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Documents listed by year of publication

2013

• Comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control: a healthier future for girls and women
  WHO guidance note
• Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
  The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
• Long-term effects of breastfeeding: a systematic review
• Pocket book of hospital care for children: Second edition
  Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses
• Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity
  Meeting report and packages of interventions: WHO HQ, February 2012

2012

• An equity-focused strategy to improve access to essential treatment services for children
• Born too soon: the global action report on preterm birth
• Care for child development: improving the care for young children
• Caring for the newborn at home
  A training course for community health workers
• Developmental difficulties in early childhood: prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low- and middle-income countries: a review
• Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation
• HIV and infant feeding 2010: an updated framework for priority action
  WHO guidelines
• Informal meeting on provision of home-based care to mother and child in the first week after birth
  Follow-up to the Joint WHO/UNICEF statement on home visits for the newborn child, meeting report, 8–10 February 2012
• Levels and trends in child mortality
• Making health services adolescent friendly: developing national quality standards for adolescent friendly health services
• MCA progress report 2010-2011: highlights
  WHO's Department of Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
• Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions
  Evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations
• Saving mother's and children's lives
  Video
• WHO recommendations for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage

2011

• Clarifying WHO position on misoprostol use in the community to reduce maternal death
  Statement
• District planning tool for maternal and newborn health strategy implementation
• Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries
• Integrated management of childhood illness: caring for newborns and children in the community
• Levels and trends in child mortality
• Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals
• Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries
  WHO guidelines
• Priority medicines for mothers and children 2011
  Ensuring access to priority medicines for mothers and children improves health and saves lives.
• Strengthening midwifery toolkit
• Strengthening the adolescent component of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health programmes: a training course for public health managers
• WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
• WHO statement on antenatal care

2010

• Adolescent job aid
  A handy desk reference tool for primary level health workers
• CAH progress report highlights 2009
• Countdown to 2015: taking stock of maternal, newborn & child survival
  Decade Report (2000-2010)
• Essential newborn care course
• 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
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part II: measurement
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part III: country profiles
• Joint Action for Results - UNAIDS Outcome Framework:
  Business Case 2009–2011
• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
• Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health and survival: report on WHO/IPU meeting, Kampala, Uganda, 23-25 November 2009
• PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015
  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals
• Report of the WHO technical consultation on neonatal vitamin A supplementation research priorities
  Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 December 2008
• Second global consulation on service provision for adolescents living with HIV
  Consensus statement
• Strengthening the health sector response to adolescent health and development
  Flyer
• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank
• WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children
• WHO technical consultation on postpartum and postnatal care
• Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health

2009

• A qualitative review of psychosocial support interventions for young people living with HIV
• Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast-milk substitutes
• Analytic case studies: initiatives to increase the use of health services by adolescents
• Annual report 2008
• CAH progress report highlights 2008
• Capacity building workshop
  For The Global Fund proposal writing to include MNH service delivery area for health systems strengthening
• Counselling for maternal and newborn health care
  A handbook for building skills
• Development of a Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
  Report of an informal consultation, Chavannes de Bogis, Switzerland, 25-27 February 2008
• Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
• Effectiveness of shortened course (≤ 3 days) of antibiotics for treatment of acute otitis media in children
  A systematic review of randomized controlled efficacy trials
• Generating demand and community support for sexual and reproductive health services for young people
  A review of the literature and programmes
• Global action plan for prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP)
• Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve millennium development goal 4
  Consultation proceedings, Geneva, 26–27 March 2009
• IMAI one-day orientation on adolescents living with HIV
  Participants manual, Facilitator guide
• Infant and young child feeding - tools and materials
• Infant and young child feeding: Model Chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness computerized training tool
• Mainstreaming adolescent pregnancy in the work of the World Health Organization
  Report of the Expert Group meeting
• Managing programmes to improve child health
  Introduction, planning implementation, managing implementation, workbook, facilitator guide
• Measuring maternal mortality from a census - guidelines for potential users
• Parliamentarians take action for maternal and newborn health: report on meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, 26-28 November 2008
• 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
• Quality assessment guidebook
  A guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients
• Regional highlights 2009
• Report on maternal and child health in Namibia
• Safer pregnancy in Tamil Nadu
  From vision to reality
• 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

