Communicable diseases among children
Globally, infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and sepsis remain the leading causes of death for children 1 month to 9 years of age. Access to basic lifesaving interventions such as adequate nutrition, vaccinations, and treatment for common childhood diseases can save many young lives.
The CHD unit works with departments and units that are directly responsible for communicable conditions such as dengue, helminthic infections, HIV/AIDS, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and tuberculosis to make available guidelines and practical tools that include, or have an exclusive focus on, children. Furthermore, CHD works on integration of assessment, classification and treatment of communicable diseases in health service delivery, through the integrated management of childhood illness strategy and its tools that are regularly reviewed and updated in accordance with new guidelines.
Latest disease specific guidelines
Paediatric research and development landscape for neglected tropical diseases: Report on 1999–2022 period
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse set of 21 diseases and disease groups that mainly affect resource-poor populations in tropical and subtropical...
Paediatric drug optimization for neglected tropical diseases: meeting report, September 2023
Paediatric drug optimization (PADO) exercises aim to identify key priority products and their preferred product characteristics for research and development....
Virtual workshop on postnatal prophylaxis to reach elimination of HIV vertical transmission: optimizing...
Despite decades of progress in reducing the rates of vertical transmission, children continue to acquire HIV. Options for more effective regimens to ...
WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 5
The WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents is the practical implementation...
Transitioning to the 2021 optimal formulary for antiretroviral drugs for children: implementation considerations
Antiretroviral treatment optimization is a key pillar in the AIDS Free agenda to reach the goal of ensuring 95% of all infants and children have access...
Institutionalizing integrated community case management (iCCM) to end preventable child deaths
With the aim of institutionalizing integrated community case management (iCCM) in the context of primary health care (PHC) and comprehensive child health...
Nurturing care for children affected by HIV
Over the last three decades, scientific findings from a range of disciplines have converged. They prove that in the early years, we lay down critical elements...
This policy brief is for country-level programme managers, technical advisers and procurement bodies involved in the process of procuring, introducing...
The major causes of morbidity and mortality among children living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are pneumonia (including Pneumocystis pneumonia), tuberculosis...
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