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Maldives has made significant strides in the area of infectious disease prevention and control. This is exemplified by elimination of malaria from Maldives in 2015 ... more
The design of anaesthesia equipment for use in hospitals in the developing world must take intoaccount the local conditions, particularly whether r ... more
This volume introduces Mongolian traditional medicine and details the nature and uses of medicinal plants found in ... more
Pakistan Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) was formed in the wake of international and national efforts for AMR curtailment. A group of experts from microbiology, ... more
Health Systems for Outcomes Publication | This report summarizes the findings of a qualitative study on health workers’ performance and career in Rwanda to identify bottlenecks, strengths ... more
Antimicrobials have been a critical public health tool since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, saving the lives of millions of people around the ... more
Paying for performance (P4P) provides financial incentives for providers to increase the use and quality of care. P4P can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort ... more
WHO-AIMS REPORT ON MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM IN NEPAL A report of the assessment of the mental health system in Nepal using the World Health Organizati ... more
This standard Operating procedure (SOP) for JDWNRH is intended to describe and address various important areas like admission procedure, on call process of the doctors, interdepartmental consult ... more
HRH SA 2030 | Draft HR Strategy for the Health Sector: 2012/13 – 2016/17 Consultation Document
The purpose of the survey is to identify the level of preparedness required by a health-care facility to be able to continue operating during, or f ... more
Maintaining proper storage conditions for health commodities is vital to ensuring their quality. Product expiration dates are based on ideal storage conditions and protecting product quality until their expiration date is important for serving custo ... more
Policy Research Working Paper 6100 | Impact Evaluation Series No. 60 | This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality care in R ... more
A System of Health Accounts 2011: Revised Edition provides an updated and systematic description of the financial flows related to the consumption ... more
Three Years After Enactment of the Drug Quality and Security Act
Reporting system for the general public - This document aims to provide practical guidelines on how to set up national systems for consumers to report adverse reactions to medicines. The purpose is ... more
This new edition and fully updated publication replaces the 2012 UCG and is being circulated free of charge to all public ... more
This guide presents new knowledge and guidelines on the provision of care to persons living with HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the last guidelines o ... more
The overall goal of the programme, to reduce the malaria morbidity and mortality by 75% (using 2 ... more

HIV Continuum of Care Monitoring Framework

Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas) Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas) (2014) C_WHO
2014 Addendum to meeting report: Regional consultation on HIV epidemiologic information in Latin America and the Caribbean
For the Assesor's Guide Vol 1 and 2 see: nrhm.gov.in/images/pdf/programmes/maternal-health/guidelines/Operational_Guidelines_for_Quality_Assurance_in_Public_Health_Facilities_ ... more
The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalised anxiety and sleep disorders; o ... more
This document introduces four strategic objectives and twelve operational principles for good pharmaceutical procurement. These objectives and principles have been developed ... more
This document outlines PAHO’s regional priorities for the year 2023 to sustain and scale up health emergency and humanitarian assistance in ... more
The current trend in AMR in Uganda and globally is rising and calls for immediate action. The 71 ... more
Examination of the business behavior of Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer and Baxter in India
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne has investigated the causes and consequences of antibiotic resistance in India, South Africa, Tanzania and Germany. Together w ... more
For each medicine the Formulary provides information on use, dosage, adverse effects, contraindications and warnings, supplemented by guidance on selecting ... more
July 2018 This fourth edition of the Unitaid/WHO market and technology landscape: HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing report summarizes the ... more
Background: One of the objectives of the Global Action Plan by the World Health Organization (WHO) to contain antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is to ... more

