Filter
7006
Filtered Results: 7006
Text search:
guidelines
and
policy
Featured
Recommendations
602
New Publications
1958
Language
Document type
No document type
4115
Studies & Reports
1070
Guidelines
931
Manuals
366
Strategic & Response Plan
262
Training Material
97
Fact sheets
92
Situation Updates
31
Resource Platforms
17
Brochures
9
Infographics
7
Online Courses
6
Dashboards/Maps
1
App
1
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
India
291
Kenya
240
Global
239
South Africa
167
Uganda
166
Nepal
162
Ethiopia
152
Nigeria
142
Western and Central Europe
137
Sierra Leone
126
Liberia
122
Malawi
120
Zambia
116
Myanmar / Burma
113
Tanzania
103
Ghana
100
Bangladesh
98
Rwanda
94
Latin America and the Carribbean
92
Africa
88
Namibia
74
Ukraine
67
Eastern Europe
65
Indonesia
57
Philippines
56
Zimbabwe
53
Lesotho
50
Russia
47
Syria
46
Cambodia
44
South–East Asia Region
44
Asia
42
Congo, Democratic Republic of
41
Botswana
39
Senegal
34
South Sudan
34
Haiti
32
Mozambique
32
Guinea
29
East and Southern Africa
28
Eswatini/ Swaziland
27
Brazil
27
Middle East and North Africa
27
West and Central Africa
25
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
24
Cameroon
20
Colombia
20
Burkina Faso
19
Pakistan
18
Germany
18
Yemen
16
Western Pacific Region
16
Afghanistan
15
Thailand
15
Venezuela
15
Benin
14
Jordan
13
Lebanon
13
Sudan
12
Laos
10
Vietnam
10
Somalia
9
Iraq
9
Sri Lanka
9
Paraguay
9
Georgia
9
USA
8
Peru
8
Albania
8
Moldova
8
Southern Africa
7
Tajikistan
7
Mali
6
Turkey
6
China
6
Central African Republic
6
Argentina
6
Angola
6
Madagascar
6
Chile
6
Bhutan
6
North America
6
United Kingdom
6
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
5
Hungary
5
Burundi
5
Greece
5
Libya
5
Iran
5
Kyrgyzstan
5
Guinea-Bissau
4
Saudi Arabia
4
Egypt
4
North Macedonia
4
Ecuador
4
El Salvador
4
Bolivia
4
Mexico
4
Palestine
4
Armenia
4
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Romania
4
Portugal
4
Niger
3
Papua New Guinea
3
Honduras
3
Fiji
3
Poland
3
Estonia
3
Kazakhstan
3
Japan
3
Spain
3
Morocco
2
Gambia
2
Canada
2
Qatar
2
Uzbekistan
2
Turkmenistan
2
Jamaica
2
Belgium
2
Mauritius
2
Belarus
2
Israel
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Malaysia
1
Mauritania
1
Singapore
1
Serbia
1
Croatia
1
Guatemala
1
Nicaragua
1
Other region
1
North Korea
1
Italy
1
Djibouti
1
Bulgaria
1
Lithuania
1
Slovakia
1
Gabon
1
Denmark
1
France
1
Maldives
1
Tunisia
1
Norway
1
Azerbaijan
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2745
Clinical Guidelines
511
Women & Child Health
423
Public Health
407
Key Resources
351
Capacity Building
117
Pharmacy & Technologies
74
Annual Report MEDBOX
2
Toolboxes
HIV
625
COVID-19
471
Mental Health
466
TB
454
Disability
302
AMR
249
Planetary Health
221
Caregiver
219
Rapid Response
181
Pharmacy
147
Conflict
144
Ebola
140
NCDs
132
NTDs
120
Refugee
113
Global Health Education
88
Natural Hazards
80
Polio
42
Health Financing Toolbox
36
Zika
33
Specific Hazards
29
Social Ethics
23
Cholera
19
Typhoon
2
Health Financing
1
The number of COVID-19 cases is on the rise again, with South Africa nearing half of all confirmed cases in the WHO African Region. Threats of new variants loom and low vaccination coverage raises questions on the future of the response to COVID-19....
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to large increases in healthcare waste, straining under resourced healthcare facilities and exacerbating environmental impacts from solid waste. This report quantifies the additional COVID-19 healthcare waste generated,...
Getting on track to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. This new Road Map charts a way forward for country-level actions to achieve an ambitious set of HIV prevention targets by 2025. Those targets emerged from the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV ... AIDS, which the United Nations General Assembly adopted in June 2021 and they are underpinned by the Global AIDS Strategy (2021–2026). The Strategy sets out the principles, approaches, priority action area and programmatic targets for the global HIV response
The escalation of the war in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, causing thousands of civilian
casualties; destroying civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, and triggering the fastest-
growing displacement crisis in Europe since World War II...
This draft Roadmap for the Global Health for Peace Initiative has been developed in response to decision WHA75(24) of the 75th World Health Assembly (2022), which requested that WHO develop, in full consultation with Member States and Observers, ... in full collaboration with other organizations of the United Nations system and relevant non-State actors in official relations with WHO, a Roadmap, if any, for the Global Health and Peace Initiative.
It incorporates feedback received from Member States through a first round of consultation carried out at the end of 2022. This (second) draft is being made available ahead of the 152nd session of the Executive Board, that will consider the draft Roadmap.
