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Guide for ANM

India Hypertension Control Initiative (2022) CC

This guide can be used to train ANM staff in the field to succeed in their role in the hypertension program. It teaches how to screen patients correctly, register and follow-up with patients, retrieve defaulters, record patient visits, and to report data

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Mpox Testing Strategy - November 2024

Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024) CC

Mpox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the mpox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus closely related to the variola virus that causes smallpox. Mpox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. The first human case was recorde...d in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox and since then the infection has been reported in a number of African countries. Mpox can spread in humans through close contact, usually skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, with an infected person or animal, as well as with materials contaminated with the virus such as clothing, beddings and towels, and respiratory droplets in prolonged face to face contact. People remain infectious from the onset of symptoms until all the lesions have scabbed and healed. The virus may spread from infected animals through handling infected meat or through bites or scratches. Diagnosis is confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of material from a lesion for the virus’s DNA. Two separate clades of the mpox virus are currently circulating in Africa: Clade I, which includes subclades Ia and Ib, and Clade II, comprising subclades IIa and IIb. Clade Ia and Clade Ib have been associated with ongoing human-to-human transmission and are presently responsible for outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while Clade Ib is also contributing to outbreaks in Burundi and other countries. In 2022‒2023 mpox caused a global outbreak in over 110 countries, most of which had no previous history of the disease, primarily driven by human-to-human transmission of clade II through sexual contact. In just over a year, over 90,000 cases and 150 deaths were reported to the WHO. For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent. On 13 Aug 2024, Africa CDC declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.7 This declaration empowered the Africa CDC to lead and coordinate responses to the mpox outbreak across affected African countries. On August 14, 2024, the WHO declared the resurgence of mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) emphasizing the need for coordinated international response. As of August 2024, Mpox has expanded beyond its traditional endemic regions, with new cases reported in countries including Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Sweden has confirmed its first case of Clade 1 variant, which has been rapidly spreading in Africa, particularly in DRC. The emergence of this new variant raises concerns about its potential for higher lethality and transmission rates outside Africa. more

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Questions and Answers on Ebola

Centers of Disease Control CDC (2014)

Please read online the lastest updated versions http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/qa.html

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Guia de diagnostico y tratamiento de COVID-19 en unidades de terapia intensiva - version mayo de 2020

Sociedad Boliviana de Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva Sociedad Boliviana de Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva Ministerio de Salud Bolivia (2020) CC

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 in intensive care units

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Evidence of HIV Treatment and Viral Suppression in Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2018)

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MSF Essential Drugs - Practical Guidelines 2022
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Médecins sans Frontières MSF Médecins sans Frontières (2022) C2

Practical guide intended for physicians, pharmacists, nurses and medical auxiliaries. This guide is not a dictionary of pharmacological agents. It is a practical manual intended for health professionals, physicians, pharmacists, nurses and health auxiliaries invoved in curative care and drug managem... more

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India: A Report on National Data Analysis Plan - A Systematic Approach Towards Analysis of National HIV/AIDS Programme Data 2015

National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2015) C1

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India: Guidelines for Setting up Blood Storage Centres

National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; National Blood Transfusion Council (NBTC) (2007) C1

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Low-Threshold Psychosocial Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. A Project Guide
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Zellmann, H. Médecins Sans Frontières (2018) C1

This guide is strongly practice -oriented and intended as an open resource when replicating similar methods of psychosocial care in other projects. It describes the steps in the development of our pilot project "Low threshold psychosocial support for refugees and asylum seekers’ in... more

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The expanding epidemic of HIV-1 in the Russian Federation

C. Beyrer; A. L. Wirtz; G. O’Hara; et al. PLOS Medicine (2017) CC

PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002462 November 28, 2017

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The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2019) C_CDC

The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship provides a framework for antibiotic stewardship for outpatient clinicians and facilities that routinely provide antibiotic treatment. This report augments existing guidance for other clinical settings. In 2014 and 2015, respectively, CDC release... more

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Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19

Social Science in Humanitarian Action (2020) CC

This brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low- and middleincome countries. It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses the categories of individuals who may be identified for shielding, and outline... more

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Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2019) C_CDC

The Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, presents evidence- based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of patient- care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment. This docume... more

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Organizing trichiasis surgical outreach

International Coalition for Trachoma Control ICTC (2015) CC

A key component of elimination is to reduce the number of unmanaged trachomatous trichiasis cases to less than 1 per 1,000 population in affected areas. This will require not only a large increase in the number of surgeries performed, but also improvements in the quality of surgery and in the e... more

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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and the Impact of Smokefree Policies

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

The Public Health Burden of Secondhand Exposure to Commercial Tobacco Smoke Secondhand smoke, the combination of smoke from burning commercial tobacco* products and the smoke breathed out by a person who is smoking, is deadly.

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Patient Information - Diabetes and Your Eyes

German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ) (2010) C1

For versions in Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Turkish and German go to http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/diabetes/diabetes-und-augen

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India: Scheme for Pediatric Centres of Excellence in HIV Care

National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India (2011) C1

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Tuberculosis (TB) Facts

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for HIVAIDS; TB Prevention; et al. (2017) C_CDC

TB and HIV/AIDS Accessed November 2017

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The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

K.Dheda, T. Gumbo, G. Maartens, et al. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission (2017) C2

Lancet Respir Med 2017; 5: 291–360Vol, 5 April 2017

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Geographical distribution of areas with a high prevalence of HTLV-1 infection

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2015) C1

ECDC Technical Report
In line with ECDC’s recommendations provided in the ’Risk Assessment of HTLV-1/2 transmission by tissue/cell transplantation’ dated 14 March 2012, this Directive replaces the term ‘incidence’ with ‘prevalence’ in the description of endemic areas of HTLV-1/2 i... more

MSF Essential Drugs - Practical Guidelines 2022 recommended

Low-Threshold Psychosocial Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. A Project Guide recommended

MSF Essential Drugs - Practical Guidelines 2022
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Low-Threshold Psychosocial Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. A Project Guide
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