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of shortening Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines training
  Final report
• Annual report 2007
  WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
• Child and adolescent health and development: progress report 2006-2007
• Complementary feeding counselling
  A training course
• Countdown to 2015: tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival
  The 2008 report
• Global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia (GAPP): Report of an informal consultation
  Informal consultation at La Mainaz, Gex, France, 5–7 March 2007
• Global Guidance Briefs on HIV interventions for young people
• HIV and infant feeding counselling tools
• IMCI chart booklet - standard
• IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings
• Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – part I: definition
• Introducing zinc in a diarrhoeal control programme
  Guide to conducting formative research
• Managing eclampsia
  Midwifery education module 5
• Managing incomplete abortion
  Midwifery education module 6
• Managing postpartum haemorrhage
  Midwifery education module 2
• Managing prolonged and obstructed labour
  Midwifery education module 3
• Managing puerperal sepsis
  Midwifery education module 4
• Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
• More Positive Living
  Strengthening the health sector response to young people living with HIV
• MPS briefing
• MPS Notes: adolescent pregnancy
  Volume 1, No.1
• Report of a technical consultation on IMCI training approaches and pre service IMCI
  Geneva, Switzerland, 19-23 November, 2007
• Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes
  Report of proceedings, Geneva, 6-9 October 2008
• Strengthening the health sector response to care, support, treatment and prevention for young people living with HIV
• Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services
• The international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes
  Frequently asked questions
• The midwife in the community
  Midwifery education module 1 (foundation module)

2007

• A financial road map to scaling up essential child health interventions in 75 countries
• A research agenda for childhood tuberculosis
  Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
• Adolescents, social support and help-seeking behaviour
  An international literature review and programme consultation with recommendations for action
• Annual Report 2006
  WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
• CAH progress report 2006
• Concerted WHO efforts to address adolescent health and development
  Leaflet
• Early child development: a powerful equalizer
• Evidence on the long-term effects of breastfeeding
  Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• Helping parents in developing countries improve adolescents' health
• HIV and infant feeding: new evidence and programmatic experience
  Report of a technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mother and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2006
• 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
• HIV transmission through breastfeeding
  A review of available evidence
• Improving paediatric referral care in the context of child survival activities and IMCI
  Review of processes to improve paediatric care in small hospitals in developing countries
• Indoor air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections in children
  Report of a symposium held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, 4 September 2006, presenting preliminary results of a randomized intervention trial in Guatemala and a workshop discussing the implication for policy, advocacy and future research
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth
  Report from a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), September 2005, Johannesburg
• Joint statement on the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition
• Malaria in pregnancy
  Guidelines for measuring key monitoring and evaluation indicators
• Married adolescents: no place of safety
• Maternal mortality in 2005
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank
• Meeting of development partners report - Stockholm
  Maternal and newborn health: with a focus on country implementation, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-22 June 2006
• Meeting of women parliamentarians report
  Maternal and newborn health and survival, London, United Kingdom, 13-14 March 2007
• Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and newborn health and services at the district level
  Technical consultation meeting report, 5-8 December 2006
• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2004
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Note for the record report - New York
  United Nations partners meeting on maternal health, New York, 13 September 2006
• Planning guide for national implementation of the Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Production of zinc tablets and zinc oral solutions
  Guidelines for programme managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Scaling up child survival interventions in Cambodia
  The cost of national programme resource needs: final report, 19 June 2007
• Standards for maternal and newborn health
  Group 1: General standards of care for healthy pregnancy and childbirth
• Summaries of projects in developing countries assisting the parents of adolescents
• The adolescent with a chronic condition
• The impact of zinc supplementation on childhood mortality and severe morbidity
  Report of a workshop to review the results of three large studies
• The Lancet child development in developing countries series
• WHO discussion papers on adolescence
• 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 policy brief for Global Fund proposal development on malaria in pregnancy
• WHO recommendations for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage
• WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health
  Integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth

