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- COVID-19 v4: operational support and logistics: disease commodity packages (2020)
- WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings, 2021: COVID-19 and other health priorities (2022)
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• Los dispositivos médicos enumerados en este documento proporcionan estándares mínimos y descripciones técnicas y especificaciones de dispositivos médicos para el tratamiento de soporte de COVID-19.§ • Estos dispositivos médicos no son limitados y son adaptables a todos los p...
Updated 10 August 2020
This document presents an essential medicines list (EML) to manage patients in intensive care units (ICUs) with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, which includes active ingredients with dosage form and concentration, and are preferably in the WHO Model Lists of Essent...
Este documento presenta una actualización de las recomendaciones interinas de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud para la gestión de los casos de COVID-19 en los servicios de salud. La lista de dispositivos médicos prioritarios en el contexto de la COVID-19 proporciona normas mínimas, desc...
Oxygen is an essential medicine required at all levels of the health care system; only high quality, medical-grade oxygen should be given to patients. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants are a source of medical-grade oxygen. This document provides technical specifications as th...
This guideline is for:
• health and care practitioners
• health and care staff involved in planning and delivering services
• commissioners.
The recommendations bring together:
• existing national and international guidance and policies
• advice from specialists working in the NHS fr...
This document is updated.
Please check the document:Priority medical devices list for the COVID-19 response and associated technical specifications
Les médecines traditionnelles à base de plantes ou phytomédicaments jouent un rôle important dans la gestion des maladies en Afrique et sont largement utilisées comme médecines alternatives. Il est donc important d'évaluer à la fois la sécurité et l'efficacité de ces actifs botaniques ind...
Note: this list is provided as an indicative list only. It does not have legal status. Example list from Ethiopia
Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list
Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an integral component of treatment within the continuum of care, developing and disseminating the Model List ...
30 April 2020
| COVID-19: Essential health services
A recent study informed that ivermectin was successfully used in vitro for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in experimentally infected cells and two preprint publications on observational clinical studies reported the apparent utility of ivermectin to treat patients with COVID-19 needing mechanical venti...
تقوم الأدوية التقليدية أو الأدوية النباتية المعتمدة على الأعشاب بدور كأدوية بديلة. عليه، فإنه من المهم ٍ واسعٍم على نطاقَستخدُالأمراض في إفريقيا وتتقييم كلٍّ من س...
Последнее обновление: 6 марта 2020 г.
Лабораторное подтверждение случая COVID-19 влечет за собой тщательное расследование. Поскольку в настоящий момент в продаже еще н...
Countries can use this tool to collect in-depth facility inventories of biomedical equipment re-allocation, procurement and planning for COVID-19 case management. The survey assesses quantified availability and the causes for non-functioning of different sources of oxygen delivery and supply systems...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is concerned about inaccurate information being distributed through traditional and social media regarding prevention and treatment of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
إن حول الإصدارات الإعلامية للنتائج الأولية للتجربة الإكلينيكية العشوائية ٍّتام) والتي تضمنت ديكساميثازون على إدراك Africa CDC المركز الأفريقي لمكافحة الأمراض و الوقاي...
The WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (COVID-19-ESFT) is meant to help countries forecast essential supplies for their COVID-19 response including personal protective equipment (e.g., masks and gloves), biomedical equipment for case management (e.g., ventilators and oxygen concentrato...
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