Families and Societies Working Paper Series Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Specific measures are being taken within the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) to address the MDR TB problem through appropriate management of patients and strategies to prevent the propagation and dissemination of MDR TB.
The term "Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB" (PMD...T) refers to programme based MDR TB diagnosis, management and treatment. This guideline promotes full integration of basic TB control and PMDT activities under the NTP, so that patients with TB are evaluated for drug resistance and are placed on the appropriate treatment regimen and properly managed from the outset of treatment, or as early as possible. The guidelines also integrate the identification and treatment of more severe forms of drug resistance, such as extensively drug resistant TB (XDR TB).
At the end, the guideline introduces new standards for registering, monitoring and reporting outcomes of multidrug resistant TB cases.
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                                                                This document provides guidance to health care workers on the use of the counselling cards. The Counselling cards depict key infant and young child feeding concepts and behaviours for health workers to share with mothers, fathers, grandparents and other caregivers.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Report of the Joint World Health Organization–Brien Holden Vision Institute Global Scientific Meeting on Myopia |  University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 16–18 March 2015
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Chapter I.5
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                 Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The  second  edition  of  the  joint  WHO,  WIPO  and  WTO  
publication  “Promoting  Access  to  Medical  Technologies  
and Innovation: Intersections between public health, 
intellectual  property  and  trade”  (the  Trilateral  Study),*  
published in 2020, included a special insert mappi...ng the 
challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in relation 
to the integrated health, trade and IP policy framework set 
out in the study. The Trilateral Study and the special insert 
were designed to serve as background reference for policy-
makers  in  the  widest  sense  –  lawmakers,  government  
officials,  delegates  to  international  organizations,  non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers 
who seek a comprehensive presentation of the full range 
of  issues,  including  institutions  and  legal  concepts  with  
which they may be unfamiliar. It is also designed to serve 
as a factual resource for the three organizations’ technical 
cooperation activities.
This  update  revises  the  information  contained  in  that  
insert  in  the  light  of  more  recent  developments  as  of  
30 August 2021. Further updates will be made to reflect 
subsequent developments.
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                                                                Building on previous guidelines, the People In Aid Code seeks to offer agencies an effective framework for human resources management, helping them assess and raise their performance.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This position paper on polio vaccines replaces the 2016 WHO position paper, and summarizes recent developments in the field.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Preferential option for the poor in the South African
context of poverty
Missionalia 43:3  (349–364)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                If you are fleeing the war in Ukraine and coming to the European Union, you will find key information about your rights with regard to crossing the border into an EU country, eligibility for temporary protection and applying for international protection, as well as the rights of travel inside the Eu...ropean Union.
Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian
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                                                                This  publication  aims  to  provide  examples  of  better  palliative  care  practices for older people to help those involved in planning and supporting care-oriented services most appropriately and effectively. Examples have been identifi ed from literature searches and from an international call... for examples through various organizations, including the European Association of Palliative Care and the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society. Some examples consider how to improve aspects within the whole health system; specifi c smaller examples consider how to improve palliative care education, support in the community, in hospitals or for specifi c groups of people, such as people in nursing homes and people with dementia and their families. Some examples await rigorous evaluation of effectiveness, and more research is needed in this fi eld, especially the cost–effectiveness and generalizability of these initiatives.
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                                                                The main purpose of the training package is to develop the minimum skills and knowledge required by personnel involved in wheelchair service delivery. An important aim of the training package is to get it integrated into the regular paramedical/rehabilitation training programs such as physiotherapy,... occupational therapy, prosthetics and orthotics, rehabilitation nursing. Towards this, WHO is posting the whole training package in the Website for the training institutes and wheelchair service providers. The easiest way to make use of the training package is to download the complete package (requires 3 GB space). 
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                                                                The recommendations in this guideline are intended to inform development of national and subnational health policies, clinical protocols and programmatic guides. The target audience includes national and subnational public health policy-makers, implementers and managers of maternal, newborn and chil...d health programmes, health-care facility managers, supervisors/instructors for in-service training, health workers (including midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives, nurses, paediatricians, neonatologists, general medical practitioners and community health workers), nongovernmental organizations, professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal, newborn and child health services, academic staff involved in research and in the pre-service education and training of health workers, and those involved in the education of parents.
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