Filter
3905
Filtered Results: 3905
Text search:
support
tb
Featured
Recommendations
330
New Publications
1174
Language
Document type
No document type
2583
Studies & Reports
513
Guidelines
398
Manuals
144
Strategic & Response Plan
121
Fact sheets
53
Training Material
40
Situation Updates
26
Infographics
13
Resource Platforms
8
Brochures
3
Online Courses
2
Dashboards/Maps
1
Countries / Regions
India
209
Kenya
163
South Africa
140
Global
101
Ethiopia
98
Uganda
98
Nepal
89
Tanzania
89
Western and Central Europe
89
Malawi
84
Zambia
83
Sierra Leone
79
Nigeria
77
Africa
66
Liberia
65
Myanmar / Burma
64
Ghana
62
Rwanda
59
Namibia
56
Bangladesh
54
Eastern Europe
53
Ukraine
50
Lesotho
44
Senegal
40
Cambodia
40
Congo, Democratic Republic of
34
Zimbabwe
34
Asia
33
Indonesia
30
Philippines
29
South–East Asia Region
28
Botswana
26
Latin America and the Carribbean
25
Haiti
24
Mozambique
24
Burkina Faso
21
South Sudan
19
East and Southern Africa
18
Russia
18
Benin
17
Eswatini/ Swaziland
17
Syria
15
West and Central Africa
15
Pakistan
13
Cameroon
12
Middle East and North Africa
12
Georgia
12
Guinea
11
Germany
10
Brazil
9
Colombia
8
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
8
Tajikistan
8
Vietnam
8
Sudan
7
Albania
7
Thailand
6
Central African Republic
6
Yemen
6
Western Pacific Region
6
Southern Africa
6
Laos
6
Afghanistan
5
Lebanon
5
Peru
5
North Macedonia
5
Madagascar
5
Sri Lanka
5
Venezuela
5
Armenia
5
Moldova
5
Somalia
4
Papua New Guinea
4
Burundi
4
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Mali
3
Morocco
3
Niger
3
Togo
3
Iraq
3
Jordan
3
Argentina
3
Hungary
3
Angola
3
Paraguay
3
Poland
3
Romania
3
Iran
3
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
2
USA
2
Saudi Arabia
2
Turkey
2
China
2
El Salvador
2
Bolivia
2
Chile
2
Bhutan
2
Estonia
2
North America
2
Turkmenistan
2
Jamaica
2
Belarus
2
Egypt
1
Chad
1
Gambia
1
Ireland
1
Singapore
1
Serbia
1
Ecuador
1
Greece
1
Libya
1
Guatemala
1
Mexico
1
Other region
1
Solomon Islands
1
Palestine
1
North Korea
1
Djibouti
1
Qatar
1
Bulgaria
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Gabon
1
Uruguay
1
Belgium
1
Maldives
1
Tunisia
1
Norway
1
Portugal
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1825
Clinical Guidelines
276
Public Health
164
Women & Child Health
129
Key Resources
85
Capacity Building
68
Pharmacy & Technologies
33
Annual Report MEDBOX
3
Toolboxes
TB
569
HIV
515
COVID-19
177
AMR
133
Mental Health
116
Caregiver
81
NTDs
72
Disability
69
Pharmacy
58
Ebola
57
Conflict
49
Global Health Education
49
NCDs
49
Refugee
42
Health Financing Toolbox
41
Rapid Response
36
Planetary Health
35
Natural Hazards
26
Polio
24
Cholera
10
Specific Hazards
10
Social Ethics
7
Zika
3
South Sudan
1
Health Financing
1
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are of increasing concern for society and national governments, as well as globally due to their high mortality rate. The main risk factors of NCDs can be classified into the categories of self-management, genetic factors, environmental factors, factors of medical co...
Hepatitis B (HBV) infection is a major public health problem and cause of chronic liver disease.
The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed recommendations on key priority topics. These include expanded and simplified treatment criteria for adults but now also for adolescents; expa...
Developed as part of the UN Women–WHO Global Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data, this briefing note focuses on the measurement of violence against women with disability and is one in a series of methodological briefing notes for strengthening the measurement and data collection of viol...
Terminology used to describe the transmission of pathogens through the air varies across scientific disciplines, organizations and the general public. While this has been the case for decades, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’ a...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – along with mental health, cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and geneti...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – along with mental health, cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and geneti...
The document is a policy brief by the NCD Alliance for the 2023 United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It highlights the importance of integrating non-communicable diseases (NCDs) into UHC efforts, with the goal of ensuring equitable health access worldwide.
The "WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) Disease Interventions for Primary Health Care" provides a set of cost-effective, evidence-based interventions to address noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancers. Designed ...
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including mental disorders, currently pose one of the biggest threats to health and development globally, particularly in low and middle income countries2. It is predicted that unless proven interventions are rapidly implemented in countries, in the short to medium ...
Little is known about asthma control in the rising number of African children who suffer from this condition. The Achieving Control of Asthma in Children in Africa (ACACIA) study is an observational study collecting evidence about paediatric asthma in urban areas of Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, South Afr...
The article is a scoping review that explores the challenges in diagnosing asthma in children in three sub-Saharan African countries: Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. It identifies key barriers, such as a lack of community awareness, inadequate healthcare access, limited diagnostic tools like spir...
The document discusses the complexities of managing patients with COPD and multiple comorbidities, highlighting the importance of personalized care and the appropriate use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). It outlines common comorbidities, such as asthma, osteoporosis, and diabetes, and offers guida...
Risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren who participated in a casecontrol study in urban Uganda
Data on asthma aetiology in Africa are scarce. We investigated the risk factors for asthma among schoolchildren (5–17 years) in urban Uganda. We conducted a case-control study, among 555 cases and 1115 controls. Asthma was diagnosed by study clinicians. The main risk factors for asthma were tertia...
This UNAIDS 2024 report brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of millions of lives and whether the world’s deadliest pandemic is overcome.
The Global Asthma Report (GAR) 2022, prepared by the Global Asthma Network (GAN), is the fourth such report (others 2011, 2014, 2018). GAN builds upon the work of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) and The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (T...
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease (CRD) worldwide and is estimated to affect 262 million causing significant mortality and morbidity, and has emerged as an important public health problem in many Latin American (LA) countries over the last 30 or so years. LA is a highly diverse r...
Asthma is the most common noncommunicable disease in children, and among the most common in adults. According to the most recent estimates from the Global Asthma Network Phase I study, around one in 10 children and adults have symptoms of asthma and one in 20 school-aged children have severe asthma ...
National action plans on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) often overlook the critical intersection of gender, despite evidence that exposure and susceptibility to infection, health-seeking behaviours, as well as antimicrobial prescribing and use patterns are all influenced by gender.
Childhood Respiratory Diseases & the Environment learning objectives
•To understand how the respiratory tract is affected by the environment
•To describe respiratory diseases linked to the environment
•To list one population-level intervention and one personal-level intervention for d...
The guidance document provides a set of indicators for assessing the status of development, implementation and monitoring of key policy interventions for prevention and control of NCDs and injuries. It promotes city-level evidence based decision-making processes to identify gaps and take appropriate...
