Rethinking WHO Guidance

Rethinking WHO guidance: review of evidence for misoprostol use in the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage.

This article describes and critically appraises clinical trials assessing misoprostol effectiveness in preventing primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) in home and community settings in low- and middle-income countries. Of 172 identified studies of misoprostol use in labour only six fulfilled the inclusion criteria. All trials used 600 μg misoprostol in the intervention arm; three assessed misop...

Rethinking White Supremacy: who counts in ‘WhiteWorld’

The article addresses the nature of power relations that sustain and disguise white racial hegemony in contemporary ‘Western’ society. Following the insights offered by critical race theory (CRT), white supremacy is conceived as a comprehensive condition whereby the interests and perceptions of white subjects are continually placed centre stage and assumed as ‘normal’. These processes are analy...

Health and Thermal Comfort: From WHO guidance to housing strategies

Commentary: Operational Guidance in the 2013 WHO consolidated antiretroviral guidelines.

The new guidelines promote initiating ARVs with a CD4þ T-cell threshold of 500 cells/ml or less for adults, adolescents, and older children [1]. These guidelines further recommend ARVs, regardless of CD4þ T-cell count, for patients with active tuberculosis (TB), pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children younger than 5 years of age [1]. This is a call for action to countries to further scal...

Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance

186 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2005 The final 2 chapters cover a myriad of applications used in clinical microbiology and the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Even though presented as an overview, the >100 references in chapter 11 illustrate how vast and varied the application of real-time PCR, and the technological advances to support its use, hav...