Browsing by Subject "World Health Organization"

Double Standards in Global Health: Medicine, Human Rights Law and Multidrug-Resistant TB Treatment Policy

Admay, CA; Thomas Nicholson, TRN; Aaron Shakow, AS; Salmaan Keshavjee, KS

Evaluation of in-hospital management for febrile illness in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines for the treatment of malaria.

Moon, Andrew M; Biggs, Holly M; Rubach, Matthew P; Crump, John A; Maro, Venace P; Saganda, Wilbrod; Reddy, Elizabeth A (PLoS One, 2014)

OBJECTIVE: In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) published updated guidelines emphasizing and expanding recommendations for a parasitological confirmation of malaria before treating with antimalarials. This study ...

Systematic review of the performance of HIV viral load technologies on plasma samples.

Sollis, Kimberly A; Smit, Pieter W; Fiscus, Susan; Ford, Nathan; Vitoria, Marco; Essajee, Shaffiq; Barnett, David; ... (15 authors) (PLoS One, 2014)

BACKGROUND: Viral load (VL) monitoring is the standard of care in developing country settings for detecting HIV treatment failure. Since 2010 the World Health Organization has recommended a phase-in approach to VL monitoring ...

The World Health Organization's Perceptions of Traditional Medicine

Arkfeld, Chaele (2011-12)

I investigate how the World Health Organization (WHO) perceives traditional medicine. The WHO has issued publications related to traditional medicine for decades, acknowledging and commenting on traditional medicine as a ...