Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are an important cause of severe morbidity, longterm disability and death among both mothers and their babies. In Africa and Asia, nearly one tenth of all maternal deaths are associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, whereas one quarter of maternal deaths in...
Over recent decades, more and more pregnant
women around the world have undergone
induction of labour (artificially initiated labour)
to deliver their babies. In developed countries,
up to 25% of all deliveries at term now involve
induction of labour. In developing countries, the
rates are generally lowe...
HIV is increasingly affecting the health and welfare of children and undermining hard-won gains in child survival in some of the highly affected countries. Recent estimates from UNAIDS suggest that, globally, about 2.1 million children younger than 15 years of age have HIV. The roll out of paediatric HIV...
This 2011 update of Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant
tuberculosis is intended as a tool for use by public health professionals working in response
to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly’s resolution on prevention and control of
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensi...
Esta Guía tiene como propósito contribuir a la disminución de la prevalencia nacional de personas que fuman, al facilitar al equipo de salud, las herramientas necesarias para intervenir en la recuperación de la dependencia del tabaco. El objetivo general es proveer al equipo de salud, recomendaciones...
Kasiske, B. L;
Zeier, M. G;
Chapman, J. R;
Craig, J. C;
Ekberg, H;
Garvey, C. A;
Green, M. D;
Jha, V;
Josephson, M. A;
Kiberd, B. A;
Kreis, H. A;
McDonald, R. A;
Newmann, J. M;
Obrador, G. T;
Vincenti, F. G;
Cheung, M;
Earley, A;
Raman, G;
Abariga, S;
Wagner, M;
Balk, E. M.
The 2009 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guideline on the monitoring, management, and treatment of kidney transplant recipients is intended to assist the practitioner caring for adults and children after kidney transplantation. The guideline development process followe...
To improve survival and quality of life among the 2.5 million children living with HIV, a comprehensive package of prevention, care and treatment is required. This package should include management of infections such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and ear infections, as well as common opportunistic inf...
El objetivo de esta GPC es ofrecer recomendaciones desarrolladas de forma sistemática para ayudar a profesionales y a pacientes a tomar decisiones sobre la atención sanitaria más apropiada, y a seleccionar las opciones diagnósticas o terapéuticas mas adecuadas....
HIV-infected infants frequently present with clinical symptoms in the first year of life. Without effective treatment, an estimated one third of infected infants will have died by one year of age, and about half will have died by two years of age. These treatment guidelines serve as a framework for selec...
For the first time, the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) is now considered a realistic public health goal and an important part of the campaign to achieve the millennium development goals. The 2010 revised PMTCT recommendations are based on two key approaches; lifelong ART for HI...