Essential medicines for children

Priority medicines for mothers and children: treatment guidelines

WHO guidelines used in the development of the priority medicines list.

Mothers

Postpartum haemorrhage

Eclampsia and pre-eclampsia

Maternal sepsis

Sexually transmitted infections

Prevention of preterm birth

Malaria

HIV/AIDS

Children

Pneumonia

Diarrhoea

WHO recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children: integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI)

Malaria

Neonatal sepsis

HIV/AIDS

Palliative care and pain

WHO guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses (in press)

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