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Sterilization Manual for Health Centers
The purpose of this manual is to inform health workers on the protocols and simple procedures that have been developed to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The guidelines included in this handbook show which steps to follow in cleaning, preparing, sterilizing, storing, and transporting hospital equipment so as to guarantee sterile materials--awareness of which is crucial in providing patients with safe health care. This page provides a summary and access to the full text in Spanish.
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Infection Control Strategies for Specific Procedures in Health-Care Facilities: Epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases, A Quick Reference Guide
This document is addressed to infection control professionals, occupational health specialists and other professionals involved in patient care in health-care facilities. It is designed to provide quick reference guidance on infection prevention and control to help prevent the transmission of acute infectious respiratory diseases during health care.
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Epidemic-prone & pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases: Infection prevention & control in health-care facilities, Summary guidance
This 44-page handbook provides advice for health-care workers on infection control of acute respiratory diseases (ARDs): reporting and isolating suspected cases; applying standard precautions, standard and droplet precautions, contact and droplet precautions, airborne precautions, and ventilating with regard to influenza-like illness (ILI) and viral, bacterial, and novel ARDs (e.g. SARS).
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Sterilization Manual for Health Centers
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Infection Control Strategies for Specific Procedures in Health-Care Facilities: Epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases, A Quick Reference Guide
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Epidemic-prone & pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases: Infection prevention & control in health-care facilities, Summary guidance
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Infection Prevention and Control of Epidemic- and Pandemic-Prone Acute Respiratory Diseases in Health Care: WHO Interim Guidelines
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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008
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TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)
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EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 25—18 August 2004
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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 15—15 April 2004
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CD48/20 Violence and Injury Prevention
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Position of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department on Malaria Treatment Policy
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Agreements: Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)
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WHA56.R29: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Resolution of the World Health Assembly
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Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings
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Population Groups | |
Workshop: Capacity-Building for Tuberculosis Control, with Specific Focus on TB/HIV Control
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Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
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IInd International Workshop on TB Control in Prisons (Lima, Peru, 18–20 August 2004)
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Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)
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Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: An Environmental Health Manual for Use by your Family and Community
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Social Communication | |
PAHO Regional Program on Dengue
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Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers
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Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: An Environmental Health Manual for Use by your Family and Community
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Comprehensive Care | |
Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)
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Price of Treatment | |
Cost of Hospital Infection in Nine Countries of Latin America
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Best Practices | |
Tuberculosis: A Manual for Medical Students
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Quality Control | |
CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
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Regional Meeting of the Tuberculosis Laboratory Network (Mexico City, 6–8 September 2004)
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Malaria Rapid Diagnosis—Making It Work: Informal Consultation on Field Trials and Quality Assurance on Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests
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TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)
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Report of a Lessons Learnt Workshop on the Six ProTEST Pilot Projects in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia (Durban, South Africa, 3–6 February 2003)
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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 14—8 April 2004
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Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities
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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 14—8 April 2004
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Pan American Health Organization's Proposed Contribution to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / Latin America and Caribbean Bureau's Amazon Malaria Initiative (AMI): Project Proposal and Workplans for Years 2 & 3 (March 2003)
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Central American Network for the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (RECACER)
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Executive Report: Subregional Meeting of the Central American Network for the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases (RECACER) (Costa Rica, 21–22 February 2002)
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TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)
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Surveillance Networks for Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in Latin America and the Caribbean
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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 14—8 April 2004
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Status of TB Operations (Region of the Americas, 2004)
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WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance
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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008