2006

• Annual Report 2005
  WHO Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
• CAH progress report 2004-2005
• Guidelines for adaptation of the WHO orientation programme on adolescent health for health care providers in Europe and Central Asia
• IMCI Complementary course on HIV/AIDS
• Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal–newborn health
• Inter-agency reproductive health kits for crisis situations
• Making a difference in countries: Strategic approach to improving maternal and newborn survival and health
  Ensuring skilled care for every birth
• Midwifery education modules
  Education material for teachers of midwifery
• Neonatal and perinatal mortality 2000
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Obstetric fistula
  Guiding principles for clinical management and programme development
• Orientation programme on adolescent health for health-care providers
• Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care
  A guide for essential practice
• Pregnant adolescents
  Delivering on global promises of hope
• Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people
  A systematic review of the evidence from developing countries
• Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage by active management of third stage of labour
  MPS technical update
• Responsive parenting: interventions and outcomes
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2006
• The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality
• The effect of maternal–newborn ill-health on households
  Economic vulnerability and social implications
• 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
• Promoting the health of mothers and newborns during birth and the postnatal period
  Report of the collaborative Safe Motherhood pre-congress workshop, International Confederation of Midwives, Brisbane, Australia, 21-23 July 2005
• Psychosocial support for children and adolescents
• Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing
• Sexually Transmitted Infections among adolescents
  The need for adequate health services
• The treatment of diarrhoea
  A manual for physicians and other senior health workers
• The World Health Report 2005
  Make every mother and child count

2004

• A review of the technical basis for the control of conditions associated with GAS infections
• A simple solution
  TIME; October 16, 2006, pp40-47
• Adolescent health and development in nursing and midwifery education
• Beyond the numbers
  Reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer
• CAH progress report 2002-2003
• 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
• CHERG abstraction exercise
• CHERG estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of five years
• CHERG estimates of the burden of mortality directly attributable to malaria for children under 5 years of age in Africa for the year 2000
• CHERG methods and assumptions for diarrhoea mortality estimates
• Child health in the community - "Community IMCI"
  Briefing package for facilitators
• Clinical management of acute diarrhoea
  WHO/Unicef joint statement
• Consultation on child health in complex emergencies
  Meeting report
• Consultative meeting to review evidence and research priorities in the management of ARI
• Dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome in the context of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
• Diarrhoea treatment guidelines including new recommendations for the use of ORS and zinc supplementation for clinic-based healthcare workers
• Effective teaching
  A guide for educating healthcare providers
• Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) course
• Epidemiology and management of common skin diseases in children in developing countries
• Ethambutol efficacy and toxicity
  Literature review and recommendations for daily and intermittent dosage in children
• Family and community practices that promote child survival, growth and development
  A review of the evidence
• Global consultation on the health services response to the prevention and care of HIV/AIDS among young people
  Achieving the global goals: access to services
• Group A streptococcal vaccine development: current status and issues of relevance to less developed countries
• 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 counselling: from research to practice
• HIV and infant feeding data analysis
  Workshop report
• HIV and infant feeding generic slide set
• HIV and infant feeding: a guide for health-care managers and supervisors
• HIV and infant feeding: guidelines for decision-makers
• Home-modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?
  Discussion paper prepared for HIV and infant feeding technical consultation, 25-27 October 2006
• How to address psychosocial reactions to catastrophe
• Implementing the new recommendations on the clinical management of diarrhoea
  Guidelines for policy makers and programme managers
• Indoor air pollution and child health in Pakistan
  Report of a seminar held at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, 29 September 2005
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling
  An Integrated Course
• Informal consultation on clinical use of oxygen
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent
  WHO statement
• Key issues in the implementation of programmes for adolescent sexual and reproductive health
• Low birthweight
  Country, regional and global estimates
• Making pregnancy safer: The critical role of the skilled attendant
  A joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO
• Management of pneumonia in community settings
  WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement
• Management of sick children by community health workers
  Intervention models and programme examples
• Maternal mortality in 2000
  Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA
• Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
  Third edition
• Mental health and psychosocial well–being among children in severe food shortage situations
• Methodology and assumptions used to estimate the cost of scaling up selected child health interventions
  Technical working document
• Model IMCI handbook: Integrated management of childhood illness
• National AIDS programmes : a guide to indicators for monitoring and evaluating national HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for young people
• Newborn health policy and planning framework
  Working version
• Optimal feeding of low-birth-weight infants
  Technical review
• Oral Rehydration Salts
  Production of the new ORS
• Pneumonia: the forgotten killer of children
• Protecting young people from HIV and AIDS
  The role of health services
• Risk and protective factors affecting adolescent reproductive health in developing countries
• 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
• Situation analysis of household energy use and indoor air pollution in Pakistan
• TB/HIV: A clinical manual
• Technical updates of the guidelines on the IMCI
  Evidence and recommendations for further adaptations
• The current evidence for the burden of group A streptococcal diseases
• The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young children
  A review
• The Lancet Neonatal survival series
• UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding
• Update on dissemination and use of new and revised HIV and infant feeding publications
• Urinary tract infections in infants and children in developing countries in the context of IMCI
• What are the options?
  Using formative research to adapt global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context
• WHO, UNICEF, and SCN informal consultation on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children
  SCN Nutrition Policy Paper No. 21

