Filter
2110
Filtered Results: 2110
Text search:
recruitment
Featured
Recommendations
164
New Publications
657
Language
Document type
No document type
1255
Studies & Reports
361
Guidelines
207
Strategic & Response Plan
104
Manuals
98
Fact sheets
34
Situation Updates
24
Training Material
22
Resource Platforms
4
Brochures
1
Countries / Regions
India
72
Uganda
68
Kenya
65
Global
61
Congo, Democratic Republic of
54
Senegal
53
Liberia
51
South Africa
49
Myanmar / Burma
49
Sierra Leone
47
Benin
47
Nigeria
44
Syria
41
Nepal
39
Burkina Faso
38
Ethiopia
38
Zambia
36
Malawi
36
Bangladesh
35
South Sudan
30
Central African Republic
30
Rwanda
28
Africa
26
Guinea
24
Mozambique
24
Haiti
23
Namibia
22
Ukraine
22
Cameroon
21
Western and Central Europe
20
Ghana
18
Zimbabwe
18
Tanzania
18
Madagascar
18
Lesotho
18
Yemen
18
Latin America and the Carribbean
18
Brazil
17
Philippines
16
Botswana
16
East and Southern Africa
16
Cambodia
14
Mali
13
Indonesia
12
Colombia
12
West and Central Africa
12
Venezuela
11
Russia
9
Pakistan
8
Afghanistan
8
Germany
8
Middle East and North Africa
8
Somalia
7
Asia
7
Eastern Europe
7
Togo
6
Jordan
6
Lebanon
6
Sudan
6
South–East Asia Region
6
Laos
6
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
5
Niger
5
Chad
5
Angola
5
Vietnam
5
Iraq
4
Eswatini/ Swaziland
4
Burundi
4
Libya
4
Tajikistan
4
Moldova
4
Portugal
4
Thailand
3
China
3
Serbia
3
Paraguay
3
Poland
3
Southern Africa
3
United Kingdom
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3
Guinea-Bissau
2
Egypt
2
Peru
2
Hungary
2
Croatia
2
Sri Lanka
2
Chile
2
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2
Congo-Brazzaville
2
Iran
2
Kyrgyzstan
2
Kazakhstan
2
Turkmenistan
2
France
2
Turkey
1
Gambia
1
Malaysia
1
Mauritania
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Argentina
1
North Macedonia
1
Ecuador
1
Bolivia
1
Greece
1
Mexico
1
Western Pacific Region
1
Other region
1
Luxembourg
1
Palestine
1
Italy
1
Albania
1
Djibouti
1
Canada
1
Bulgaria
1
Estonia
1
Romania
1
Lithuania
1
Uzbekistan
1
Georgia
1
North America
1
Gabon
1
Japan
1
Belgium
1
Mauritius
1
Spain
1
Azerbaijan
1
Belarus
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1050
Public Health
113
Women & Child Health
100
Key Resources
80
Clinical Guidelines
70
Capacity Building
22
Pharmacy & Technologies
10
Toolboxes
COVID-19
200
Mental Health
158
HIV
120
Conflict
102
Caregiver
94
Disability
93
Refugee
67
TB
64
Ebola
63
Rapid Response
48
NTDs
28
Global Health Education
26
Natural Hazards
25
Planetary Health
23
NCDs
18
AMR
16
Polio
15
Pharmacy
9
Zika
8
Health Financing Toolbox
8
Social Ethics
7
Cholera
3
Typhoon
2
Specific Hazards
2
South Sudan
1
Health Financing
1
This thematic brief accompanies the Working for Health 2022–2030 Action Plan, serving as a rationale to the related actions of the Working for Health progression model (see Annex). The brief aims to inform Member States, non-state actors and other users of the Action Plan to guide action on inves...
This thematic brief accompanies the Working for Health 2022–2030 Action Plan, serving as a background and rationale to the related actions of the Working for Health progression model (see Annex). The brief aims to inform Member States, nonstate actors and other users of the Action Plan on the con...
Conflicts and disasters, including pandemics, affect women and men in all their diversity differently, and women and girls often suffer the most. Crisis-related hardships combine and compound pre-existing disadvantages, for example, they often cause women’s working conditions to worsen while incre...
Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) is a gynaecological disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic worm that is acquired by skin contact with freshwater contaminated by schistosome cerceriae. Communities in which the infection is most endemic have limited access to clean water and healt...
Leishmaniasis is a climate-sensitive disease. Changes in temperature, rainfall, and humidity can have strong impacts on
the sandfly vector, altering their distribution and influencing their survival and population sizes. Increased temperatures shorten vector development time, reduce Leishmania para...
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...
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) published a clinical case definition of post COVID-19
condition, by a Delphi consensus, on 6 October 2021. That process concluded that a separate definition
may be applicable for children. It is important to understand the frequency, characteristics ...
Mali national action plan on antimicrobial resistance: review of progress in the human health sector
This policy brief aims to provide a review of the current progress on implementing the Mali national action plan on AMR, identifies critical gaps, and highlights findings to accelerate further progress in the human health sector. The target audience includes all those concerned with implementing act...
Leptospirosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease of worldwide importance, though relatively neglected in many African countries including sub Saharan Africa that is among areas with high burden of this disease. The disease is often mistaken for other febrile illnesses such as dengue, malaria, rickettsi...
Sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) violate the rights and wellbeing of the people we serve and the people with whom we serve. Such behaviours are directly in opposition to WHO’s values and our abiding responsibility to do no harm. WHO uses the umbrella term “sexual mi...
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...
Taenia saginata is a zoonotic tapeworm that is of economic importance in countries where cattle are kept. The parasite is transmitted from human tapeworm carriers (taeniosis) to bovines (cysticercosis) by excretion of eggs or proglottids containing eggs into the environment via the stool. Bovines ca...
Medical care for people caught up in armed conflict and other insecure environments saves lives and alleviates suffering. It is one of the most immediate and high priority needs of an affected population and is often the first type of response activated and/or requested by authorities and affected c...
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has caused a deterioration in the level of access to health-care services and medicines in the country, particularly for people living in regions close to the front line and areas that are not partially or fully controlled by the Government of Ukraine, and for peop...
More than 700 000 people lose their life to suicide every year. A core foundation of suicide prevention is the timely registration and regular monitoring of suicide and self-harm. Surveillance data can be used to show important progress towards reaching global targets, such as reducing the suicide r...
The WHO Living guideline: Drugs to prevent COVID-19 contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the use of drugs to prevent COVID-19. The latest version of this living guideline is available in pdf format (via the ‘Download’ button) and via an online platform.
Guidelines ...
The NDMS&IP focuses on mainstreaming disability to promote equitable access to services in the six thematic areas of health, education, livelihoods, empowerment, and social inclusion and cross-cutting issues.
The first part of the NDMS&IP outlines incongruences between national and sectoral policie...
World Health Organization. (2021). Minimum technical standards and recommendations for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care for emergency medical teams. World Health Organization.
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA51.11 in 1998, which targets the
global elimination of trachoma as a public health problem by 2020 (1). The strategy recommended
to achieve that goal is encapsulated by the acronym “SAFE”, which represents: Surgery for
individuals wi...
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), in accordance with recommendations from various WHO committees, has developed three flagship initiatives to support Member States in the African region to prepare for, detect and respond to public health emergencies. They are the r...
