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WHO launches CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses
Full text linkWHO has launched a new network for coronaviruses, CoViNet, to facilitate and coordinate global expertise and capacities for early and accurate detection, monitoring and assessment of SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and novel coronaviruses of public health importance. CoViNet expands on the WHO COVID-19 reference laboratory network established during the early days of the pandemic. Initially, the lab network was focused on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but will now address a broader range of coronaviruses, including MERS-CoV and potential new coronaviruses. CoViNet is a network of global laboratories with expertise in human, animal and environmental coronavirus surveillance. The network currently includes 36 laboratories from 21 countries in all 6 WHO regions. Representatives of the laboratories met in Geneva on 26 – 27 March to finalize an action plan for 2024-2025 so that WHO Member States are better equipped for early detection, risk assessment, and response to coronavirus-related health challenges
WHO Monographs on Medicinal Plants Commonly Used in the Newly Independent States (NIS)
No full textSince 1999, WHO has published four volumes of WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants, totaling 116 monographs. Despite the increasing use of herbal medicines, there is still a significant lack of research data in this field, so the WHO monographs play a critical role. Moreover, the format of the WHO monographs is increasingly adopted for developing national monographs
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis Module 1: prevention - tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition
Full text link268 p.The 2024 recommendations for the programmatic management of TPT are released as part of Module 1 of the WHO consolidated TB guidelines series. The guidelines are complemented by an operational handbook, that provides practical advice on how to implement the recommendations at the scale needed to achieve national and global impact. The guidelines and the handbook are the second edition of the documents and update the edition that was first published in 2020
WHO guidelines for malaria
No full text463 p.This version of the Guidelines includes an updated recommendation for malaria vaccines, new recommendations on the use of near-patients qualitative and semiquantitative G6PD tests to guide anti-relapse treatment of P. vivax and P. ovale, updated recommendations on primaquine and the recommendation on the use of tafenoquine
Using WHO Mortality Data For International Comparison
No full textThe World Health Organization provides detailed mortality data files through the WHO Mortality Database (WHO MDB). While valuable information is available from the WHO MDB, there are some inherent difficulties in the utilisation of such data for the user. Through describing the procedures for downloading and formatting the data, and the utilisation of the available data, the author aims to promote the MDB for wider application by mortality researchers
WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee
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