Health Care Readiness
The Health Care Readiness (HCR) Unit’s work begins with infection prevention, optimising clinical care and health operations and advancing clinical research and innovation in order to help bring life-saving interventions to the last mile.
Technical areas
Research into optimizing respiratory support for critically ill patients
The delivery of patient centred, individualized critical care to reduce the case fatality of EVD through key interventions.
Technical guidance for clinical management of COVID-19 patients, including optimized supportive care interventions and therapeutics
Publications, guidelines
Global access to oxygen and options to deliver respiratory support are limited, and patient needs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unmet....
1 March 2024
Infection prevention and control measures when caring for patients with suspected or confirmed respiratory...
This operational guide addresses important infection prevention and control (IPC) measures that should be implemented during a diphtheria outbreak and...
Related topics
Meeting reports
12 March 2024
Filovirus disease clinical management working group
The meeting provided the opportunity to host a group of global experts in filovirus disease (FVD) management, outbreak response and clinical and operational...