This report - the largest of its kind to date - draws on the experiences of over 8,500 women and 300 health professionals across eight countries. I...t exposes the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, and highlights impacts on families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children.
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Building on our decades of commitment to human rights in medicine and healthcare, we have published a new report on emerging threats in health-related human rights both globally and in the UK.
'H...ealth and human rights in the new world (dis)order' outlines a shifting rights landscape in which new technologies, environmental change and geopolitical reconfigurations are putting renewed and at times intense stress on human rights, both in medicine and healthcare more broadly.
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A Toolkit for Implementation. Module 1: An Overview of Implementation at National, Province and District Levels
These guidelines will assist the ICMR institutions/ centers/ Hqrs. by providing information on the policies, principles and approaches which should be followed in carrying out procurement of goods a...nd services at their respective institute/ center/ Hqrs.
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The Lancet Global Health January 24, 2022
This policy discussion paper is designed to give an overview of the legal and policy implications of the dealat ... medbox">the present time.This paper is not designed to be an exhaustive statement or exploration of all issues –rather, its purpose is to highlight the key policy and legal challenges which the EU-Turkey Deal has created at this early stage from the perspective of forced migrants.
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This guidance has been developed in line with the WHO corporate risk management framework, the WHO business continuity and contingency plans, as well as t...he Inter-Agency Emergency Response Preparedness Framework. It is based on a common organiza-tional approach and procedures for managing including emergency response across all hazards and at each level of the Organization. It relates WHO’s responsibilities (1) under the International Health Regulations (2005) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, and other international treaties; (2) as the United Nations’ lead agency for health and the health cluster; and (3) as a member of the United Nations or Humanitarian Country Teams
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This guidance is intended for people designing /or implementing feedback mechanisms in a humanitarian programme. It also available in Arabic, Spanish and French
A toolkit for Implementation. Module 3: Participatory community assessment in maternal and newborn health
Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosisand patient care
2017 Update
Time for recognition of lay counsellors
Accessed November 2017
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access ...t medbox">to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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Guidelines and tools for Health Professionals
This guidance provides an overview of interventions to improve early diagnosis of TB and treatment completion in these populations, as well as factors to consider when developing programmes ...ass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">for health communication, awareness and education, and programme monitoring and evaluation
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Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
WHO/HTM/TB/2007.381, 07.02
The primary audience for the guideline is policy makers and health programme managers of MNCH and immunization programmes in ministries of health w...here decisions are made and policies created on the use and implementation of homebased records.
The guideline is also aimed at health providers who use home-based records as a tool for recording information and providing health education or communicating key information. Development and international agencies and non-governmental organizations that support the implementation of home-based records will also find this guideline of use.
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Guidelines for planning and provision of pastoral and social support services
The document covers: introduction on contact tracing in the Ebola response; general considerations for contact tracing; case definition; planning a...nd preparation; personnel; implementation, and tools for contact tracing.
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The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by ...>the mhGAP programme.
This manual is the first volume of WHO’s new series on low-intensity psychological interventions.
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This guidance document sets out a methodology to identify and track financing to the WASH sector in a coherent and consistent manner across several... countries. It is designed to help countries track financing to the WASH sector on a regular and comparable basis and analyse this information to support evidence-based policy-making based on useful indicators.
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