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Emergency medical teams (EMTs) play an important role in strengthening health service networks in terms of their strategies and tactics for planning mass vaccination programs, especially in remote or under-resourced areas or those overwhelmed by COV ... more
The larval stage of the parasite Taenia solium can encyst in the central nervous system causing neurocysticercosis, which is the main cause of acquired epilepsy in the countries in which the parasite is endemic. Endemic areas are those with the presence (or likely presence) of the full life cycle of ... more
n the countries of the Region of the Americas, there are different forms of organization of health services at the first level of care. Some countries include certain laboratory, dental and diagnostic imaging practices in the first level of care, wh ... more
Este documento apresenta um marco conceitual renovado das funções essenciais de saúde pública (FESP) para a Região das Américas, com o qual se pretende dar maior clareza conceitual e operacionalidade ao novo campo de atuação da saúde pública e preencher uma lacuna nas propostas conceituais ... more
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major global threat across human, animal, plant food and environmental sectors, threatening the effective treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi, resulting in prolonged illness and increased mor ... more
Due to the particular Amazonian situation of vectorial transmission based mostly on the wild cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi with diversity of triatomine vectors involved in effective transmission, and the variety of eco-epidemiological situations that facilitate such transmission, the countries of the A ... more
Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, ... more
El personal de enfermería desempeña un papel fundamental en la promoción de la salud y la prevención de enfermedades, y es uno de los grandes pilares del sistema de atención de salud. No obstante, la escasez de recursos humanos que afecta al sector en todo el mundo repercute en la calidad de lo ... more
Policy Brief November 2021 Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the ongoing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) global crisis due to the increase in the use of antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, disruptions to infection prevention and control practices in o ... more
This regional report on the situation of tuberculosis (TB) in the Americas contains information from 2019, provided by the countries of the Region through the World Health Organization TB data collection system. These data have been consolidated and ... more
Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, whose TB incidence is much higher than that of the general population. To achieve tuberculosis control ... more
El presente decálogo expone de manera concisa los aspectos esenciales de la enfermedad y recoge 10 puntos básicos, esquemáticos y orientados a la práctica para la atención pediátrica de la enfermedad de Chagas.
Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, ... more
Las enfermeras y los enfermeros son actores clave en la promoción de la salud y la prevención de enfermedades y la columna vertebral de los sistemas de atención sanitaria en todo el mundo. Las enfermeras y los enfermeros trabajan en la primera línea de la prevención de enfermedades, la promoci ... more
Este documento ofrece una orientación provisional a los países sobre las consideraciones y estrategias de análisis para los casos sospechosos de hepatitis aguda grave de etiología desconocida en niños. Está dirigido principalmente a las partes interesadas en el ámbito clínico, programático, ... more
Em meados de 2021, os programas nacionais de SIDA começaram a fazer a transição do tratamento para crianças que vivem com VIH dolutegravir (DTG) 10 mg sulcado, comprimidos dispersíveis, também conhecido como DTG pediátrico (pDTG). A rápida introdução e implementação do pDTG é uma priori ... more
Updated 2 June 2022.# This entry contains the Status Report of WHO Collaborating Centres in the Americas by Country and a new document with information of Collaborating Centres by Outcome of the Strategic Plan of the Pan ... more
Este informe presenta los resultados obtenidos de la evaluación de la efectividad de las vacunas contra la COVID-19 en Chile utilizando la red de vigilancia centinela de infecciones respiratorias agudas graves (IRAG). Los resultados que se presentan en este informe provienen de los datos proporcion ... more