This Guideline outlines the purpose and the target audience of the second edition of Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children. It discusses the difference between TB in children and adolescents and TB in adults and provides an estimate of the burden of c...
Skin and mucosal conditions are extremely common in all children and adults in particular in HIV-infected adults and children and are one of the commonest daily management problems faced by health care workers caring for patients with HIV infection. As the CD4 count declines below 200 cells/mm3, the prev...
During 9–12 March 2014, WHO convened a meeting of the Guideline Development Group (GDG) comprising 52 individuals representing a wide range of stakeholders, for the purpose of reviewing, and where appropriate, revising its Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, fourth edition (MEC) guidanc...
This document provides a summary of recommendations for personal protective equipment (PPE) to be used by health workers providing clinical care for patients with filovirus infection (Ebola and Marburg). The document covers the principles guiding the PPE use, recommendations, PPE technical specifications...
The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces oral c...
In this second supplement (December 2014) to the 2013 consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection, recommendations from two guideline development processes are included: post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV; the use of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for H...
Determinar cuál es el mejor algoritmo de diagnóstico en adolescentes y adultos, con infección por VIH/Sida.
Establecer qué valoraciones clínicas y de laboratorio debe incluir la valoración inicial del paciente con diagnóstico de VIH/Sida. Determinar cuál debe ser el tiempo oportuno para el inicio...
Incrementar la oportunidad en el manejo de la sífilis gestacional en gestantes
que acuden a control prenatal. Reducir la variabilidad de la práctica en el manejo de la mujer embarazada con
sospecha o diagnóstico confirmado de sífilis gestacional, así como la del recién nacido
con sospecha o diagnó...
Choi, Won Suk;
Baek, Ji Hyeon;
Seo, Yu Bin;
Kee, Sae Yoon;
Jeong, Hye Won;
Lee, Hee Young;
Eun, Byung Wook;
Choo, Eun Ju;
Lee, Jacob;
Song, Joon Young;
Wie, Seong-Heon;
Lee, Jin Soo;
Cheong, Hee Jin;
Kim, Woo Joo;
Kim, Young Keun.
Severe influenza is defined as influenza with a severe symptom or syndrome such
as respiratory distress or deceased consciousness or accompanying a severe complication such as encephalopathy or renal failure. In contrast to mild influenza, for
which patients recover mostly by ambulatory care, severe infl...
