{"id":24373,"date":"2025-08-26T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24373\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:34:08","slug":"who-guidelines-on-meningitis-diagnosis-treatment-and-care-executive-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24373\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO guidelines on meningitis diagnosis, treatment and care: executive summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Overview <\/p>\n<p>In line with the Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global&#13;<br \/>\nroad map, the WHO guidelines on meningitis diagnosis, treatment and care&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Summary provides a summary of the evidence-based recommendations for&#13;<br \/>\nthe clinical management of children and adults with community-acquired&#13;<br \/>\nmeningitis, including acute and long-term care. Meningitis poses a significant&#13;<br \/>\npublic health threat, despite successful efforts to control the disease&#13;<br \/>\nglobally. The burden of morbidity and mortality from meningitis remains high, particularly&#13;<br \/>\nin low- and middle-income countries and in settings experiencing large-scale,&#13;<br \/>\ndisruptive epidemics. Approximately one in five individuals affected by&#13;<br \/>\nbacterial meningitis incurs long-term complications, which may result in&#13;<br \/>\ndisability and have a profound impact on quality of life. The guidelines are&#13;<br \/>\nprimarily intended for health-care professionals working in first- or&#13;<br \/>\nsecond-level health-care facilities, including emergency, inpatient and&#13;<br \/>\noutpatient services. They are also directed at policy-makers, health-care&#13;<br \/>\nplanners and programme managers, academic institutions, non-governmental and&#13;<br \/>\ncivil society organizations to inform capacity-building, teaching and research&#13;<br \/>\nagendas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview In line with the Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global&#13; road map, the WHO guidelines on meningitis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17,14498],"class_list":{"0":"post-24373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-publicacoes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}