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	Guideline for the Treatment of Leishmaniasis in the Americas World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(0) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX 2nd edition. These guidelines include several notable changes from the first edition. For cutaneous leishmaniasis, ketoconazole has been removed from the list of treatment options; the number of Leishmania species for which there is strong evidence for the efficacy of miltefosine has increased from two to four; and the recommendation for intralesional antimonials is now strong. For mucosal leishmaniasis there is now a strong recommendation for use of pentavalent antimonials with or without oral pentoxifylline. For visceral leishmaniasis, the strong recommendations for use of pentavalent antimonials and amphotericin B deoxycholate are now conditional Tags: Leishmaniasis, treatment, Guidelines, Americas, Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/1
	Polio vaccines: WHO position paper – June 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(6268) Download (1237) Add to my MEDBOX This position paper on polio vaccines replaces the 2016 WHO position paper, and summarizes recent developments in the field. Tags: Poliomyelitits, Vaccination, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	WHO Guidelines for malaria World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO View PDF(1631) Download (2152) Add to my MEDBOX 3 June 2022 The WHO Guidelines for malaria bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria in one user-friendly and easy-to-navigate online platform. https://app.magicapp.org/#/guideline/6086 The WHO Guidelines for malaria supersedes 2 previous WHO publications: the Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, third edition and the Guidelines for malaria vector control. Recommendations on malaria will continue to be reviewed and, where appropriate, updated based on the latest available evidence. Any updated recommendations will always display the date of the most recent revision in the MAGICapp platform. With each update, a new PDF version of the consolidated guidelines will also be available for download on the WHO website. The third version of the Guidelines includes a new section on malaria vaccines and replaces the versions published on 16 February 2021 and 13 July 2021 Tags: malaria treatment, Guidelines, vaccine, diagnostic, Vector Control, Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/
	Dengue Situation Update December 642 World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Western Pacific (2022) C_WHO View PDF(909) Download (568) Add to my MEDBOX 24 March 2022 Tags: Dengue fever, Epidemiology, épdemiologie, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030, 2021 Update Pedro Alonso, Kevin Baird, David Brandling-Bennett et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO View PDF(1603) Download (1090) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: strategy, elimination, malaria, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	World Malaria Report 2021 World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(482) Download (612) Add to my MEDBOX TNew data from the World Health Organization reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted malaria services, leading to a marked increase in cases and deaths. According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. This represents about 14 million more cases in 2020 compared to 2019, and 69 000 more deaths. Approximately two-thirds of these additional deaths (47 000) were linked to disruptions in the provision of malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic. As in past years, the report provides an up-to-date assessment of the burden of malaria at global, regional and country levels. It tracks investments in malaria programmes and research as well as progress across all intervention areas. This latest report draws on data from 87 countries and territories with ongoing malaria transmission Tags: malaria control, malaria, Malaria, malaria prevention, malaria diagnositc, Vaccination, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	World Health Organization model list of essential medicines for children: 8th list World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1384) Download (979) Add to my MEDBOX WHO’s Essential Medicines List and List of Essential Diagnostics are core guidance documents that help countries prioritize critical health products that should be widely available and affordable throughout health systems. The updated Essential Medicines List adds 23 medicines for children Tags: essential drug list, Essential Drugs, Essential Medicine, Children, core document, guideline, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Meningitis World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1735) Download (882) Add to my MEDBOX 28 Sept. 2021 The focus of this fact sheet is on the four main causes of acute bacterial meningitis: Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) Haemophilus influenzae Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus Tags: Meningitis, factsheet, Bacterial Meningitis, Source: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheet
	Cholera: Revised cholera kits and calculation tool World Health Organization (WHO) (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1886) Download (581) Add to my MEDBOX In 2016 WHO introduced the Cholera Kits. These kits replace the Interagency Diarrhoeal Disease Kit (IDDK) which had been used for many years. The Cholera Kit is designed to be flexible and adaptable for preparedness and outbreak response in different contexts. The overall Cholera Kit is made up of an Investigation Kit, Laboratory materials, 3 Treatment Kits (community, periphery and central) and a Hardware Kit. The Treatment and Hardware Kits are each composed of individual modules. Each of the kits and modules can be ordered independently based on field need. To support orders, a Cholera Kit Calculation Tool was developed. The information note, packing lists and the Kit Calculation Tool are all available from the WHO website at: http://www.who.int/cholera/kit/en Tags: cholera, emergency care, emergency health kits, clinical practice guidelines, Online Courses, Source: https://openwho.org/courses/cholera-kits
	Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1800) Download (1383) Add to my MEDBOX 2nd. edition The new edition has been developed to make widely available to programme managers, health care workers in endemic settings, academic researchers, and other key partners, a concise source of information on strategies for MMDP for LF. It is a product of efforts to elaborate and concepts and approaches introduced in the previous edition, with a focus on ensuring that countries have the tools necessary to provide the essential package of care for LF Tags: Clinical Guidelines, Lymphatic filariasis, NTD, disability, Prevention, strategy, Source: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665

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