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...
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...
WHO promotes a public health approach to programming and delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART), which has enabled access to treatment and care for people living with HIV to be scaled up in resource-limited settings.
The 2016 WHO consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating an...
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...
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...
The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing of patients who meet the definition of suspected case of pneumonia associated with a novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan, China....
This document is intended for clinicians taking care of hospitalised adult and paediatric patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when a nCoV infection is suspected. It is not meant to replace clinical judgment or specialist consultation but rather to strengthen clinical management of the...
This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on the use of indicators for assessing a population’s iron status and application of the use of ferritin concentrations for monitoring and evaluating iron interventions. his guideline aims to help WHO Member States and their partners to ...
The political declaration at the first United Nations (UN) high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) held
on 26 September 2018 included commitments by Member States to four new global targets.3
One of
these targets is to diagnose and treat 40 million people with TB in the 5-year period 2018–2022. The
ap...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) prevention, care and control for 2015–2035 (known as the End TB Strategy) prioritizes the early diagnosis of TB. This prioritization includes cases of smear-negative disease, which are often associated with coinfection with HIV ...
