{"tags": [{"id": 11, "search": null, "name": "Cancer", "code": ""}, {"id": 21, "search": null, "name": "Children", "code": ""}], "categories": [{"hasContent": true, "id": 6, "search": null, "name": "Blindness and eye diseases", "code": "120"}, {"hasContent": true, "id": 7, "search": null, "name": "Cancer and its Control", "code": "130"}], "versions": [{"publisher": {"id": 70, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Health", "contact": ""}, "authors": [{"id": 70, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Health", "contact": ""}], "collaborators": [{"id": 71, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Health", "contact": ""}], "fileUrl": "media/RETINOBLASTOMA-Best-Practice-Guidelines-2019.pdf", "id": 367, "search": null, "name": "Retinoblastoma Best Practice Guidelines 2019", "description": "The document outlines cardinal characteristics of the disease and best approach to the management at different levels of care. 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The guideline is largely adapted from the WHOs \u201cRecommendation for care of the preterm or low birth weight infants 2022\u201d and a Global position paper on Kangaroo Mother Care \u201cA transformative innovation in health care \u201c.\r\n\r\n", "id": 523, "categories": [27], "name": "Kangaroo mother care clinical implementation guideline 2023"}, {"summary": "The IMNCI strategy incorporates standard case management guidelines meant to improve skills of health care workers, as well as approaches for improving family and community health practices that ensure child survival, growth and development. \r\n\r\nIMNCI calls for better integration of child health programming across different ministries and sectors at the national and county level. 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The framework also aims to strengthen the health system, \r\nbuilding upon the facility-level Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI).", "id": 490, "categories": [27], "name": "Kenya Integrated Community Case Management Implementation Framework and Plan of Action 2022 - 2027\r\n"}, {"summary": "This Comprehensive Newborn Care Protocols provide guidance on newborn care to clinicians and nurses. These protocols in \r\nthis handbook are underpinned on the \u2018Newborn Care Quality Statements\u2019 outlined in this handbook.\r\nThe development of this handbook was inspired by the NEST360 clinical modules (https://nest360.org/education/). This \r\nhandbook is an advancement of and complimentary to the Basic Pediatric Protocols and Emergency Triage Assessment & \r\nTreatment, plus Admission care of the critically ill child (ETAT+) 2016 guidelines. It integrates use of technologies with newborn \r\nclinical pathways . The protocols are evidence-based and were adapted from latest WHO guidance, clinical guidelines from \r\nother institutions and emerging scientific evidence.", "id": 486, "categories": [27], "name": "Comprehensive Newborn Care Protocols"}, {"summary": "The manual is designed for a short intensive training. The duration of training will be dependent on the cohort of CHVs being trained and could range from three to seven days. At the end of the training, the CHV is expected to have gained the knowledge and skills to enable them to assess and classify the health condition and recommend appropriate action of either treatment or referral of the sick child to the nearest health facility. ", "id": 488, "categories": [27], "name": "Integrated Community Case Management for Sick Children Under 5 Years - Participant\u2019s Manual"}, {"summary": "The manual is designed for a short intensive training. 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The guidelines target management of the seriously ill newborn or child in the first 24 - 48 hours of arrival at a health facility", "id": 485, "categories": [27], "name": "BASIC PAEDIATRIC PROTOCOLS"}, {"summary": "This is the National Cancer Taskforce Report of July 2022.", "id": 458, "categories": [7, 37], "name": "National Cancer Taskforce Report - July 2022"}, {"summary": "Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) ; Facilitator Manual.", "id": 273, "categories": [7], "name": "Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening, Early Detection, Management and Support (Facilitator Manual)"}, {"summary": "The purpose of these guidelines is to standardize and optimize cancer diagnosis for priority cancers through proper handling, processing of specimens and referrals. 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It is in commemoration of the birthday of Ignacio Ponseti, the pioneer of the Ponseti technique of clubfoot treatment.", "id": 299, "categories": [27], "name": "CCK World Clubfoot Day 2021 Concept"}, {"summary": "The purpose of these guidelines is to standardize and optimize cancer diagnosis for priority cancers through proper handling, processing of specimens and referrals.", "id": 363, "categories": [7, 37], "name": "National Cancer Specimen Handling Guidelines - December 2020"}, {"summary": "Breastfeeding provides children with the healthiest start to life. 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It contains general information on best practices of managing immunization services and specific information for the handling of PCV10.", "id": 75, "categories": [25], "name": "Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV10) in Kenya"}, {"summary": "This is a guideline that is for all health workers that work in maternal and child health services. This job aid gives detailed information on nutrition, growth monitoring and promotion, breastfeeding, Vitamin A Supplementation, management of the sick child, preventive activities and messages.", "id": 143, "categories": [27], "name": "Malezi Bora: Afya ya Leo ni Uzima Kesho- Job Aids"}, {"summary": "This guideline outlines the cardinal characteristics of Retinoblastoma and also the best approach for its management at different levels of care. Through these best practices, the health care system should be able to identify the patients with retinoblastoma in time and appropriately manage them, thereby raising the survival rate for the disease. All healthcare workers should familiarize themselves with these guidelines.", "id": 4, "categories": [6, 7], "name": "Retinoblastoma Best Practice Guidelines"}, {"summary": "This pocket book is mainly aimed at doctors, clinical officers, nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of sick newborns and young children. ", "id": 74, "categories": [27], "name": "Basic Paediatric  Protocols"}, {"summary": "These Guidelines are designed to contribute to the reduction of the incidence and mortality from cancer and improve the quality of life of cancer patients by adopting best practice. Application of the guidelines is expected to improve early detection, timely diagnosis, harmonize and standardize treatment of cancer. The Guidelines should be utilized by all health care professionals at the four levels of care in both public and private sectors. In addition, they should be utilized by the pre-service training institutions.