{"id":649929,"date":"2026-05-04T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:52:39","slug":"toolkit-for-frontline-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649929\/","title":{"rendered":"toolkit for frontline healthcare workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Overview <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The global burden of acute bacterial meningitis remains high, particularly in low- and middle-income countries and resource-limited settings. Following the publication of the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789240108042\" target=\"_blank\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" data-sf-marked=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">guidelines on meningitis diagnosis, treatment and care<\/a>, the World Health Organization has developed a toolkit to translate evidence-based recommendations into practical implementation guidance for use at the point of care.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Designed as a suite of job aids on acute bacterial meningitis, this document serves as a resource for frontline healthcare professionals globally, including in settings where the risk of outbreaks and excess mortality is highest. With a primary focus on acute bacterial meningitis in children aged over 1 month, adolescents and adults, the toolkit provides clinical guidance on the causative pathogens, clinical manifestations, diagnostic investigations, antibiotic therapy, adjunctive treatment, supportive care, post-exposure antibiotic prophylaxis, and infection prevention and control in healthcare settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview The global burden of acute bacterial meningitis remains high, particularly in low- and middle-income countries and resource-limited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500,65212],"class_list":["post-649929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-publicacoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}