status of its population. This has resulted in an increased life expectancy, and the achievement of Millennium Development Goals such as a reduction in infant and under-five morta...
WHO strongly recommends discontinuation of the nerve tissue vaccine, and replacement with modern concentrated and purified cell culture derived vaccines (CCDV) and embryonated eggbased rabies vaccines.
These vaccines must comply with WHO criteria for potency and innocuity following satisfactory ass...
The objective of this concept note and the framework it outlines is the elimination of a group of CDs and the negative health effects they generate, which together create a tangible burden on affected individuals, their families and communities, and on health care systems throughout the Region. Thou...
The conditionality of this recommendation is largely driven by the current higher unit cost of pyrethroid-PBO ITNs compared
to pyrethroid-only LLINs and therefore the uncertainty of their cost-effectiveness. Furthermore, as PBO is less wash-resistant
than pyrethroids, its bioavailability declines ...
Rabies has an enormous impact on both agriculture and conservation biology, but its greatest burden is undeniably on public health. As such, routine methods for rapid risk assessment after human exposures to rabies as well as applications for laboratory-based surveillance, production of biologicals ...
More than 700 000 people lose their life to suicide every year. A core foundation of suicide prevention is the timely registration and regular monitoring of suicide and self-harm. Surveillance data can be used to show important progress towards reaching global targets, such as reducing the suicide r...
The WHO Living guideline: Drugs to prevent COVID-19 contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the use of drugs to prevent COVID-19. The latest version of this living guideline is available in pdf format (via the ‘Download’ button) and via an online platform.
Guidelines ...
