Filter
937
Filtered Results: 937
Text search:
Surgical
site
infection
Featured
Recommendations
147
New Publications
253
Language
Document type
No document type
512
Guidelines
197
Studies & Reports
83
Manuals
74
Training Material
22
Strategic & Response Plan
20
Fact sheets
13
Situation Updates
9
Resource Platforms
2
Infographics
2
Brochures
1
Online Courses
1
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
India
92
South Africa
53
Kenya
39
Nigeria
33
Ethiopia
31
Liberia
23
Sierra Leone
20
Uganda
20
Global
18
Tanzania
17
Rwanda
15
Bangladesh
15
Nepal
14
Western and Central Europe
13
Philippines
12
Zambia
12
Namibia
11
Ghana
10
Congo, Democratic Republic of
8
Germany
8
Eswatini/ Swaziland
8
Malawi
7
Myanmar / Burma
7
Africa
7
Guinea
5
USA
5
Syria
5
West and Central Africa
5
Latin America and the Carribbean
5
Eastern Europe
5
South Sudan
4
Botswana
4
Lesotho
4
East and Southern Africa
4
Burkina Faso
3
Zimbabwe
3
Cambodia
3
Argentina
3
South–East Asia Region
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Venezuela
3
Senegal
2
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
2
Pakistan
2
Iraq
2
Jordan
2
Brazil
2
Ukraine
2
Angola
2
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2
Vietnam
2
France
2
United Kingdom
2
Mali
1
Niger
1
Haiti
1
Somalia
1
Lebanon
1
Turkey
1
China
1
Indonesia
1
Singapore
1
Mozambique
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Sudan
1
Peru
1
Burundi
1
Colombia
1
Bolivia
1
Sri Lanka
1
Chile
1
Middle East and North Africa
1
Other region
1
Asia
1
Bhutan
1
Palestine
1
Southern Africa
1
Tajikistan
1
Russia
1
Qatar
1
Iran
1
Portugal
1
Spain
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
397
Clinical Guidelines
165
Women & Child Health
63
Key Resources
62
Public Health
35
Capacity Building
23
Pharmacy & Technologies
9
Toolboxes
AMR
91
COVID-19
73
Caregiver
63
Ebola
50
TB
50
HIV
41
NTDs
38
Rapid Response
33
Conflict
25
Pharmacy
21
Natural Hazards
11
Specific Hazards
11
Planetary Health
11
Mental Health
10
Refugee
8
Disability
7
Global Health Education
7
NCDs
5
Cholera
3
Polio
3
Theodor Bilharz, a German professor of anatomy and chief of surgery at the Kasr El Ani Hospital of Cairo from 1850, first identified an infective organism, Distomum hematobium in 1851, which was renamed Schistosoma haematobium in 1858. It arose from a cestode worm, Hymenoleptis nana, lying in the sm...
Chromoblastomycosis (CBM), represents one of the primary implantation mycoses caused by melanized fungi widely found in nature. It is characterized as a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) and mainly affects populations living in poverty with significant morbidity, including stigma and discrimination.
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’. Mr. Annan firmly believed that victims of snakebite envenoming should be recognised and afforded greater efforts at impro...
Snakebite is an acute life threatening time limiting medical emergency. It is a preventable public
health hazard often faced by rural population in tropical and subtropical countries with heavy
rainfall and humid climate.
Caring for burns patients from the incident scene to definitive treatment can be a complex, resource-consuming process with the potential to overwhelm health system capacity.This document provides practical guidance for building capacity and capability for burns care from clinical, human resources a...
Working with limited resources in armed conflict and other situations of violence. Vol.2
National Safe Surgery Strategic PLAN Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS) Strategic Plan 2016–2020
This compendium collates current tools and resources on quality improvement developed by the WHO Service Delivery and Safety Department and provides examples of how the tools and resources have been applied in country settings. The target audience for this document are ministries of health, facility...
Scientists have known for more than half a century that patients could develop resistance to the drugs used to treat them. Alexander Fleming, who is credited with creating the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928, cautioned of the impending crisis while accepting his Nobel prize in 1945: “There ...
Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO’s global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable globally....
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a multifaceted, international public health problem, which poses a direct threat to the safety of the population of South Africa. A national response is required to complement the development of a global plan, as articulated in the WHO’s draft resolution EB134/37 ...
The Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) calls for making AMR a core component of professional education and training. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) published Competency framework for health workers’ education and training on AMR to ensure that academic institutions ...
3rd edition!Large File 17 MB!
3rd edition!
The WHO/UNICEF JMP report, WASH in Health Care Facilities, is the first comprehensive global assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities. It also finds that 1 in 5 health care facilities has no sanitation service*, impacting 1.5 billion people. The report further rev...
Nature Reviews Microbiology Vol. 17 (2019)pp.51-62
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) technologies help to accelerate the
initiation of targeted antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections and could potentially
extend the lifespan ...
These Guidelines on prudent use of antimicrobials in human health are based on a technical report prepared by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) with input from EU Member States experts and stakeholders, which should be referred to for details of the methodology used in cr...