2003

• Antenatal care in developing countries
  Promises, achievements and missed opportunities: an analysis of trends, levels and differentials, 1990-2001
• Building the evidence base on the provision of health care to children in complex emergencies: Report of the working group
• Community-based strategies for breastfeeding promotion and support in developing countries
• Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation, and summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Discussion paper 146: moving forward with complementary feeding
  Indicators and research priorities
• Explore simplified antimicrobial regimens for the treatment of neonatal sepsis
  Meeting report, Geneva, 30th September – 1st October 2002
• Global strategy for infant and young child feeding
• Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child
• Health facility survey
  Tool to evaluate the quality of care delivered to sick children attending outpatient facilities
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
  Geneva, 3-5 February 2003 : Meeting report
• 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
• Special supplement of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin based on a WHO expert consultation on complementary feeding
• Strategic directions for improving the health and development of children and adolescents
• Surgical care at the district hospital
• The analytic review of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy
  Final report
• The Lancet Child survival series

2002

• A healthy start in life
  Report on the global consultation on child and adolescent dealth and development
• Adolescent friendly health services
  An agenda for change
• Better health for poor children
  A special report
• Breastfeeding and maternal medication
  Recommendations for drugs in the eleventh WHO model list of essential drugs
• Child health research: A foundation for improving child health
• Evidence base for the community management of pneumonia
• Global action for skilled attendants for pregnant women
• Global consultation on adolescent friendly health services
  A consensus statement
• Growing in confidence
  Lessons from eight countries in successful scaling up of adolescent health and development programming
• 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
• Improving diarrhoea estimates
• Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life
• Report of informal technical meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding
  3-5 December 2002, Washington, D.C.
• Young people and HIV/AIDS
  Opportunity in crisis

2001

• Breastfeeding and replacement feeding practices in the context of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
  An assessment tool for research
• Broadening the horizon: balancing protection and risk for adolescents
• CAH progress report 2000-2001
• Cough and cold remedies for the treatment of acute respiratory infections in young children
• Counselling skills training in adolescent sexuality and reproductive health
  A facilitator's guide, updated version
• IMCI care for development
  For the healthy growth and development of children
• IMCI model chapter for textbooks
• IMCI planning, implementing and evaluating pre-service training
• IMCI reference library of selected materials
• IMCI technical seminars
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review
• The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: report of an expert consultation
• The second decade: Improving adolescent health and development

2000

• Boys in the picture
• Reproductive health during conflict and displacement: a guide for programme managers
• What about boys?
  A literature review on the health and development of adolescent boys

1990-1999

• A critical link: Interventions for physical growth and psychological development
• Action for adolescent health: Towards a common agenda
  Recommendations from a joint study group
• Breastfeeding and maternal tuberculosis
• Breastfeeding counselling: a training course
  Director's guide, trainer's guide and participants' guide
• Bronchodilators and other medications for the treatment of wheeze-associated illnesses in young children
• Care in normal birth: a practical guide
• Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children
• Evidence for the ten steps to successful breastfeeding
• Guidelines for follow-up after training in the WHO/UNICEF course on IMCI for first-level health workers
• Guidelines for monitoring the availability and use of obstetric services
• Hepatitis B and breastfeeding
• HIV and infant feeding counselling: a training course
• Hypoglycaemia of the newborn
  Review of the literature
• IMCI in-service training
  Set of training modules, facilitator's guides and course director's guide
• IMCI information package
• IMCI planning guide
  Gaining experience with the IMCI strategy in a country
• Improving child health IMCI
  The integrated approach
• Improving family and community practices
  A component of the IMCI strategy
• Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices
• 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
• Programming for adolescent health and development
  Report of a WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF study group
• 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