\r\nFurther, the Guidelines will facilitate the development of the lists of essential medicines, non pharmaceuticals and equipment for cancer treatment.", "id": 9, "categories": [7, 10], "name": "National Guidelines For Cancer Management Kenya"}, {"summary": "HP practice when implemented appropriately and as per the required standards and expected best practiced levels will ensure that health inequity is reduced and the well being of the population in Kenya is enhanced and maintained at all times. This guidelines and standards therefore outline the minimum standards at which HP practice and training should be conducted. In this way, streamline health promotion practice in our health care system and enable effective and efficient health promotion implementation in the Health and Non-Health sectors.", "id": 15, "categories": [23], "name": "Operational Guidelines and Standards for Health Promotion(HP)"}, {"summary": "An Act of Parliament to provide for the prevention, treatment and control of cancer and for connected purposes", "id": 235, "categories": [7, 22], "name": "Cancer Prevention and Control Act"}, {"summary": "These guidelines are intended to contribute to making quality services available in the country by guiding health care providers at all levels of health care to provide prevention and management services of three most common cancers of the reproductive organs.", "id": 30, "categories": [7], "name": "National Guidelines for prevention and management of cervical, breast and prostrate cancers"}, {"summary": "The Guidelines cover the following: justifying the need for specific management of HIV positive women; care before, during and after pregnancy; use of antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy; postnatal care; family planning; early infant diagnosis; feeding, care and follow up of HIV-infected infants; and monitoring and evaluation. Additional information on WHO staging, contraceptive options for PLHIVs and a summary of ARV use in PMTCT is given in the appendices.", "id": 77, "categories": [4, 27], "name": "Guidelines for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) OF HIV/AIDS in Kenya"}, {"summary": "This plan signifies the government\u2019s commitment to maternal and child health and to achieving MDGs 4, 5 and 6. The Framework brings together a critical analysis of the current status of the program and the strategic direction towards elimination of MTCT by 2015.\r\n\r\n\r\n", "id": 202, "categories": [4, 27], "name": "Towards the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission(eMTCT) of HIV and Keeping Mothers Alive- Strategic Framework"}, {"summary": "The strategy outlines comprehensive interventions to be undertaken by the government and other partners to enhance existing structures and pull together additional resources to tackle the challenges posed by cancer thus reducing the incidence of cancer and improving the quality of life of those who develop cancer in Kenya. \r\n\r\nAlso aims to build strong cancer prevention and control capacities both in public and private sectors through investment in cancer awareness, human resource, equipments, surveillance and research.", "id": 147, "categories": [7], "name": "Kenya National Cancer Control Strategy"}, {"summary": "A document  available and accessible by all primary health workers especially those working in the maternal and child health programmes, who are among the first to make contact with the child in this way preventing blindness in children.", "id": 72, "categories": [6], "name": "Preventing Blindness in Children"}, {"summary": "These guidelines target health managers, social workers, special education teachers and rehabilitation workers who care for children with disabilities and special needs. These guidelines are useful for students, lecturers in the health sector and teachers in learning and training institutions.", "id": 11, "categories": [19], "name": "National Guidelines for Identification and Referral of Children with Disabilities and Special Needs"}, {"summary": "The National Guideline for Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition was developed as a to assist health workers in the assessment and appropriate management with services and/or counselling for the treatment of acute malnutrition both Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) and Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Although the guidelines will focus on children under five years, some information specific to older children, adolescents and adults is also included. ", "id": 24, "categories": [12], "name": "National Guideline for Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition"}, {"summary": "This is a plan towards the elimination of blinding Trachoma in Kenya by the year 2015", "id": 56, "categories": [6], "name": "Kenya National Plan for Elimination of Trachoma (KNPET)"}, {"summary": "These guidelines provide the required standards on establishment, registration, management and supervision of ECD services. The guidelines  will ensure effective implementation of ECD programmes", "id": 22, "categories": [23, 27], "name": "Early Childhood Development(ECD) Service Standard Guidelines for Kenya 2006"}, {"summary": "The guidelines are intended for use by multi-disciplinary teams of Health Care Workers (HCWs) providing care for HIV/AIDS patients. With the Publication of this guidelines the Ministry of Health hopes to ensure the provision of quality care to the HIV-infected through building the capacity of the providers by equipping them with current and simplified knowledge on the management of HIV infection including the rational use of antiretroviral drugs.", "id": 39, "categories": [4], "name": "Guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in Kenya 3rd Edition 2005"}, {"summary": "Plan developed by the Ministry of Health, through the Division of Family Health together with the National Council for Population and Development and NGOs, they provide guidelines for maximizing access to achieve the goal of 43% contraceptive prevalence rate by 2000.", "id": 54, "categories": [18], "name": "The National Implementation Plan Kenya Family Planning Program"}], "lastUpdated": "", "id": 395, "search": null, "name": "Retinoblastoma Best Practice Guidelines 2019", "summary": "The Kenya National Retinoblastoma Strategy was established in 2008 with aim of improving the survival of children with retinoblastoma in Kenya.", "description": "The document outlines cardinal characteristics of the disease and best approach to the management at different levels of care. The management herein referred to includes timely referral and communication within the health system. It stipulates clearly what\r\nshould be done in different circumstances and is recommended for use at all levels of care.", "guidelineType": "CLINICAL", "datePublished": "2019-01-02"}