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What's New

Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008

Sterilization Manual for Health Centers

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Prevention and Control

Featured Prevention and Control Items

The 5 Key Ways Project: Adapting the WHO Manual on Food Safety for Use in Guatemalan Elementary Schools
Taking into account that schools are an important space to promote the development of healthy lifestyles in children, the manual Bringing Food Safety Home: Using the WHO Five Keys to Safer Food has been adapted for use in primary schools in Guatemala. This page describes the project and offers access to the three manuals, the poster, the INCAP fact sheet, and the progress report.
fos-5-claves-proyecto.htm

PAHO Resolutions and Regional Mandates

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CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety

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CD47.R18: Health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

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CD45.R8: Disaster Preparedness and Response

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CD44.R6: Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons Learned over 25 Years and Future Challenges

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WHO Resolutions and Global Mandates; Policy Documents

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CD48/20 Violence and Injury Prevention

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WHA58/27: Improving the Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance

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WHO-EB115.R6: Antimicrobial Resistance: A Threat to Global Health Security

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WHA51.17: Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases: Antimicrobial Resistance

Global Strategies

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About Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

Disease Management Guidelines

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Sterilization Manual for Health Centers

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Neglected Tropical Diseases: Innovative and Intensified Disease Management

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WHO Report on Infectious Diseases: Overcoming Microbial Resistance

Best Practices

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

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

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

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Maternal and Child Health Activities at the Local Level: Towards the Goals of the World Summit for Children

Treatment and Treatment Guidelines

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Toward Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: 3 by 5 Report for the Americas

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EID Weekly Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 22—1 July 2004

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Protocol for Calculating the Cost of Hospital Infections (Washington, DC, 2000)

Quality of Care

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CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety

Secondary Prevention

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Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: An Environmental Health Manual for Use by your Family and Community

Reports

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Epidemiological Alerts Archives, 2003–2008

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

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

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Annual Regional Report from Countries Participating in the Network for Monitoring and Surveillance of Resistance to Antibiotics (2002 data) (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10–13 May 2003)

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Population Groups

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CD47.R18: Health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Vector Control

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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

Environmental Health

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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

Social Communication (including Health Promotion)

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

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

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

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

... more Social Communication.

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Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)

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