Working with limited resources in armed conflict and other situations of violence. Vol.1
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Accessed: 02.05.2020
These interim IPC recommendations for health settings have been developed through the contributions of many individuals and institutions, such as the Centers for Disease Control-Kenya; ITECH; US Agency for International Development (USAID) Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceu...tical Services (MTaPS) Program; and WHO that are committed to ensuring that the transmission of COVID-19 to HCWs and the public within the health care setting is limited. The Ministry of Health (MOH) through the Directorate of Health Standards Quality Assurance and Regulations wishes to thank all the contributing authors led by the sub-committee on case management and IPC for the COVID-19 response for their expertise and time given to writing these guidelines.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This document contains: The systematic reviews and GRADE assessments used at the Index-TB Guideline Panel in July 2015; The Evidence to Decision tables that record the Panel’s assessment and recommendations from
this meeting
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                23 December 2020 This document summarizes WHO recommendations for the rational use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care settings and temporary strategies during acute supply shortages. This document also contains 2 Annex sections describing updated PPE use recommendations for health... workers based on the transmission scenario, setting, and activity in the context of COVID-19 (Annex 1), and updated considerations for the decontamination or reprocessing of PPE (Annex 2). This guidance is intended for public health authorities, organizations, and focal persons involved in decisions regarding PPE distribution, management, and use by health workers.
Available in Arabic, French, English, Spanish and Russian
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Confronted with the important issue of patient safety, in 2002 the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly adopted a resolution urging countries to pay the closest possible attention to the problem and to strengthen safety and monitoring systems. In May 2004, the Fifty-seventh World Health Assembly approv...ed the creation of an international alliance as a global initiative to improve patient safety. The World Alliance for Patient Safety was launched in October 2004 and currently has its place in the WHO Patient Safety programme included in the Information, Evidence and Research Cluster.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                A guide for practical implementation in adult and pediatric emergency department and urgent care settings
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Funded by CBM: www.cbm.org
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Antibiotics  and  other  antimicrobial  agents  are  invaluable  life  savers,  particularly  in  resource-limited  countries where infectious diseases are abundant. Both uncomplicated and severe infections are potentially curable  as  long  as  the  aetiological  agents  are  susceptible  to  the  ...antimicrobial  drugs.  The  rapid  rate  with  which  antimicrobial  agents  are  becoming  ineffective  due  to  resistance  acquired  as  a  result  of   unchecked  overuse and misuse threatens to undo the benefit of controlling infections. The evidence for resistant microorganisms,  many  times  to  more  than  a  single  antimicrobial  agent,  has  been  observed  globally.  In  Tanzania, there is evidence in the form of  few scattered studies conducted in different parts of  the country in  a  multitude  of   settings  including  health  care  facilities,  the  community,  domesticated  animals  and  wild  animals
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                A desk guide for health facilities . It outlines a comprehensive approach to respiratory health, which health facilities can adapt and implement in resource-limited settings
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Caring for burns patients from the incident scene to definitive treatment can be a complex, resource-consuming process with the potential to overwhelm health system capacity.This document provides practical guidance for building capacity and capability for burns care from clinical, human resources a...nd operational perspectives. It is therefore recommended that guidance in this document be applied to any contexts in which the local health system might struggle to cope and require surge support.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The purpose of this manual is to define a limited number of indicators that will objectively describe the management and use of antimicrobials in hospitals and to provide tools and step-by-step instructions for designing and carrying out an assessment of antibiotic use and management in hospitals. T...he indicators in this manual will complement the existing WHO (1993) indicators of outpatient antimicrobial use suggested in How to Investigate Drug Use in Health Facilities (including percentage of encounters in which an antibiotic was prescribed and percentage of medicine costs spent on antibiotics) and will address the need for antimicrobial indicators for inpatient conditions.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Buruli ulcer (BU), a neglected tropical disease (NTD), is an infection of the skin and subcutaneous  tissue caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. The disease has been documented in many South  American, Asian, and Western Pacific countries and is widespread throughout much of Africa,  especially in West... and Central Africa.
                                                                    more
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                For health care providers.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality in the world. According to estimates by the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (UN MMEIG)1 in September 2017, while the African Region had recorded a significant decline in maternal mortali...ty rate (MMR) of 37.8% between 2000 and 2017, 66% of the 295 000 maternal deaths reported globally occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. The African Region is also noted to have an extremely high MMR, estimated at 542 per 100000 livebirths, with an average annual rate of reduction of 2.9%.
                                                                    more