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Management of MDR-TB : A field guide

Management of MDR-TB: a fi eld guide was created to help health workers carry out these tasks. It is a job aid that medical offi cers and TB nurses are meant use frequently during the day for quick reference. This module is closely related to other clinical guideline modules in the Integrated Manage...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Risk assessments of Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens

FAO and WHO undertook a risk assessment of Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens in response to requests for expert advice on this issue from their member countries and from the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Guidance on this issue is needed, as salmonellosis is a leading cause of foodborne illnes...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Global Tuberculosis Report 2019

This year��s global TB report reveals that countries are making progress. About 7 million people were reported to have been reached with quality TB care in 2018, up from 6.4 million in 2017. In addition, TB-related deaths dropped from 1.6 million in 2017 to 1.5 million in 2018. However, TB remains t...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Review of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, May 2017

This report provides an overview of the WHO Secretariat��s consultations with the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and other relevant international organizations, specifically FAO and OIE, and with the newly created Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme Revised National Strategic Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20

The Ministry of Health greatly acknowledges the contributions of various TB, TB/HIV and Leprosy stakeholders as well as institutions that supported the review of this five-year NTLP Strategic Plan, 2015/16 - 2019/20. The review was necessitated largely by the need to reflect the findings and program...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Global Tuberculosis report 2015.

The year 2015 is a watershed moment in the battle against tuberculosis (TB). It marks the deadline for global TB targets set in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and is a year of transitions: from the MDGs to a new era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and from the Stop...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion- Transmissible Infections

Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention that has an essential role in patient management within health care systems. All Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly resolutions WHA28.72 (1) in 1975 and WHA58.13 (2) in 2005. These commit them to the pr...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Implementing the WHO stop TB strategy : A handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

This publication draws upon current guidelines and information documents issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which provide more detailed guidance on implementation for each of the specific subject areas. The listed references are limited to key readings for implementation of programme act...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Collaborative framework for care and control of tuberculosis and diabetes

Diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). Consequently, rates of TB are higher in people with diabetes than in the general population, and diabetes is a common comorbidity in people with TB. Diabetes can worsen the clinical course of TB, and TB can worsen glycaemic control in people...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Community involvement in tuberculosis care and prevention Towards partnerships for health

This publication provides guiding principles for WHO Member States to promote the involvement of people with tuberculosis (TB) and the community in TB care and prevention. These recommendations are designed to support health policy-makers - and patients�� groups and local partners - in including com...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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A manual for management of tuberculosis and leprosy in Uganda.

This revised manual provides an update on those and other areas and pays special attention to the key role of the district TB/leprosy supervisors (DTLS). It provides guidance on how the district TB and leprosy supervisor (DTLS) function relates to the health facility staff on the one hand and the he...

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

Important recent changes or additions to guidelines for the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children have made it necessary to revise the first edition of Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children, published by WHO in 2006. Like the 2006 guidance,...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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TB Impact Measurement Policy and recommendations for how to assess the epidemiological burden of TB and the impact of TB control

Global targets for reducing the epidemiological burden of tuberculosis (TB) - measured as incidence, prevalence and mortality - have been set for 2015 within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and by the Stop TB Partnership. The targets are that the TB incidence rate should be fa...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Fluorescent light-emitting diode (LED) microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis Policy statement

Conventional light microscopy of Ziehl-Neelsen-stained smears prepared directly from sputum specimens is the most widely available test for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in resource-limited settings. Ziehl-Neelsen microscopy is highly specific, but its sensitivity is variable (20-80%) and is signif...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Tuberculosis and Leprosy Case Management Desk Guide 2019

This TB and Leprosy Management Desk Guide is produced by the Ministry of Health National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme based on current Tuberculosis and Leprosy guidelines and field implementation experiences. The flip chart is intended to support the roll out of updated guidelines and serve as...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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WHO Policy on TB Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, Congregate Settings and Households

This document is an evidence-based policy for the implementation of sound tuberculosis (TB) infection control by all stakeholders. TB infection control is a combination of measures aimed at minimizing the risk of TB transmission within populations. The foundation of infection control is early and ra...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Global Plan to End TB 2016 -2020

Measured by the numbers of people who die each year, tuberculosis (TB) is the world��s deadliest infectious disease. Transmitted through the air and primarily targeting the lungs, this disease caused by a bacterial infection claims three lives every minute.1,2 In 2014, more than 9 million people bec...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Cholera Outbreak, Assessing the Outbreak Response and Improving Preparedness Global Task

Cholera outbreak response generally focuses on medical aspects that are important for lowering mortality. However, a more comprehensive response is needed to limit the spread of the disease. As the outbreak response is often led by medical professionals, other aspects, such as environmental or commu...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating efforts towards elimination. The document will also be inform...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Anthrax in humans and animals

Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the enormous successes of Max Sterne��s veterinary vaccine developed in the 1930s, and subsequent analogs in the former Soviet Union, in dramatically reducing the incidence of the disease in livestock...

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Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Informing Health Decisions and Actions

Mpox Surveillance Reporting Protocol for African Union Member States

Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa

Mpox Technical Factsheet

Mpox Molecular Diagnostic Tests(RT-PCR)

Sub thematic area: Communicable Diseases

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Did you know about these facts?

Malaria

Malaria is endemic in 42 African countries & more than 90% of it's clinical cases across the world every year are in Africa.

HIV/AIDS

Africa has 11% of the world’s population & 60% of people with HIV/AIDS.

NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

These such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and injuries represented 27% of the total burden of disease in Africa.