Education and training resource package for scaling-up professional competencies of primary health care providers
Blood transfusion
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Safe blood and blood products distance learning material (2002)
Safe Blood and Blood Products is a series of interactive learning materials designed for use in distance learning programmes in blood safety. They have been produced for staff with responsibility for donor recruitment and for the collection, processing and issue of blood for transfusion. -
Establishing a distance learning programme in blood safety: A guide for programme coordinators – the clinical use of blood
Through the development of these materials, WHO aims to support national blood programmes in ensuring the safety of national blood supplies and their accessibility and appropriate use for all patients who require transfusion. -
Stop the global epidemic of chronic disease: A practical guide to successful advocacy (2006)
This manual is a guide and practical tool for all advocates of chronic disease prevention and control. It presents a simple seven-step plan for effective advocacy, including identifying target audiences, developing key messages and selecting implementation strategies. It is part of a larger WHO advocacy toolkit on preventing chronic disease. -
Reproductive Health and Making Pregnancy Safer Guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections (2003)
A companion publication to Sexually Transmitted and Other Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide to Essential Practice. This publication presents the revised recommendations, both for a syndromic approach to the management of patients with STI symptoms and for the treatment of specific STIs, based on evidence and epidemiological surveillance data from around the world. It also provides information on the notification and management of sexual partners and on STIs in children and adolescents. -
Managing Newborn Problems: A guide for doctors, nurses, and midwives (2003)
This guide is designed to assist countries with limited resources in their efforts to reduce neonatal mortality and to ensure care for newborn babies with problems due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, such as asphyxia, sepsis, and low birth weight or pre-term birth. The main section of this guide is arranged by clinical signs or findings, which facilitates early identification of illness, and provides up-to-date guidelines for clinical management. -
Transforming health system: Gender and rights in reproductive health (2001)
This contains six core modules covering gender and ethical issues in research policy and how to influence change, and health systems. The modules constitute a training resource for health trainers to use with health managers, planners, policy-makers and others with responsibilities in sexual and reproductive health. The contents of these modules are the result of a four-year testing and adaptation process involving strong collaboration with institutions in different parts of the world. -
Fight for life (DVD)
Fight for Life chronicles the difficulties experienced in the lives of women giving birth in developing countries and illustrates best practices that can help reduce the high rates of maternal and infant mortality. Each of the programmes in this series was filmed in a different country. The programme was broadcast on BBC World and later on numerous national television stations around the world. Filming for the programmes took place in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Malawi, Mongolia, the Republic of Moldova and Uganda. -
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) 2008: Informing best practice in sexual and reproductive health
RHL is an electronic review journal published by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. RHL takes the best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing countries. -
Documents and web site contents 2007
A powerhouse of information on the work of the Department, this CD contains the entire web site of WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including full texts of key reports of the Department and many of the publications found in this catalogue. The specific thematic areas of work of the Department, selected on the basis of its comparative advantage, include: promoting family planning; improving maternal and perinatal health; controlling sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections; preventing unsafe abortion; advancing gender equality; reproductive rights; sexual health and sexual and reproductive health of adolescents; and evaluating sexual and reproductive health.