Literature Review on TB Control in Prisons 11/18/2008
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn...ostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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First published in 2020, this toolkit is intended for clinicians working in acute care, managing adult and paediatric patients with acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock. The main objective is to provide key tools for us...e in the care of critically ill patients – from hospital entry to hospital discharge.
The 2022 updated version includes new tools and adapted algorithms, checklists, memory aids for COVID-19 and influenza, and the latest clinical evidence regarding clinical management of SARI. It is intended to help clinicians care for SARI patients: from epidemiology of severe acute respiratory infections, screening and triage, infection prevention and control, monitoring of patients, laboratory diagnosis, principles of oxygen therapy and different types of ventilation (invasive and non-invasive), as well as antimicrobial and immunomodulator therapies, to ethical and quality of care assessments.
The first edition is availbel in Ukrainian and Russian
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AIDSTAR-One | CASE STUDY SERIES November 2012
Open Journal of Psychiatry, 2014, 4, 390-395
Published Online October 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojpsych
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpsych.2014.44045
Miscellaneous
Child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies
Chapter J.1
Summary Report
Accessed: 19.10.2019
An action research conducted in Bang Shau village Northern Shan State, Myanmar
Global AIDS Update 2018
Closing Gaps
Breaking Barriers
Righting injustices
РУКОВОДСТВО ПО ВЕДЕНИЮ НАИБОЛЕЕ РАСПРОСТРАНЕННЫХ БОЛЕЗНЕЙ ДЕТСКОГО ВОЗРАСТА
Второе издание
Данная публикация является вторым изданием Карманного справочника... «Оказание стационарной помощи детям», первое издание которого было выпущено Всемирной организацией здравоохранения (ВОЗ) в 2005 году. В справочнике собрана информация из обновленных руководств ВОЗ по ведению распространенных заболеваний детского возраста в стационарах первого уровня в странах с низкой обеспеченностью ресурса- ми. Справочник содержит современные клинические рекомендации, основанные на фактических данных, которые могут быть использованы врачами в их повседневной работе в больницах, где есть возможность проведения элементарных лабораторных исследований и имеются в наличии недорогие лекарственные средства.
Special attention is drawn to the following sections, which are particulary relevant within the COVID-19 context:
Chapter 4: information on cough and difficulty in breathing, pneumonia and bronchiolitis;
Chapter 10: information on essential supportive care including feeding, fluid and oxygen provision;
Annex 1: information on related practical procedures.
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TEP UP Technical Working Paper
10 May 2021
This scientific brief replaces the WHO Scientific Brief entitled “’Immunity passports’ in the context of COVID-19”, published 24 April 2020.
This update is focused on what is currently understood about SARS-CoV-2 immunity from natural infection. More information about considera...tions on vaccine certificates or “passports” will be covered in an update of WHO interim guidance, as requested by the COVID-19 emergency committee.
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Disease Control Priorities, 3rdEdition: Volume 4.
Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-beingof individuals, families, and societies is large..., growing, and underestimated
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10–11 May 2016, Catania, Italy
Interim practical manual supporting implementation of the WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes