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Trichiasis surgery for trachoma Second Edition

Merbs, S.; Resnikoff, S.; Kello, A. World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

This manual is designed to provide specific information for trachomatous trichiasis (TT) trainers who are training others to undertake surgery for entropion trachomatous trichiasis (TT). Other approaches are not addressed. The manual is divided into two parts. The first part covers specifics designe... more

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Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Chikungunya Fever - 2009

World Health Organization - Regional Office for South-East Asia (2009) CC

This guideline for the prevention and control of chikungunya fever (CF) is intended for use by all peripheral health workers in the Region and is based on the strategy outlined above. This document will focus mainly on preventing, predicting and detecting outbreaks, and after detection, investig... more

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Comprehensive Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever -Revised and expanded edition

World Health Organization WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (2011) CC

Revised and expanded version of the Guidelines

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Report of the fourth WHO stakeholders meeting on gambiense and rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis elimination: virtual meeting, 1–3 June 2021

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Since 2000, concerted efforts by national programmes, supported by public–private partnerships, nongovernmental organizations, donors and academia under the auspices and coordination of the World Health Organization (WHO), have produced important achievements in the control of human African trypan... more

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Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Chagas Disease: An Increasing Challenge in Non-Endemic Areas

Suárez, C., Nolder, D., García-Mingo, A. et al. Research and reports in tropical medicine (2022) CC

Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine 2022:13 25–40. Chagas disease (CD) is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and it is endemic in Central, South America, Mexico and the South of the United States. It is an important cause of early mortality and morbidity, and it is associated with po... more

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Surveillance, prevention and control of leishmaniases in the European Union and its neighbouring countries

European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) (2022) C_CDC

This technical report presents the epidemiology of human and animal leishmaniases in the EU and its neighbouring countries and concludes that the disease remains widespread and underreported in many countries of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East and that there is a need to improv... more

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Eradication of yaws: a guide for programme managers, a disfiguring non-venereal disease

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

Yaws is a disfiguring non-venereal disease caused by infection with the spirochaete. Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue which is closely related to the causative agent of syphilis and those of the other endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta. The disease is endemic in certain areas of the World... more

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Learning Modules. COVID-19 Vaccines in Pregnancy and Safe Breastfeeding

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023) C_WHO

This is an e-learning module with the objective of providing education for health professionals and pregnant women using published results and studies based on COVID-19 surveillance data, which have indicated an increased risk among pregnant women of presenting with severe forms of COVID-19 and, the... more

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Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎: a living guideline, 13 January 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO continuously reviews available data on SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. For this version, the global epidemiological situation of the COVID-19 pandemic as of 21 January 2022 – at a time when the Omicron VOC had been identified in 171 countries across all six WHO Regions and was rapidly re... more

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Frequently Asked Questions on Visceral Leishmaniasis (KALA-AZAR)

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2013) C_WHO

Frequently Asked Questions on Visceral Leishmaniasis

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Treatment Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Common Syndromes

Indian Council of Medical Research - Department of Health Research (2017) C1

The publication of the of the Antimicrobial Treatment Guidelines represents the culmination of the efforts of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program of ICMR to publish treatment guidelines for common syndromes in India. These guidelines are targeted for the health care settings. It aims to rationali... more

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Report of a global meeting on yaws eradication surveillance, monitoring and evaluation: Geneva, 29–30 January 2018

World Health Organization WHO; Institutional research information sharing iris (2018) C_WHO

Report of a global meeting on yaws eradication surveillance, monitoring and evaluation: Geneva, 29–30 January 2018. World Health Organization.

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Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

During the 17 years since Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis was first published, there has been heightened awareness of the physical, economic and emotional burden of the genitourinary manifestations of filariasis. With the impetus to provide better guidanc... more

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A framework for the quantification and economic valuation of health outcomes originating from health and non-health climate change mitigation and adaptation action

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This report presents a framework to link science, policy and practice for a comprehensive assessment of climate mitigation and adaptation investments and their impact on human health.The framework proposes to use weather and climate data to forecast health impacts over time, as well as biophysical a... more

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National Guidelines - Diagnosis, Case Management Prevention and Control of Leptospirosis

National Centre for Disease Control - Delhi (2015) C2

Diagnosis, Case Management Prevention and Control of Leptospirosis