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Health care waste management in immunisation programs guidance document
05.08.2020
GUIDANCE FOR PROPOSAL PLANNING
Sound management of pharmaceutical waste and waste water (Policy brief)
21.07.2020
The policy brief is intended as a tool to guide establishing regulatory frameworks to ensure the sound management of pharmaceutical solid and liquid waste. The guidance document is for use by WHO staff, policy makers and inspectors in Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Environment, pharmaceutical manufacturers and their associations, local municipalities and consumer organizations.
Health care waste management manual (4th edition)
27.04.2020
Updated guidelines from the Philippines.
Health care waste management: Coronavirus update
22.04.2020
Advice is regularly updated based on the latest knowledge. Please contact global@hcwh.org for the most up to date information.
WASH in HCF & COVID-19 Webinar series: Session 2 – Health care waste management
14.04.2020
Slides from a webinar series on WASH in HCF and COVID-19 in April 2020.
L’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène dans les établissements de santé: Mesures pratiques pour instaurer l’accès universel à des soins de qualité
31.10.2019
La version française du document "Water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities: Practical Steps for Universal Access to Quality Care".
Overview of technologies for the treatment of infectious and sharp waste from health care facilities
27.09.2019
The purpose of this document is two-fold. The first is to provide criteria for selecting technologies to facilitate decision making for improved health care waste management in health care facilities. The second is to provide an overview of specific health care waste technologies for the treatment of solid infectious and sharp waste for health care facility administrators and planners, WASH and infection prevention control staff, national planners, donors
and partners. For each technology, details on its operation, effects on the environment and health, requirements for installation, capacities for treating waste, examples of consumables and advantages and disadvantages are described.