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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 World Health Organization’s Ninth Director-General: The Leadership of Tedros Adhanom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In May, the World Health Assembly elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as its ninth Director-General, the first African to lead the World Health Organization (WHO) since its formation in 1948. Dr.
Schemm, World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization and Anaesthesia [PDF]

open access: yesAnaesthesia, 2007
Summary The World Health Organization has been involved in a wide range of global healthcare initiatives for many years. Recently an initiative ‘ Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ has been launched to improve the safety of surgery throughout the world.
M N, Cherian, A F, Merry, I H, Wilson
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Mucosal vaccines and technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
There is an urgent and unmet need to develop effective vaccines to reduce the global burden of infectious disease in both animals and humans, and in particular for the majority of pathogens that infect via mucosal sites. Here we summarise the impediments
Doavi T   +12 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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A European union and Canadian review of public health nursing preparation and practice. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study explores the preparation and role of the public health nurse (PHN) across European Union (EU) countries (Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and Canadian provinces (Alberta, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island)
Battle Haugh   +37 more
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The World Health Organization and Occupational Health [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 1951
Survey of Work by WHO To deal with special problems, the United Nations have organized several specialized agencies such as FAO for food and agricultural problems, UNESCO for education, and WHO as the specia lized agency responsible for health problems.
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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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Benefit of viral load testing for confirmation of immunological failure in HIV patients treated in rural Malawi. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objective  Viral load testing is used in the HIV programme of Chiradzulu, Malawi, to confirm the diagnosis of immunological failure to prevent unnecessary switching to second-line therapy.
Badri   +14 more
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