The WHO Essential Medicine List AWaRe Antibiotic Book - Now Available!
▶️The WHO EML AWaRe Antibiotic book has now been published on the WHO website!
The AWaRe book provides concise, evidence-based guidance on how to use the antibiotics included on WHO’s Model Lists of Essential Medicines and is an important step towards improving clinical care, the optimal use of antibiotics in humans and the development of AMR policy.
In addition to the book, there is a mobile app and a version of the book accompanied by summary infographics for each infection for both adults and children that provide a quick-reference guide for health care workers at the point of care.
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Priority setting for the next pandemic - follow up survey!
▶️The Maternal, neonatal and child health working group is a member of the COVID-19 clinical coalition; a global research coalition driven by the needs of low-resource settings. Back in 2020, their members undertook a survey to better understand the key MNCH priorities during the pandemic. This survey is being repeated to assess whether priorities have changed as well as investigating the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy. Thanks for considering taking this survey.
Complete survey
Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Pregnant and Peripartum People: A FIELD GUIDE
▶️ Written and developed by the Sentinel Project for Pediatric
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, this first edition Field Guide can be seen as constituting a set of tools derived by clinical consensus and based on real-world practice with people who are pregnant and their neonates.
Field Guide
Explore our all-new virtual case study: "Dengue fever in an adolescent girl".
▶️Welcome to this virtual patient case study. In this interactive activity, you will explore an evolving patient case and be presented with several questions about the optimal treatment choice. Immediate feedback is provide based on your answer choice. Head over to WSPID's e-learning portal!
Can you solve the case?
Clinical Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Pregnancy Outcomes in Africa
We're pleased to share AFREHealth's publications on COVID-19 and Pregnancy in 6 African Countries and accompanying commentary that have just been e-published (ahead of print) under open access at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal website.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection and Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 6-Country Retrospective Cohort Analysis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Prioritizing Pregnant Women for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination in African Countries | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
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Now available & Open Access! The PIDJ Supplement - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control in Low-and Middle-income Countries
WSPID is excited to announce that this Open Access supplement is now available on the PIDJ website. The supplement is the result of a successful global Peds ID collaboration, which started during a meeting at WSPID2019 in Manila. Many thanks to the supplement leads Mark Cotton, Mike Sharland, Susan Coffin and Penelope Bryant for their hard work and perseverance. WSPID is also extremely grateful to the supplement leads, Angela Dramowski and their institutions for their financial contribution enabling the supplement to be Open Access.
Read the supplement here