The Roadmap for the Global Health for Peace Initiative aims to provide a framework for the Initiative at global level, defining concepts, establishing principles, setting strategic goals and objectives as well as operational priorities. It also describes the “Health for Peace approach” to programming, which lies at the core of the Global Health for Peace Initiative (GHPI). The GHPI is a global initiative of WHO that aims to enhance the existing links between health (and health interventions) and peace
The Practical manual on laboratory strengthening, 2022 update provides practical guidance on implementation of WHO recommendations and best practices for TB laboratory strengthening. It is an updated version of the GLI Practical Guide to Laboratory ...
Pharmaceutical News
Evaluation of Saccharide Content of the WHO 2nd International Standard for Haemophilus Influenzae Polysaccharide Polyribosyl Ribitol Phosphate (PRP) by HPAECPAD Analysis Following Acid Hydrolysis
Consultation Documents
Lamivudine and... tenofovir disoproxil fumarate tablets (lamivudini et tenofoviri disoproxili fumarati compressi)
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate tablets (tenofoviri disoproxili fumarati compressi)
ATC/DDD Classification
Temporary
Final
In response to the recent publication “Is onchocerciasis elimination in Africa feasible by 2025: a perspective based on lessons learnt from the African control programmes” by Dadzie et al., it is important to clarify and highlight the positive <... unequivocal research and operational contributions from the American experience towards the worldwide elimination of human onchocerciasis (river blindness).
Traditional food markets play important economic, cultural, and social role and are sources of livelihood for millions of people in urban and rural...
The military offensive by the Russian Federation in Ukraine which began February 2022 has triggered one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement and humanitarian crisis, with geopolitical and e...
The Quadripartite organizations have developed the One Health Priority Research Agenda for AMR report, this is a joint initiative to assist in directing and catalysing scientific interest and financ...
This report compiles data for the first time on the far-reaching consequences of uncontrolled hypertension, including heart attacks, strokes and premature death, along with substantial economic losses for communities ... countries. It also contains information on the global, regional and country-level burden of hypertension and progress of control efforts.
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) began 30 years ago with the goal of providing timely, valid and relevant assessments of critical health outcomes. Over this period, the GBD has become progressively more granular. The latest iteration provide...
Malawi’s first National Community Health Strategy (NCHS, 2017-2022) defines a new community health system in which community health cadres, both formal and non-formal, deliver services of the Essential Health Package, with a focus on child ... maternal health. It envisages an integrated approach to service delivery and is embedded in Malawi’s Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSPII).
As our world changes, so too does the burden of disease. Globalisation, evolving trade and consumption patterns, and increased access to life-saving medical care are just some of the factors that ha...
In the mid-1980s, recognizing the limitations of traditional training and that the knowledge and skills acquired are not necessarily applied back in the workplace, MSH developed the Monitoring‐Tra...
The Regional strategy for measles control recommends that a second opportunity for measles immunization be provided to all children irrespective of their vaccination status or history of clinical measles. The preferred method of provision of a second opportunity is through Supplemental Immunization ...
The purpose of this manual is to define a limited number of indicators that will objectively describe the management and use of antimicrobials in hospitals and to provide tools ... step-by-step instructions for designing and carrying out an assessment of antibiotic use and management in hospitals. The indicators in this manual will complement the existing WHO (1993) indicators of outpatient antimicrobial use suggested in How to Investigate Drug Use in Health Facilities (including percentage of encounters in which an antibiotic was prescribed and percentage of medicine costs spent on antibiotics) and will address the need for antimicrobial indicators for inpatient conditions.
For the Fiscal Year 2015-2016, the Health Sector continued to implement actions meant to improve the availability, and access to quality healthcare. The following report highlights achievements registered by the health sector for the fiscal 2015-201...
The UNICEF-GAIN Partnership Project
The report notes that iodine deficiency is a leading cause of preventable brain damage worldwide. Insufficient iodine during pregnancy and infancy results in neurological ... psychological deficits, reducing a child’s IQ by 8 to 10 points. This translates into major losses in the cognitive capital of entire nations and thus their socio-economic development.
The report outlines urgent steps to reduce the risk of mental impairment to babies’ growing brains:
• Integrate salt iodization into national plans to support children’s nutrition and brain development in early childhood;
• Align salt iodization and salt reduction agendas; • Establish surveillance systems to identify unreached populations;
• Strengthen regulatory systems to enforce existing legislation on salt iodization;
• Recognize the growing importance of fortified foods as potential sources of iodized salt.
The report notes that iodine deficiency is a leading cause of preventable brain damage worldwide. Insufficient iodine during pregnancy and infancy results in neurological ... psychological deficits, reducing a child’s IQ by 8 to 10 points. This translates into major losses in the cognitive capital of entire nations and thus their socio-economic development.
The report outlines urgent steps to reduce the risk of mental impairment to babies’ growing brains:
• Integrate salt iodization into national plans to support children’s nutrition and brain development in early childhood;
• Align salt iodization and salt reduction agendas; • Establish surveillance systems to identify unreached populations;
• Strengthen regulatory systems to enforce existing legislation on salt iodization;
• Recognize the growing importance of fortified foods as potential sources of iodized salt.
