Where are the outbreaks? What is monkeypox? Recongnizing monkeypox and more. An update on the monkeypox outbreak including protection, diagnosis, treatment.
El presente decálogo expone de manera concisa los aspectos esenciales de la enfermedad y recoge 10 puntos básicos, esquemáticos y orientados a la práctica para la atención pediátrica de la enfermedad de Chagas.
Glob Heart . 2020 Oct 13;15(1):69. doi: 10.5334/gh.891.
During the COVID-19 health crisis, community pharmacists had an enhanced role in supporting health-care systems that were overburdened by managing seriously ill patients. This study was undertaken to determine the patterns of community supply of antiviral and antibacterial agents from community phar...macies during the COVID-19 pandemic in selected countries in eastern Europe and central Asia. Nine countries – Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – participated in this cross-sectional study.
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19 August 2022. A monkeypox case investigation form (CIF) has been designed as a tool for Member States and researchers to conduct in-depth epidemiological investigation of suspected, probable and confirmed cases of monkeypox. This form allows to collect data prospectively or retrospectively for bot...h cases and their contacts. The full form is meant to serve as a tool for in-country use and the data are not required to be reported to WHO.
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Este documento ofrece una orientación provisional a los países sobre las consideraciones y estrategias de análisis para los casos sospechosos de hepatitis aguda grave de etiología desconocida en niños. Está dirigido principalmente a las partes interesadas en el ámbito clínico, programático,... de laboratorio y de diagnóstico de los Estados miembros y a las autoridades nacionales de salud pública que participan en la identificación e investigación de casos de hepatitis aguda grave en niños.
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Diabetes is a major public health problem in the Americas and worldwide, demanding special attention and integrated response. It is estimated that more than 62 million adults are living with diabetes in the Americas. The projections show that diabetes prevalence will continue to increase to at least... 2025. Its steady rise has been mainly due to the high prevalence of risk factors, especially overweight/obesity and physical inactivity. Diabetes also is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability worldwide and across our Region.
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The new treatment recommendations that extend the 2018 treat all recommendation for adults with chronic HCV infection to include adolescents and children down to 3 years, and to align the existing recommended pangenotypic direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens (SOF/DCV, SOF/VEL and G/P) for adults, ...to those for adolescents and children. This alignment is expected to simplify procurement, promote access to treatment among children in low- and middle-income countries and contribute to global efforts to eliminate the disease
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Según el INS (3) la enfermedad de Chagas continúa siendo un problema de salud pública en Colombia y es uno de los países de América Latina que más capta pacientes en fase aguda al año, sin embargo, la tasa de letalidad acumulada a periodo epidemiológico -PE- diez de 2018, es la más baja de ...los últimos siete años.
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WHO invites Member States, health facilities and other entities to participate in the global effort to collect anonymized clinical data relating to suspected or confirmed cases of monkeypox and contribute data to the WHO Global Clinical Platform.
WHO has developed a clinical characterization case ...report forms (CRF) to standardize data collection of clinical features of monkeypox among outpatient and hospitalized cases.
For onboarding to the WHO Global Clinical Platform for monkeypox, please contact: monkeypox_clinicaldataplatform@who.int
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Informationen zu gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen sommerlicher Hitze und Hitzewellen und Tipps zum vorbeugenden Gesundheitsschutz
This annual report highlights the work of the WHO from January to June 2021 ( December 2021). The activities featured herein are by no means exhausted but implemented with technical and financial support through WHO in Nigeria; facilitated by its presence at all levels of governance (national, state..., local government, and wards).
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This series of supportive tools are based on the WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline. They are intended to provide supportive information for healthcare workers who are prescribing, administering and monitoring patients receiving nirmatrelvir-ritonavir for non-severe COVID-19.
This is the first edition of Empiric Antibiotic Guidelines, as a guidance to all medical practitioners at North Okklapa General & Teaching Hospital.
Antibiotics are critical in the management of infection and can have a significant impact in reducing morbidity and mortality. Emerging antimicrobia...l resistance has been identified as global challenge by the World Health Organization. Careful use of antibiotics targeted to likely pathogens is an important strategy in combating development of antimicrobial resistance.
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Desde el 2010, los Estados miembros de la Organización Panamericana
de la Salud (OPS) han asumido el compromiso de impulsar la eliminación de la transmisión materno infantil (ETMI) de la infección por el VIH y la sífilis. Estos compromisos se renovaron y ampliaron en el año 2016 mediante la... aprobación del “Plan de acción para la prevención y el control de la infección por el VIH y las infecciones de transmisión sexual 2016-2021”. Este Plan amplía la iniciativa de ETMI (la renombra "ETMI-Plus") para incluir la eliminación de otras enfermedades transmisibles prevenibles en la Región, como la hepatitis B y la enfermedad de Chagas.
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la Clasificación tabular de problemas de salud es la herramienta primordial para la codificación, pero el Indice alfabético es un complemento que facilita la búsqueda. De todas maneras siempre será necesario consultar la Clasificación tabular y sus
notas.