Abstract The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years has a broad scope aligned with WHO’s ...

Wasting describes a condition where a child is dangerously thin for their height, typically due to sudden and severe weight loss. It greatly raises the risk of death but can be effectively treated. In ...

Summary box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 ...

Impact of a malaria intervention package in schools on Plasmodium infection, anaemia and cognitive function in schoolchildren in Mali: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial ...

Background The design of this study was intended to evaluate the use of saliva as a reliable non-invasive tool for the genomic and immunological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Republic of ...

Background Abandoned water closets can serve as reservoir habitat for mosquitoes especially the Asian tiger mosquitoes. Botanicals larvicides are among the recommended strategies used in Integrated ...

Background During malaria in pregnancy (MiP), Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes sequester in the placenta, causing placental malaria (PM) and poor pregnancy outcomes, including low ...

Tuti T, Bitok M, Malla L, et al. Improving documentation of clinical care within a clinical information network: an essential initial step in efforts to understand and improve care in Kenyan hospitals ...

Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (28 June, 2022 ...

Introduction With maternal mortality ratios higher than 100 per 100,000 live births in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), reducing these deaths features high on international public health ...

Background Tuberculosis (TB)-affected communities are often highly vulnerable, with social, economic, and biological factors increasing risk of TB and other chronic conditions, whilst impeding ...

Objective Universal health coverage (UHC) is about ensuring that people have access to the health care they need without suffering financial hardship (WHO, 2021). With rising noncommunicable disease ...