January 2019
Non Communicable Disease Control Programme Directorate General of Health Services Health Services Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Rabies is entirely preventable, and vaccines, medicines, tools and technologies have long been available to prevent people from dying of dog-mediated rabies. Nevertheless, rabies still kills about 60 000 people a year, of whom over 40% are children under 15, mainly in rural areas of economically dis...advantaged countries in Africa and Asia. Of all human cases, up to 99% are acquired from the bite of an infected dog.
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                                                                For those passionate about advancing public health education in their medical schools
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Antibiotic resistance (ABR) particularly hits resource poor countries, and is fuelled by irrational antibiotic (AB) prescribing. We surveyed knowledge, attitudes and practices of AB prescribing among medical students and doctors in Kisangani, DR Congo.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This report recounts the experiences of 27 physicians and other health workers in Syria (all but two of them Syrian) who struggle to provide trauma care and health services to a population under assault.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                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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                                                                Modern  healthcare  has  given  rise  to  extremely  complex  and  multifaceted   ethical   dilemmas.   All   too   often   physicians   are   unprepared  to  manage  these  competently.    This  publication  is  specifically  structured  to  reinforce  and  strengthen  the  ethical mindset and prac...tice of physicians and provide tools to find ethical solutions  to  these  dilemmas.  It  is  not  a  list  of  “rights  and  wrongs”  but an attempt to sensitise the conscience of the physician, which is the basis for all sound and ethical decision-making. To this end, you will find several case studies in the book, which are intended to foster individual ethical reflection as well as discussion within team settings.
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                                                                The Faster We Go, the Health We'll Be.
The report outlines five climate solutions that research shows will deliver immediate, often localized, health and equity benefits. Our focus is on the solutions that proactively advance both health and health equity, recognizing that some of us face greater h...ealth risks than others.
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                                                                The global pandemic has highlighted fragility in international supply chains and the dependency of many African countries on imported personal protective equipment (PPE). Market pressures have also increased prices for imported supplies and put additional pressure on areas with limited resources for... procurement. There is an urgent operational need to develop the domestic capacity to supply PPE from within the African continent. There is huge variation in Member
States industrial manufacturing capacity and the regulatory and testing capacity of government agencies at present. Growing number of companies, including micro- and small-medium enterprises, have responded by repurposing, albeit temporarily, to manufacture an assortment of PPEs. This workshop aims to bring together government representatives, industry, and subject matter experts on material testing and standards to promote the development of domestic production of safe and effective PPE made in Africa.
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                                                                This Guide contains information, guidelines, diagrams and other materials addressed to medical practitioners who are engaged in the treatment of casualties of chemical weapons. It is made available to the public for information purposes, but is not intended to be used by the public. All decisions re...garding patient care must be made with a healthcare provider and consider the unique characteristics of each patient.
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                                                                The Director’s guide contains all the information that the course director needs in order to plan and prepare for the course, to decide which modules and sessions will be included in the training, and to select trainers and participants, starting several months before the actual training. It conta...ins lists of the materials and equipment needed, and sample timetables. Copies of the forms to be photocopied and used during the course can be found in the Course handouts. The Director’s guide also describes the director’s role during the course itself.
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                                                                The country profiles incorporate facts indicating the national status of medical devices in areas such as: medical device policies, regulations, incorporation, lists, inventories, nomenclature, health technology assessment, management, and biomedical engineering resources. This publication is int...ended for use as a reference by decision-makers in Ministries of Health, nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions involved in health technology at the district, national, regional, or global levels.
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                                                                The document introduces a simple classification, minimums standards and a registration form for Foreign Medical Teams (FMTs) that may provide surgical and trauma care arriving within the aftermath of a sudden onset disaster. These can serve as tools to improve the coordination of the foreign medical... team response, and be the reference for registration on arrival as well as a possible global registration mechanism similar to what exists for urban search and rescue teams
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                                                                This publication is based on the list of clinical interventions selected from clinical guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, monitoring and end of life care. This publication addresses medical devices for six types of cancer: breast, cervical, colorectal, leukem...ia, lung and prostate. The first section defines the global increase in cancer cases, the global goals to manage NCDs and the WHO activities related to these goals. The second section presents the methodology used for the selection of medical devices that support clinical interventions required to screen, diagnose, treat and monitor cancer stages, as well as the provision of palliative care, based on evidence-based information. The third section lists the priority medical devices required to manage cancer in seven different units of health care services: 1. Vaccination, clinical assessment and endoscopy, 2. Medical imaging and nuclear medicine, 3. Surgery, 4. Laboratory and pathology, 5. Radiotherapy, 6. Systemic therapy and 7. Palliative and end of life care
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