World Health Organization
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Publication
17 Oct 2018
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.
78 Resources
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World Health Organization
Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition
Report
17 Oct 2018
This action plan illustrates a series of priority actions that should be jointly implemented by Member States and international partners to achieve, by the year 2025 through the six global nutrition targets.
World Health Organization
Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into paediatrics.
Publication
10 Aug 2018
People younger than 20 years comprise 35% of the global population and 40% of the global population of least-developed nations. The number of children – neonates, infants, children, and adolescents up to 19 years of age – who need pediatric palliative care (PPC) each year may be as high as 21 million. Another study found that almost 2.5 million children die each year with serious healthrelated...
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
Breast Cancer Knowledge Summaries
Database
01 Mar 2017
National breast cancer control programs can be developed and implemented at all resource levels. Successful breast cancer programs offer women with breast cancer the best possible outcomes while effectively using available resources. Breast cancer care is most successful when prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and palliation are integrated and synchronously developed.Breast Health G...
World Health Organization
WHO guidelines on the management of health complications from female genital mutilation
Guide
05 Jun 2016
These guidelines are intended primarily for health-care professionals involved in the care of girls and women who have been subjected to any form of female genital mutilation (FGM).This document also provides guidance for policy-makers, health-care managers and others in charge of planning, developing and implementing national and local health-care protocols and policies. The information contained...
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), World Diabetes Foundation
Hyperglycemia and Pregnancy in the Americas
Report
08 May 2015
Final report of the Pan American Conference on Diabetes and Pregnancy Lima (Peru), 8-10 September 2015