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Resource type: Training material. This slide presentation provides an overview of the components of a population-based surveillance system for JE. The presentation should be used in conjunction with the World Health Organization's Recommended Standards for Surveillance of Selected … Publication date: 2008. This document provides basic steps and a simple and practical approach for the preparation of a health care waste management (HCWM) plan in small, medium, and large health care establishments. This guide aims to assist managers of health care … Author: World Health Organization. Publication date: 2002. This leaflet outlines the best practices for safe injections, with pictograms to aid in training. Topics include preventing needlestick injuries to the provider, using sterile equipment, preventing contamination of equipment and medication, and … Author: World Health Organization, Safe Injection Global Network, and the International Council of Nurses. Publication date: 2001. This document explains how to correctly build a protected sharps barrel for the disposal of medical waste. It includes drawings to assist in construction. Publication date: 2006. This document explains how to correctly build a protected sharps pit for the disposal of medical waste. It includes drawings for two styles of sharps pits, MSF style and Indonesian style. Publication date: 2006. This comprehensive and regularly updated manual deals with a wide range of scientific and clinical issues relating to child, adult, and traveler immunization. Information is provided on vaccine safety, immunization recommendations, and specific … Author: Public Health Agency of Canada. This set of 17 training modules, developed for refrigerator technicians, includes handbooks on different types of refrigerators, as well as courses on service and repair techniques, repair work, and stocking spare parts, among others.

Author: World Health Organization. This PowerPoint presentation trains doctors and health care workers in areas where Japanese encephalitis is endemic on how to assess a patient presenting with acute encephalitis syndrome. This version has still images only; a version with video … Author: Univerity of Liverpool Brain Infections Group. Publication date: 2008. This presentation provides an overview of the clinical manifestations and diagnosis of encephalitis. This presentation can be adapted for your specific use. Publication date: 2005. This tool is a Microsoft Access-based software tool that helps cold chain managers and public health officers make strategic decisions about managing their cold chain equipment. It is accompanied by a user manual, a set of data collection … Publication date: 2012. This document provides a collection of checklists that serve as a quick-reference communications and social mobilization guide on aspects of routine immunization and disease surveillance, in addition to supplementary immunization for polio … Author: World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, US Agency for International Development. Publication date: 2002. This comprehensive reference tool is intended to help program officers learn about, design, and implement effective research-driven communication programs. Author: United Nations Children's Fund, World Health Organization. Publication date: 2001. As in-country public health logistics systems become more integrated and sophisticated, many countries are looking to automate their logistics management information systems (LMIS) in order to improve the quantity, quality, and timeliness of … Author: US Agency for International Development's DELIVER PROJECT. Publication date: 2012. This document provides guidelines and steps to consider when constructing a protected sharps pit using a plastic barrel as a pit liner. It also contains a drawing of the completed protected sharps pit to assist with planning.

Publication date: 2006. These guidelines, designed for physicians, laboratory workers, and health care administrators, provide comprehensive information on epidemiology and standard techniques for diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of meningococcal disease … Author: World Health Organization. Publication date: 1998. This 30-page manual for program managers helps guide decision-making related to safe syringe disposal at the district level. A range of disposal methods and issues are covered, including practical advice on incineration (with details on two small … Publication date: 2003. This slide presentation give an overivew of the diagnostic and laboratory testing aspects of JE and can be apdated to fit your audience. Publication date: 2007. This 87-page document identifies literature and web resources on costing, cost-benefit analyses, financing, and policy among other issues. Author: World Health Organization, US Agency for International Development, and Partners in Health Reform Plus. Publication date: 2004. This slide presentation gives an overview of the epidemiology of JE and can be adapted for individual use. Publication date: 2007. This web page provides links in both English and French to training materials related to key aspects of human papillomavirus vaccine introduction. It includes separate training modules for the Cervarix™ two dose vial vaccine and the Gardasil™ … Author: World Health Organization. Publication date: 2014. Follow the VRL. Free access to journal articles for users in the developing world. Some resources in the VRL require a subscription to view the full text. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. To learn more and register, visit the HINARI website .