WHO: Malaria Case Management Operations Manual

Strategies for malaria case management should be considered an integral part of malaria control programmes. They must be based on sound epidemiology in the area in question, taking into consideration the population at greatest risk, including young children, pregnant women, residents of certain geographical areas and occupational risk groups, as well as the seasonality of malaria. Knowledge about the local pattern of resistance of parasites to antimalarial drugs is also essential in planning case management.

WHO: HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Guide for Implementation

This guide assumes the following to be either in place or in development in each country in the Region with the initiation of ART:

• Top-level political commitment to ART;
• Adequate financial resources for ART implementation;
• An uninterrupted supply of commodities, including ARV dugs;
• An enabling regulatory framework for training and certifying new and existing health workers;
• National guidelines for HIV/AIDS treatment and care; and
• Accelerated HIV/AIDS prevention programmes.
  
  

WHO: International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD-10)

ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and came into use in WHO Member States as from 1994. The classification is the latest in a series which has its origins in the 1850s. The first edition, known as the International List of Causes of Death, was adopted by the International Statistical Institute in 1893. WHO took over the responsibility for the ICD at its creation in 1948 when the Sixth Revision, which included causes of morbidity for the first time, was published. The World Health Assembly adopted in 1967 the WHO Nomenclature Regulations that stipulate use of ICD in its most current revision for mortality and morbidity statistics by all Member States.

WHO: International Health Regulations (IHR), 2nd Edition

With the support of WHO, the 194 States Parties to the International Health Regulations (IHR) have been implementing these global rules to enhance national, regional and global public health security.

Key milestones for countries include the assessment of their surveillance and response capacities by June 2009 and the development and implementation of plans of action to ensure that these core capacities are functioning by 2012.