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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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PAHO Activities

PAHO Programs

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

Partnerships to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance in South America: An Integrated Approach

PAHO Regional Program on Food Safety: Working to Prevent and Control Food-Borne Diseases

Regional Program on Antimicrobial Resistance: Combatting Resistance to Antibiotics in the Americas

Community-Based Projects

The 5 Key Ways Project: Adapting the WHO Manual on Food Safety for Use in Guatemalan Elementary Schools

The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Content Manual)

Progress made in the Project on Adaptation and Validation of the 5 Key Ways Manual on Food Safety in Elementary Schools in Guatemala

Activity Book, The 5 key ways to keep your food safe (Teacher's Guide)

Proceedings from Conferences and Meetings

Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics, 2004 (Brasilia, Brazil, 27-29 July 2005)

V^th Meeting of the Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Amazon Countries

Recommendations of a Group of Experts: Standards for the Use of Automated Identification Systems for Bacteria and Susceptibility to Antimicrobials (Brasilia, Brazil, 26–28 October 2004)

Annual Report of the Monitoring/Surveillance Network for Resistance to Antibiotics 2003

Other Events

European Antibiotic Awareness Day (18 November 2008)