During public health emergencies, people need to know what health risks they face, and what actions they can take to protect their health and lives. Accurate information provided early, often, and in languages and channels that people understand, trust and use, enables individuals to make choices and tak...
Tacconelli, E;
Cataldo, MA;
Dancer, SJ;
De, Angelis, G;
Falcone, M;
Frank, U;
Kahlmeter, G;
Pan, A;
Petrosillo, N;
Rodríguez-Baño, J;
Singh, N;
Venditti, M;
Yokoe, DS;
Cookson, B.
Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. These evidence-based guidelines have been produced after a systematic review of published studies on infection prevention and control interventions aimed ...
Anti-Infective Agents, Local,
Chlorhexidine,
Bacterial Typing Techniques,
Cross Infection,
Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control,
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial,
Gram-Negative Bacteria/isolation & purification,
Hand Hygiene,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Infection Control,
Risk Factors,
Cross Infection/prevention & control,
Cross Infection/transmission,
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/prevention & control,
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/transmission
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...
Disease Outbreaks,
Meningitis, Bacterial/prevention & control,
Meningitis, Bacterial/drug therapy,
Africa South of the Sahara/epidemiology,
Meningitis, Bacterial/diagnosis,
Meningitis, Bacterial/epidemiology,
Meningococcal Vaccines/administration & dosage,
Antibiotic Prophylaxis/methods,
Haemophilus Vaccines/administration & dosage,
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic,
Prevalence,
Incidence,
Contact Tracing
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 guidance provided in this document is intended to encourage the principles of early detection of measles outbreaks, thorough assessment, and a rapid response that includes expanded use of measles vaccine. The nature and extent of the vaccination response should be based on an assessment of risk of sp...
This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan, the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published by WHO in March 2005. The information and recommendations contained in this guidance document are the product of expert. In light of these...
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings. This publication is intended to contribute to prevention an...
Dengue/diagnosis,
Dengue/therapy,
Dengue/prevention & control,
Endemic Diseases/prevention & control,
Incidence,
Dengue/epidemiology,
Mosquito Control/methods,
Insect Vectors,
Aedes,
Dengue,
Diagnosis, Differential,
Disease Reservoirs,
Disease Outbreaks
