Guidelines for Handling Temperature Sensitive Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals
January 2020 to December 2021
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) October 4, 2019 / 68(39);851–854
The new WHO guidelines provide recommended steps for safe phlebotomy and reiterate accepted principles for drawing, collecting blood and transporting blood to laboratories/blood banks.
Expanding access to quality health services through task sharing
The updated List of Essential Diagnostics contains 46 general tests that can be used for routine patient care as well as for the detection and diagnosis of a wide array of disease conditions, and 69 tests intended for the detection, diagnosis and monitoring of specific diseases.
The List is divid...ed into two sections depending on the user and setting: one for community settings, which includes self-testing; and a second one for clinical laboratories, which can be general and specialized facilities.
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The workshop is structured around 13 learning modules. The first module (Introduction) gives an overview of WSPs. The last module (Module 12) introduces participants to the quality assurance tool for WSPs (WHO & IWA, 2012). Modules 1–11 relate explicitly to the WSP manual produced by IWA and WHO (...Bartram et al., 2009), from which the workshop is designed.
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Interim Framework for the South-East Asia Region 28 October 2020
Interagency Guidelines; Medicines and medical devices for 10 000 people for approximately three month.