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...
Schools are essential for young people to acquire knowledge, socioemotional skills including selfregulation and resilience, and critical thinking skills that provide the foundation for a healthy future. Access to education and safe and supportive school environments have been linked to better health outc...
Plague has killed millions of people during the past 25 centuries, and the disease reappeared in several countries during the 1990s. Consequently, plague was categorized as a re-emerging disease. Human plague outbreaks continue to be reported, including an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar in 20...
Securing equitable access to health services for rural and remote populations continues to
be a challenge for governments and policymakers around the world. At the core of this
complex challenge is a global shortage of well trained, skilled, motivated health workers.
In 2016, the World Health Organizatio...
Evidence from a systematic review on antenatal zinc supplementation was evaluated as part of the World
Health Organization (WHO) antenatal care (ANC) guideline development process in 2016, and the following
recommendation on zinc supplementation was made: “Zinc supplementation for pregnant women is onl...
More people die each year from cardiovascular diseases than from any other cause. Over three
quarters of heart disease and stroke-related deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries.
Hypertension – or elevated blood pressure – is a serious medical condition that significantly increases the...
The postnatal period, defined here as the period beginning immediately after the birth of the baby and extending
up to six weeks (42 days), is a critical time for women, newborns, partners, parents, caregivers and families. Yet,
during this period, the burden of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbid...
Rochwerg, Bram;
Agoritsas, Thomas;
Lamontagne, François;
Leo, Yee-Sin;
Macdonald, Helen;
Agarwal, Arnav;
Zeng, Linan;
Lytvyn, Lyubov;
Appiah, John Adabie;
Amin, Wagdy;
Arabi, Yaseen;
Blumberg, Lucille;
Burhan, Erlina;
Bausch, Frederique;
Calfee, Carolyn S;
Cao, Bin;
Cecconi, Maurizio;
Chanda, Duncan;
Cooke, Graham;
Du, Bin;
Dunning, Jake;
Geduld, Heike;
Gee, Patrick;
Hashimi, Madiha;
Hui, David S;
Kabra, Sushil;
Kanda, Seema;
Kawano-Dourado, Leticia;
Kim, Yae-Jean;
Kissoon, Niranjan;
Kwizera, Arthur;
Laake, Jon Henrik;
Machado, Flavia R;
Mahaka, Imelda;
Manai, Hela;
Mino, Greta;
Nsutebu, Emmanuel;
Pshenichnaya, Natalia;
Qadir, Nida;
Sabzwari, Saniya;
Sarin, Rohit;
Sharland, Michael;
Shen, Yinzhong;
Ranganathan, Shalini Sri;
Souza, Joao;
Ugarte, Sebastian;
Venkatapuram, Sridhar;
Dat, Vu Quoc;
Vuyiseka, Dubula;
Wijewickrama, Ananda;
Maguire, Brittany;
Zeraatkar, Dena;
Bartoszko, Jessica;
Ge, Long;
Brignardello-Petersen, Romina;
Siemieniuk, Reed;
Guyatt, Gordon;
Diaz, Janet;
Jacobs, Michael;
Vandvik, Per Olav.
What is the role of drug interventions in the treatment of patients with covid-19? The latest version of this WHO living guidance focuses on remdesivir, following the 15 October 2020 preprint publication of results from the WHO SOLIDARITY trial. It contains a weak or conditional recommendation against th...
Since 2007 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have recommended voluntary medical male
circumcision (VMMC) as an important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually
acquired HIV in men in settings where the prevalence of heterosexually trans...
WHO estimates that in 2015, 257 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B
virus (HBV) infection worldwide, and that 900 000 had died from HBV infection, mostly
as a result of cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Most HBV-associated deaths among
adults are secondary to infections acquired at b...
