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Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for South Africa; Primary Healthcare Level 2020 Edition; Department of Health: Republic of South Africa

National Department of Health, South Africa National Department of Health, South Africa (2020) CC2

The "Primary Healthcare Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List" by the South African National Department of Health provides evidence-based guidelines for diagnosing and managing common medical conditions at the primary healthcare level. This document includes treatment protocols ... more

Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

Revised National Guidelines on Mpox

Wasif Malik, M.; et al. National Institute of Health, Pakistan (2024) CC

This document serves to provide interim guidance/ recommendations to carry out mpox surveillance activities mainly case investigation, contact tracing and isolation. For the development of this document WHO, UKHSA and CDC guidelines were referred to and adopted within the country context.

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Primary Trauma Care Manual - A Manual for Trauma Management in District and Remote Locations
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World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists; Royal College of Anaesthetists (2010) CC

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Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response - District Level Training Course - Facilitator Guide

World Health Organization; Regional Office for Africa (2011)

The Facilitator's Guide provides instruction and suggestions for teaching the training modules for the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in the Africa Region, 2nd edition. This training is intended for district level health officers who conduct IDSR activities. Th... more

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GUIDELINES & PROTOCOLS. Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Government of India (2014) C1

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Paediatric emergency triage, assessment and treatment: care of critically-ill children

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Updated Guideline. The Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) guidelines provide guidance on the most common emergency conditions in children presenting at the health facility. These include but are not limited to airway obstruction and other breathing problems; circulatory impairment or ... more

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National Training Package on Paediatric HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment. Participants Handbook. Module 9: HIV and Primary Health Care

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, National AIDS Control Programme, Tanzania (2015) C1

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Supply Chain System for Community Health Programs in Uganda: A Situation Analysis

Ministry of Health, Repulic of Uganda USAID, et al. (2016) C1

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Uganda: Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea - Implementation Guidelines

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; Ministry of Health Uganda (2010) C_WHO

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Uganda: Mid Term Review of the 2010 – 2015 Malaria Strategic Plan

Ministry of Health, Uganda (2014) C1

Nepal: Hospital Management Strengthening Program (HMSP)

Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population Curative Services Division (2015) C1

Liberia: Revised National Community Health Services Strategy and Plan 2011-2015

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia (2011) C1

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Hospital Management Strengthening Program (HMSP). Checklist To Identify the Gaps in Minimum Service Standards (MSS) of District Hospitals
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Ministry of Health, Nepal (2017) C1

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Namibia: Training of Trainers Manual on School Health

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) & Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MOEAC) (2015) C1

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Quantitative evaluation of essential medicines lists: the South African case study

Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay & Fatima Suleman BMC Health Services Research (2016) CC

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When the Drugs Don’t Work – Antibiotic Resistance as a Global Development Problem

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and ReAct (2019) C2

This paper focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty, economic growth, inequality, health, food production and the environment. It presents concrete examples of the underlying and complex aspects of antibiotic resistance and its impacts across different Sustainable Development ... more

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Encopresis - spanish

A. von Gontard IACAPAP (2017) C2

Transtornos del desarrollo Capítulo C.5 Edición en español Editor: Nieves Hermosín Carpio Traducción: María Carballo Novoa, María Esteban Arenós

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Management of patients with stroke: Rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (2010) C2

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Blueprint for the provision of comprehensive care for trans persons and their communities in the Caribbean and other anglophone countries

John Snow, Inc.; PAHO; World Health Organization; et al. (2019) C2

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Primary Trauma Care Manual - A Manual for Trauma Management in District and Remote Locations recommended

Hospital Management Strengthening Program (HMSP). Checklist To Identify the Gaps in Minimum Service Standards (MSS) of District Hospitals recommended

Primary Trauma Care Manual - A Manual for Trauma Management in District and Remote Locations
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Hospital Management Strengthening Program (HMSP). Checklist To Identify the Gaps in Minimum Service Standards (MSS) of District Hospitals
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