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
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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5 November 2026
Primary health care-oriented responses for migrants, refugees and displaced populations
This eighth report in the WHO Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration (GEHM) series examines how primary health care (PHC)-oriented responses can...
18 September 2026
Health care-associated infection point prevalence survey protocol: implementation manual for limited-resource...
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) represent a significant threat to patient safety, and effective surveillance is essential for infection prevention...
25 August 2026
Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment, Malawi 2025
This report presents the findings of Malawi’s 2025 Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) assessment, WHO’s standardized qualitative analysis...
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