Clinical care for severe acute respiratory infection: toolkit: COVID-19 adaptation
This poster is intended for health workers and other personnel on the safety and mitigation measures that need to be adhered to when dealing with medical oxygen. Medical oxygen, either in liquid or gas form, is an oxidizing agent that can result in a fire or explosion if not handled properly.
At its 48th session of Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), the Committee noted the importance of water quality and safety in food production and processing. CCFH requested the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide guidan...ce for those scenarios where the use of “clean water” (i.e. water that does not compromise the safety of the food in the context of its use) was indicated in Codex texts and on
where it is appropriate to use “clean water”. In particular, guidance was sought for the use of irrigation water and “clean” seawater and on the safe reuse of processing water.
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The risk of emergence and re-emergence of arboviruses with pandemic potential has increased as a global public health threat and will continue to do so in the years to come. The Global Arbovirus Initiative outlines an integrated approach across these viruses and disciplines that will enable optimal ...use of limited resources to achieve the greatest impact, particularly in areas with the heaviest arboviral burden and in areas that are at risk of emergence of arboviruses. Following a series of global consultations and review by the Technical Advisory Group on Arbovirus (TAG-Arbovirus), the Global Arbovirus Initiative and its 6 constituent pillars, each with strategic objectives and priority activities, are consolidated in this reference document.
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A quick reference guide for health authorities and health-care workers
Revised 2015
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (6)
Inerim Guidance. These guidelines have been developed in recognition that infection with Zika virus may present a risk to blood safety, and in consideration of the declaration on 1 February 2016 by the WHO Director-General of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern with regard to clusters... of microcephaly and other neurological disorders, potentially associated with Zika virus. Currently there is limited knowledge of Zika virus biology and lack of definitive evidence of a link between infection and potential complications
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Revised National TB Control Programme. Annual Status Report
Exposure draft for comment October 2013
1st edition.
Unitaid’s report describes a slate of new devices that can more efficiently identify dangerously ill children so that they can be treated immediately. These tools make it easier to recognize danger signs, and support integrated approaches to reducing childhood deaths from the three ...greatest childhood killers: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea.
The report also highlights tests that can determine whether or not a child has an illness that can be treated with antibiotics. Viral infections are a common cause of childhood fevers, but cannot be cured with antibiotics. Although many children seeking care at clinics have fever, three-quarters by some estimates, only a small fraction of those have an illness that can be treated with an antimalarial or antibiotic drug
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La página de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) sobre las enfermedades diarreicas destaca que son la tercera causa de muerte en niños de 1 a 59 meses, causando aproximadamente 443 832 muertes anuales en menores de 5 años. Estas enfermedades, aunque prevenibles y tratables, representan un...a de las principales causas de malnutrición infantil. La diarrea, definida como la evacuación de heces sueltas o líquidas tres o más veces al día, suele ser síntoma de infecciones intestinales transmitidas por alimentos o agua contaminados, o por una higiene deficiente. La prevención incluye el acceso a agua potable, saneamiento adecuado, lavado de manos con jabón, lactancia materna exclusiva durante los primeros seis meses y vacunación contra el rotavirus. El tratamiento se basa en la rehidratación oral con soluciones de sales de rehidratación oral (SRO) y suplementos de zinc. La OMS trabaja con los Estados Miembros para promover políticas que apoyen el manejo de estas enfermedades y mejoren el acceso a agua potable y saneamiento.
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These forms are intended only for clinicians and nurses taking care of patients with Ebola virus disease. They provide standardized information that needs to be collected by the clinicians at admission time, every day and at time of discharge.
L’exercice COVID-19 de Table Top (TTX) est un outil qui a été développé pour aider les gouvernements et les organismes à renforcer les plans et les politiques dans le but d’identifier, de contenir l’apparation de cas de COVID-19 dans le pays. La simulation TTX est conçue pour soutenir l...utilisation de la « liste des repères de préparation opérationnelle pour COVID-19» (voir dans les documents de référence fournis). Cet exercice utilise un scénario commençant avec un cas importé, comme base pour une discussion détaillée guidée par le facilitateur de l’exercice.
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