Infection prevention and control
Located within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) department, the IPC Unit provides technical leadership and coordination of the infection prevention and control work at WHO headquarters.
Key areas of work
Networks and collaborative work
Highlights
Global IPC progress tracker
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WHO GAPMF practical guide
A WHO practical guide to provide a practical, stepwise approach to the development and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) for IPC, aligned with the WHO GAPMF. The guide includes inspirational country stories and directs the users towards tools and resources to help countries to prioritize, cost, implement, monitor and evaluate their national action plan activities.
The practical guide provides a stepwise approach to the development and implementation of an infection prevention and control national action plan.
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Launch event - 23 June 2025
Key global policy, strategy and planning resources for IPC
Global action plan and monitoring framework for IPC (2024-2030)
This action plan was approved at the 77th WHA in 2024. It provides clear actions, indicators, and targets to support Member States in improving national- and facility-level IPC actions
News and events
Country stories
All →To help inspire your IPC implementation journey, WHO is and has been collecting country stories from around the world to showcase exemplars of IPC implementation as they relate to the WHO core components.
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Resources
Latest publications
All →Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Education and training
13 December 2016
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Overview
The aim of this technical series is to provide a compendium of information on key issues that can impact safety in the provision of primary health care. It does not propose a “one-size-fits-all” approach, as primary care is organized in different ways across countries and also often in different ways within a given country.
There can be a mix of larger primary care or group services with shared resources and small services with few staff and resources. Some countries have primary care services operating within strong national support systems, while in other countries it consists mainly of independent private practices that are not linked
WHO Team
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
33
Reference numbers
ISBN: 9789241511605
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