These guidelines are designed for settings with limited resources to provide inexpensive and effective control strategies for prevention of TB transmission in health care workers (HCW).
The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin... and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces oral cotrimoxazole as first line treatment, preferably in 250mg dispersible tablet form, twice daily for five days which can be reduced to three days in low HIV settings.
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Advising principles. The purpose of this document is to support competent authorities in charge of IHR implementation to improve national capacities for the prevention, detection and control ...lass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">of events, by strengthening communications and coordination between points of entry and the national health surveillance system
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Lancet Glob Health 2015; 3: e396–409. Open Access
Health Economics Review, 2016 6:7 -Published: 11 February 2016
Glob Health Sci Pract; March 24, 2017, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 44-56
AUDIT REPORT NO. 9-000-11-001-P | February 24, 2011
DHS Working Papers No. 93
DHS Working Papers No. 127
DHS Working Papers No. 123
An Update will be published in late 2018
2nd edition
WASH FIT is a risk-based, continuous improvement framework with a set of tools for undertaking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) improvements as part of wider quality improvements in... health care facilities. It is aimed at small primary, and in some instances secondary, health care facilities in low and middle income countries.
An app, for front line data collection is also available in the Android Google Play store or as a web app
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