Using indicators to measure country pharmaceutical situations

WHO World Health Organization (WHO) (2006) C_WHO
Fact Book on WHO Level I and Level II monitoring indicators - To monitor the progress of efforts to improve the global medicines situation, WHO has ... more
The goal of the draft global action plan is to ensure, for as long as possible, continuity of successful treatment and prevention of infectious dis ... more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIVinfected children before the age of two since 2010, but this implies an early identification o ... more
Specific Objectives • To increase the knowledge and awareness of personnel on chemical management. • To educate the personnel on ... more
The threat posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to public health as well as global health security has been reiterated in umerous World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions. AMR is also prioritized under t ... more
The toolkit's purpose is to: improve the primary health care response for older persons. sensitize and educate primary health care worke ... more
The Health Sector Policy gives general orientations for the sector which are further developed in the various sub-sector policies guiding key healt ... more
The purpose of this manual is to define a limited number of indicators that will objectively describe the management and use of antimicrobials in h ... more
Act 851 | AN ACT to revise and consolidate the law relating to public health to prevent disease, promote, safeguard, maintain and protect ... more
For the Fiscal Year 2015-2016, the Health Sector continued to implement actions meant to improve the availability, ... more
The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While ... more
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; ... more
This report documents the secondary humanitarian problems and impacts of large-scale Ebola outbreak on the different humanitarian sectors, to provi ... more
Public Health is the science field dedicated to promoting health and well-being, and preventing disease within ... more
For the Fiscal Year 2014-2015, the Health Sector continued to implement interventions and strategies meant to improve ... more
This Guideline, the first for the country, draws from national health sector reforms and integration agenda as outlined in ... more
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; ... more
The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series consists of country-based reviews that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and ... more
The brief concludes that sustaining the continuity of EHS requires policies that ensure a whole-society and systems strengthening approach. This in ... more
The health sector In Ukraine is beginning to change in recent years. The sector, based on a system of health care (Semashko) originating from the S ... more
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has the highest TB incidence rate in the South East Asian Region - 498 per 100,000, which is ... more

South African Health Review 2019

Sanders, S. Health System Trust HST (2020) C1
22nd edition The purpose of the SAHR has always been to analyse and assess progress and challen ... more
This is the first national Policy to combat AMR in Cambodia. It was developed based on conclusions and recommendations of a country situaytion analysis.
The immediate objective of the country visit to Cameroon was to ensure that the country is as operationally ready as possible to effectively ... more
July 2021. This publication brings together important clinical and programmatic updates produced by WHO since 2016 and provides comprehensive, evidence-informed recommendations ... more
This report contains the results of an in-depth Training Needs Assessment (TNA) of Health Workers in the 4 project counties of the republic of Keny ... more
Patient safety standards are critical for the establishment and assessment of patient safety programmes within hospitals. This third edition of the ... more
A key purpose of the Recovery Toolkit is to support countries in the reactivation of health services which may have suffered as a result of the eme ... more
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; ... more
This 3rd edition of Guidelines for medicine donations has been developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with major international agencies active in humanitarian relief and dev ... more
The Third Rwandan Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP III) provides strategic guidance to the health sector for six years, between July 2012 and Jun ... more
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, 20(Suppl 4):21644
National AIDS Programme in Myanmar has made significant progress in scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) services and reco ... more
Journal of the International AIDS Society Vol. 21 (2018) e25133
Many prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programmes across Africa initiate HIV-infected (HIV positive) pregnant women on lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) on ... more
The document "Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" provides comprehensive guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of type 2 diab ... more
The goal of this Global Action Plan is to articulate synergistic actions that will be required to prevent HIVDR from undermining efforts to achieve global targets on health and HIV, ... more
Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Research Network | This document contains detail procedures on sample collection, transport, isolation, identification of fungi for the diagnosis of invasiv ... more
The World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) was used to collect information on the mental health system in Ghana for ... more
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis ... more
From 2000 to 2010, Rwanda implemented comprehensive health sector reforms to strengthen the public health system, with the aim of reducing maternal and ... more
Antimicrobials are precious agents for combating infectious diseases and had saved millions of lives throughout the world. However, the current tr ... more
This Clinic Supervisor’s Manual is helpful for focusing managers on the key elements of integrated primary health care as they simultaneously integrate new interventions for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and ... more
This Guide helps all the health care providers in the non- public sector to explore alternative means of access to contraceptives and skills to det ... more
Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an inte ... more
An Indicator-based Approach - This manual presents an indicator-based approach for rapidly assessing pharmaceutical management systems and programs. The manual contains a set of 46 indicators of per ... more
Many low-resource settings have a shortage of physicians and health workers. (1) In order to provide patient-centred continuous care more effectively, primary care systems can include team-based care strategies in their clinic workflows ... more
This update of the Guidelines for poison control, entitled Guidelines for establishing a poison centre, reflects the development of the role of poi ... more
This annual report highlights the work of the WHO from January to June 2021 ( December 2021). The activities featured herein are by no means exhaus ... more
Some 32% of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the conflict in the east. Among ... more
There is no secret to our procedure: the daily scanning of the literature helps us to stay afloat in the never-ending waves of new publications abo ... more
Wound care is a regular component of the package of care we offer in the majority of our health care facilities and represents a hig ... more

Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems

Sian Hawkins International Assistance Mission (2014) C2
This 88 page book is designed to help primary care workers understand mental health problems and how they can be treated. Mental health problems from childhood to old age are examined. The book focu ... more
This FY 2019 Malaria Operational Plan presents a detailed implementation plan for Burkina Faso, based on the strategies of PMI and the National Mal ... more
One health Response to AMR Containment. In a significant move for the public health sector, Kerala has become the first state in India to launch an action plan to combat ... more
This 2016-2020 public-private mix strategic plan (PPM SP) is a 4-year framework designed to guide the National TB Control Programme (NTP) and its partners to implement PPM in Bangladesh. It provides ... more
Antibiotics have been useful in fighting infectious diseases in our country for decades, but because of the overuse and misuse of these agents, an increasing number of organisms are now resistant to ... more
Version 1.1. The WHO protocol has been adapted to resource-limited settings and builds on existing methodologies from the European Centre for Disea ... more
In India, in response to the above and guided by our counterparts in the government of India, the ... more
UNHCR’s Public Health Strategy 2021-2025 is based on the lessons learnt, and builds on the achievements, of ... more
WHO commissioned a survey, carried out in September/October 2015, among some 10 000 members of the public in 12 countries (2 per WHO Region: Barbados, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the ... more

Palliative care for older people: better practices

Hall, S.; H. Petkova, A.D. Tsouros, et al. World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe, et al. (2011) C_WHO
This publication aims to provide examples of better palliative care practices for older people to help those involved in planning and supporting care-oriented services most appropriately and ... more
Three classess of tests are now recommended in the latest consolidated guideles on tests for tuberculosis infection. It includes for the first-time a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen- ... more
Cancer centres are a major resource in ensuring a comprehensive approach to cancer treatment and its planning. As part of a new roadmap developed by WHO and IAEA to help countries design national ca ... more
This guide provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to organize, implement, and monitor community-based care for DR TB. It is equally useful for program planning or supervision. The target a ... more
Zambia has about 1.2 physicians, nurses, and midwives per 1000 population while the minimum acceptable density threshold is 2.3 per 1000 population. The ... more
In 2014, GHS/NACP, with support from UNICEF and other partners, conducted a situation analysis on paediatric HIV care and treatment in Ghana. The p ... more
Internationally, there is a growing concern over antimicro-bial resistance (AMR) which is currently estimated to ac-count for more than 700,000 deaths per year worldwide. If no appropriate measures are taken to halt its pro-gress, AMR will cost approximately 10 million lives andabout US$100 trillion ... more
Every year, nearly 250 million people move across borders temporarily or permanently for a job opportunity, studying, to flee a crisis back home, or for other reasons. Another 750 million move for similar reasons within the borders of their countrie ... more
ABSTRACT More than 500 million people worldwide live with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Health systems today face fundamental challenges in delivering optimal care due to ageing populations, healthcare workforce constraints, financing, availability and ... more