Essential Childbirth Care Course (ECBC). Module 1


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The purpose of the Toolkit is to transform midwifery education through this first global, interprofessional, innovative, evidence-based Midwifery Education Toolkit. Thisis bringing togetherinto one Toolkit the updated education materials for maternal, newborn, sexual, reproductive and mental health for life-long learning in compassionate midwifery care, including during pandemics and for use in fragile and humanitarian settings. In contrast to more traditional education materials, the Toolkit is uniquely focused on a midwifery model of care, putting women, newborns and their families at the centre. It also aims to support midwifery care providers to prevent unnecessary interventions, yet ensure lifesaving actions, enabling health professionals to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.







Hand Hygiene for All Initiative


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WHO global water, sanitation and hygiene


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This report summarizes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) during 2022. It describes WHO’s continued delivery of essential WASH programming as elaborated in its 2018–2025 strategy. This includes publication and dissemination of its work monitoring access to WASH and WASH systems through the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) and the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS), continued development and implementation of its norms on drinking-water and sanitation, and overall advocacy including on hand hygiene. All of WHO’s WASH work was augmented through the strength of its partnerships.







WHO implementation handbook for national action plans on antimicrobial resistance


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In 2015 the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance calling on countries to develop and implement national action plans on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). For most countries, the greatest challenge is not developing a national action plan; rather, it is the implementation of the plan based on evidence-based prioritization of activities, systematic monitoring of progress, and ensuring sustainability of efforts. The purpose of this publication is to to provide a practical, stepwise approach to the implementation of the national action plan on AMR within the human health sector; and to provide a process and collation of existing WHO tools to prioritize, cost, implement, monitor and evaluate national action plan activities. The target audience of the publication are national/subnational stakeholders working on AMR within the human health sector. This includes national health authorities, national multisectoral coordination groups, senior technical experts and policymakers involved in implementing AMR activities at all levels of the health system, and implementation partners to accelerate sustainable implementation and monitoring and evaluation of national action plans on AMR.