Taenia solium is a zoonotic tapeworm found globally but with particularly high transmission and hyperendemnicity in parts of Latin America, South and South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Depending on its life cycle, it causes two distinct presentations in humans: taeniasis and (neuro) cysticercosis. A...
WHO guideline on school health services: Web Annex F. Systematic reviews of the effectiveness and acceptability of comprehensive school health services: GRADE evidence profiles and evidence-to-decision table In partnership with WHO guideline on school health services Web Annex F. Systematic reviews of th...
El panel priorizó la posibilidad de una reducción significativa en la mortalidad por sobre la incertidumbre en los efectos
de la intervención (muy baja certeza en la evidencia), los efectos adversos del tratamiento y la carga del tratamiento en
términos de utilización de recursos necesarios para imp...
Cervical cancer is a leading cause of mortality among women. In 2020, an estimated 604 000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer worldwide and about 342 000 women died from the disease. Cervical cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in 23 countries and is the leading cause of cancer death in 3...
This WHO guideline is an update of the specific recommendation in the technical annex of the 2007 Joint Statement by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSSCN) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on...
Direct maternal infections around the time of childbirth account for about one tenth of
the global burden of maternal death. Women who develop peripartum infections are also
prone to severe morbidity, long-term disabilities such as chronic pelvic pain, fallopian tube
blockage and secondary infertility. M...
Direct maternal infections around the time of childbirth account for about one tenth of the
global burden of maternal death. Women who experience peripartum infections are also
prone to severe morbidity and long-term disabilities such as chronic pelvic pain, fallopian
tube blockage and secondary infertil...
La enfermedad por el Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) es una patología respiratoria de humanos producida por SARS-CoV-2. El 11 de marzo de 2020 la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró al COVID-19 como una pandemia, y desde ese momento se han reportado en Argentina más de 3.000.000 casos confirma...
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is commonly defined as a blood loss of at least 500 mL within 24 hours after birth and affects about 5% of all women giving birth around the world. Globally, nearly one quarter of all maternal deaths are associated with PPH and, in most low-income countries, it is the main ca...
Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a health systems perspective and for the users of these interventions. Self-care interventions hold the promise to be good for everyone and to move us closer to realizing universal hea...