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Meningitis outbreak response in sub-Saharan Africa: WHO guideline

World Health Organization.

For over 100 years, major epidemics of meningococcal disease have occurred every few years within the African meningitis belt, which runs across the continent from Senegal to Ethiopia. The objectives of this review were to revise WHO guidelines on control of epidemic meningitis in subSaharan Africa conce...

Brotes de Enfermedades, Meningitis Bacterianas/prevención & control, Meningitis Bacterianas/tratamiento farmacológico, África del Sur del Sahara/epidemiología, Meningitis Bacterianas/diagnóstico, Meningitis Bacterianas/epidemiología, Vacunas Meningococicas/administración & dosificación, Profilaxis Antibiótica/métodos, Vacunas contra Haemophilus/administración & dosificación, Juego de Reactivos para Diagnóstico, Prevalencia, Incidencia, Trazado de Contacto

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Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children

World Health Organization.

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...

Antituberculosos/administración & dosificación, Tuberculosis/tratamiento farmacológico, Tuberculosis/prevención & control, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/prevención & control, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/tratamiento farmacológico, Tuberculosis/diagnóstico, Quimioterapia Combinada

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Infection prevention and control of epidemic-and pandemic prone acute respiratory infections in health care

World Health Organization.

This document is an update to the World Health Organization (WHO) interim guidelines Infection prevention and control of epidemic- and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases in health care (2007). These updated guidelines incorporate the emergency guidance given in the WHO publication Infection preven...

Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Grave/prevención & control, Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Grave/diagnóstico, Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Grave/transmisión, Atención a la Salud, Hospitales de Aislamiento/normas, Equipo de Protección Personal

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Comprehensive cervical cancer control: a guide to essential practice

World Health Organization.

This publication, Comprehensive cervical cancer control: a guide to essential practice (C4GEP), gives a broad vision of what a comprehensive approach to cervical cancer prevention and control means. In particular, it outlines the complementary strategies for comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and c...

Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/prevención & control, Promoción de la Salud, Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/diagnóstico, Neoplasias del Cuello Uterino/terapia, Vacunas contra Papillomavirus, Servicios Preventivos de Salud

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Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy

World Health Organization.

These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder. They have been develope...

Efectos Tardíos de la Exposición Prenatal/terapia, Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/diagnóstico, Atención Prenatal, Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/terapia, Síndrome de Abstinencia Neonatal/terapia, Lactancia Materna

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