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Documents on guidelines

2013

• Comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control: a healthier future for girls and women
  WHO guidance note
• Pocket book of hospital care for children
  Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses: Second Edition

2012

• Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation
• Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions
  Evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations

2010

• Adolescent job aid
  A handy desk reference tool for primary level health workers
• Facts for life
  Fourth edition
• Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding 2010
  Principles and recommendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children

2009

• Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast-milk substitutes
• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Primary Child Care: A manual for health workers
• Promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health through schools in low income countries: an information brief
  Geneva, 2008
• Traditional male circumcision among young people
  A public health perspective in the context of HIV prevention
• WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children
  A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund

2008

• IMCI chart booklet - standard
• IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research
• Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
• The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes
  Frequently asked questions

2007

• Helping parents in developing countries improve adolescents' health
• HIV and infant feeding: update
  Based on the Technical Consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions
  Guidelines for programme managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Standards for maternal and newborn health
  Group 1: General standards of care for healthy pregnancy and childbirth
• WHO HIV and infant feeding technical consultation - consensus statement
  Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, mothers and their infants
• WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health
  Integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth

2006

• Inter-agency reproductive health kits for crisis situations
• Obstetric fistula
  Guiding principles for clinical management and programme development
• Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care
  A guide for essential practice
• Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage by active management of third stage of labour
  MPS technical update
• The interagency emergency health kit 2006
  Medicines and medical devices for 10,000 people for approximately 3 months: an interagency document
• The role of the health sector in strengthening systems to support children’s healthy development in communities affected by HIV/AIDS: A review

2005

• Pocket book of hospital care for children
  Guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources
• Psychosocial support for children and adolescents
• Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing
• The treatment of diarrhoea
  A manual for physicians and other senior health workers

2004

• Adolescent health and development in nursing and midwifery education
• Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current Asian emergency, and caution about unnecessary use of milk products
  WHO, UNICEF, ICRC, IFRC statement
• Clinical management of acute diarrhoea
  WHO/Unicef joint statement
• Diarrhoea treatment guidelines including new recommendations for the use of ORS and zinc supplementation for clinic-based healthcare workers
• Ethambutol efficacy and toxicity
  Literature review and recommendations for daily and intermittent dosage in children
• Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children
• Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1
• Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
• HIV and infant feeding: a guide for health-care managers and supervisors
• HIV and infant feeding: guidelines for decision-makers
• How to address psychosocial reactions to catastrophe
• Implementing the new recommendations on the clinical management of diarrhoea
  Guidelines for policy makers and programme managers
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent
  WHO statement
• Management of pneumonia in community settings
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
  Third edition
• Oral Rehydration Salts
  Production of the new ORS
• Protecting young people from HIV and AIDS
  The role of health services
• Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use
  Second edition
• Serious childhood problems in countries with limited resources
  Background book on Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
• TB/HIV: A clinical manual
• Technical updates of the guidelines on the IMCI
  Evidence and recommendations for further adaptations
• UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding

2003

• Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Infant and young child feeding
  A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes
• Kangaroo mother care: a practical guide
• Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth
  A guide for midwives and doctors
• Managing newborn problems
  A guide for doctors, nurses and midwives
• Surgical care at the district hospital

2002

• Better health for poor children
  A special report
• Breastfeeding and maternal medication
  Recommendations for drugs in the eleventh WHO model list of essential drugs
• IMCI adaptation guide
  A guide to identifying necessary adaptations of clinical policies and guidelines, and to adapting the charts and modules for the WHO/UNICEF course
• Improving child health in the community

2001

• Cough and cold remedies for the treatment of acute respiratory infections in young children

2000

• Reproductive health during conflict and displacement: a guide for programme managers

1990-1999

• Breastfeeding and maternal tuberculosis
• Bronchodilators and other medications for the treatment of wheeze-associated illnesses in young children
• Care in normal birth: a practical guide
• Guidelines for monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services
• Hepatitis B and breastfeeding
• Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
  Guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries
• Mastitis: causes and management
• Mother-Baby Package: Implementing safe motherhood in countries
• Oxygen therapy for acute respiratory infections in young children in developing countries
• Relactation: review of experience and recommendations for practice
• Reproductive health for refugees: an inter-agency field manual
• Technical bases for the WHO recommendations on the management of pneumonia in children at first-level health facilities
• Thermal protection of the newborn: a practical guide