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World Health Organization [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 2016
The World Health Organization, situated in Geneva, Switzerland, since its establishment on 7 April 1948, is working for the betterment of health and sanitary conditions across the globe through its six regional offices spanning the different continents.
Cherian, Varghese   +4 more
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Global research priorities related to the World Health Organization Labour Care Guide: results of a global consultation

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2023
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) published the WHO Labour Care Guide (LCG) in 2020 to support the implementation of its 2018 recommendations on intrapartum care.
World Health Organization Labour Care Guide Research Prioritization Group
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Mobile Money and the importance of timely, complete payments to frontline health campaign workers in the fight to eradicate polio: pilot experience from a World Health Organization digital payment platform in Africa

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background In response to the increase in vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and many other African countries from 2017 to 2019, concentrated efforts are needed to improve the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns. Frontline polio
Ahmed Hamani   +8 more
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The approach of World Health Organization to articulate the role and assure impact of vaccines against antimicrobial resistance

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global problem and there were an estimated 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR worldwide in 2019.
Isabel Frost   +4 more
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Supporting countries to achieve their malaria elimination goals: the WHO E-2020 initiative

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2021
Background Malaria causes more than 200 million cases of illness and 400,000 deaths each year across 90 countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal for 35 countries to eliminate malaria by 2030, with an intermediate milestone of 10 ...
Kim A. Lindblade   +5 more
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Reforming the World Health Organization

open access: yesJAMA, 2011
IN DECEMBER 2010, JACK CHOW, 1 THE FORMER WORLD Health Organization (WHO) assistant directorgeneral, asked, “Is the WHO becoming irrelevant?” A month later, the WHO’s executive board considered the agency’s future within global health governance. After a yearlong consultation with member states on its financing, Director-General Margaret Chan called ...
Sridhar, Devi, Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Tools and approaches to operationalize the commitment to equity, gender and human rights: towards leaving no one behind in the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2018
The objective of this article is to present specific resources developed by the World Health Organization on equity, gender and human rights in order to support Member States in operationalizing their commitment to leave no one behind in the health ...
Gerardo Zamora   +6 more
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