This document provides interim guidance for clinicians, laboratories, health workers, public health officials and
other stakeholders involved in the diagnosis and care of patients with suspected or confirmed mpox. This is an updated version of the interim guidance on Laboratory testing for the monkeypox ...
The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with COVID-19. Providing guidance that is comprehensive and holistic for the optimal care of COVID-19 patients throughout their entire illness is impor...
COVID-19/complicaciones,
COVID-19/diagnóstico,
Máscaras,
Salud Global,
Hospitalización,
Respiración Artificial,
Choque Séptico,
Lactancia Materna,
Embarazo,
Síndrome de Dificultad Respiratoria/etiología,
Neumonía Viral/etiología,
Cuidados Paliativos,
Rehabilitación,
Manejo de Atención al Paciente/organización & administración
In this guideline, WHO recommends that long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) may be offered as an additional HIV prevention option for people at substantial risk of HIV infection. CAB-LA is an injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that has been shown to be highly effective at reducing...
Cryptococcal disease is one of the most common opportunistic infections among people living with advanced HIV disease and is a major contributor to severe illness, morbidity, and mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
These guidelines update the recommendations that were first released in 2018 ...
The purpose of the WHO Guideline for clinical management of exposure to lead is to assist physicians in making decisions about the diagnosis and treatment of lead exposure for individual patients and in mass poisoning incidents.
The guideline presents evidence-informed recommendations on:
the interpret...
Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 is a critical component to the overall prevention and control strategy for COVID-19. Countries should have a national testing strategy in place with clear objectives that can be adapted according to changes in the epidemiological situation, available resources and tools,...
Worldwide, people acquire more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every day. Based on prevalence data from 2009 to 2016, in 2019, WHO published estimates of new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and trichomoniasis, showing total estimated incident cases of 376.4 million ...
The primary audience for this guideline is national HIV programme managers, people living
with HIV, health-care providers and policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries. This
guideline update will be a useful resource for clinicians and should help to shape the priorities
of policy-makers in devel...
The consolidated WHO Guidelines for malaria present all of the
current WHO recommendations for malaria. These are the product
of careful evaluation following standardized methods as part of the
WHO normative processes [1]. WHO uses strictly defined
processes to assess the quality, consistency and complet...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, despite being largely curable and preventable. In 2019 an estimated 2.9 million of the 10 million people who fell ill with TB were not diagnosed or reported to the World Health Organization. The Political Declaration adopted by...