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27 Sep 2024
WHO has progressively strengthened its work for adolescent health, growing its portfolio of research, norms and standards, country support and advocacy, and expanding the scope of work across over 17 departments, regional and country offices to address the multifaceted needs of the global adolescent population. Central to a coordinated approach to adolescent health across the organization is the H...
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27 Sep 2024
Access to appropriate, affordable, effective, and safe health technologies is paramount, especially in low-resource settings, where burden of non-communicable diseases adds on to the infectious diseases. NCDs account for a staggering 74% of global deaths, with 86% of premature fatalities occurring in resource-constrained regions. Cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic resp...
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27 Sep 2024
This WHO checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2023 (GPW13). This checklis...
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27 Sep 2024
This is an article about nutrition during the palliative care period. I think the authors summarize this best, “Within the quintessentially human belief that food is love, we discovered a unique opportunity to offer a family in crisis a few concrete tools with which to honor and affirm their roles and responsibilities as primary caretakers and good parents. By listening and aligning our medical...
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27 Sep 2024
Obesity is a worldwide epidemic in children and adolescents. This meta-analysis supports a significant adverse association of overweight and obesity on survival of pediatric leukemia
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27 Sep 2024
Clinicians caring for children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often faced with managing complicated nutritional conditions alongside delivering the cancer therapy. Thus, the delivery of appropriate nutritional support based on available infrastructure is essential in order to optimize health outcomes for children with cancer located in LMICs. The Nutrition Working Grou...
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10 Sep 2024
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 74% of all deaths and 86% of premature deaths in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet, the world is far from meeting the globally agreed targets for their control. Even in this unprecedented era for discovery of new therapies for NCDs, the ability to equitably deliver both old and new interventions is lagging. WHO h...
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09 Sep 2024
The first edition of Basic occupational safety and health for respiratory diseases: A desk guide for health facilities outlines a comprehensive approach to respiratory health, which health facilities can adapt and implement in resource-limited settings. The topics that are covered include definitions of occupational safety, basics of respiratory micro-organisms and how they are...
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09 Sep 2024
This resource provides practical guidance for front line health workers responsible for the diagnosis, management and care of patients with these two diseases. Published in collaboration with the World Diabetes Foundation.
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20 Aug 2024
To scale up noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health country action, funding was provided to the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Controls of NCDs by the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnership for activities to be jointly undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These activities were conducte...
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20 Aug 2024
This document is the ninth in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries and is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and asthma. This is also intended as an advocacy tool to widely include health care professionals, in particular pulmonologists and respirologists, in the fight for tobacco control and prevention of tobacco related adverse...
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19 Aug 2024
This paper focuses on expanding access to biotherapeutics in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through public health non-exclusive voluntary intellectual property licensing.The key elements identified as relevant to support access to affordable biosimilars in LMICs through licensing include:Prioritising potential biotherapeutic targets according to their potential for public health impactSu...
