A
ABG Arterial Blood Gas
ABS American Board of Surgery
ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
ACS America College of Surgeons
ACS Acute Coronary Syndrome
ADCC Antibody-Dependent Cell-mediated cytotoxicity
AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences
ANM Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist
AYUSH Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy
ABC Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
ACDF Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ANC Ante Natal Care
API Annual Parasite Incidence
APPLE Aids Prevention and Positive Living Programme
APRP Autologous Platelets Rich Plasma
ALA Autologous Lipo Aspiration
ALIF Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
ALAT Autologous Lipo Aspirate Therapy
ARCHI African Red Cross/Red Crescent Health Initiative
ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
ARF Acute Renal Failure
ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
ASDH Acute Subdural Hematoma
ARI Acute Respiratory Infection
ART Anti Retroviral Treatment (against HIV/AIDS)
ARV Anti Retro Viral
ATLS Advanced Trauma Life Support
AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer
AHA American Heart Association
AANS American Association of Neurological Surgeons
ASCCP American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
ASIA American Spinal Injury Association
ASSH American Society for Surgery of the Hand
AVM Arteriovenous malformations
AWB Air Way Bill
AAR Abstract Asset Register
ACASH Association of Corporation & Apex Society of Handloom
Admin Administration
A/L Amendment Letter
AMC Annual Maintenance Contract
ASO Assistant Store Officer
ATE Advertised Tender Enquiry
AWB Airway Bill
B
BARI Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation
BBT Basal Body Temperature
BCC Behaviour Change Communications
BCAA Brain Chained Amino Acids
BCG Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine against TB
BMAT Bone Marrow Aspirate Therapy
BPI Better Programming Initiative
BoD Burden of Disease
BG Bank Guarantee
B/L Bill of Landing
BS Bid Security
BIS Bureau of Indian Standards
C
CA Chartered Accountant
CAG Comptroller and Auditor General of India
CCI Competition Commission of India
CD Custom Duty
CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid
CAMC Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract
CPO Chief Procurement Officer
CPPP Central Public Procurement Portal
CPWD Central Public Works Department
CS Comparative Statement
CV Curriculum Vitae
CVC Central Vigilance Commission
CVO Chief Vigilance Officer
CBO Community Based Organizations
CVA CerebroVascular Accident
CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
CCS Country Cooperation Strategy
CDs Communicable Diseases
CHC Community Health Centre
CIFF Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
CSDH Commission on Social Determinants of Health
CBW Chemical and Biological Warfare
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in the US)
CDD Control of Diarrhoeal Disease
CFR Case-Fatality Rates
CHD Community Health Doctor
CHEs Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
CHN Community Health Nurse
CHV Community Health Volunteer
CHW Community Health Worker
CMR Crude Mortality Rate
CNS Central Nervous System
CCS Country Cooperation Strategy
CDs Communicable Diseases
CHC Community Health Centre
CIFF Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
CSDH Commission on Social Determinants of Health
CQI Customer Quality Information
CSO Central statistics office
CSF Cerebrospinal fluids
CSV Comma Separated Values
CCDS Climate Change and Development Strategy
CCK Cholecystokinin
CMC Carpometacarpal
CT Computed Tomography
CTA Computed Tomography Angiography
CPAP Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
CRH Corticotropin-releasing hormone
CHF Congestive Heart Failure
CDCDS Country Development Cooperation Strategy
CII Centre for accelerating Innovation Impact
CIP Center for Innovations and Partnership
Co2 Carbon Dioxide
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
CMS Central Medical Store
CSSC Christian Social Services Commission
E
EEG Electroencephalography
ECPs Emergency Contraceptive Pills
ECF Extracellular fluids
EmOC Emergency Obstetrical Care
ENN Emergency Nutrition Network
EOC Emergency Obstetric Care
EPI Expended Programme for Immunisation
ERU Emergency Response Units
EWS Early Warning System
ED Essential Drugs
EDL Essential Drugs List
EPI Expanded Programme on Immunisation
EMR Endoscopic Mucosal Resection
ERCP Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
ESWL Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy
ETO Ethylene oxide sterilization
ECS Electronic Clearing System
EOI Expression of Interest
ESD Engineering Service Division
EXW EX. Works
FA Financial Advisor
F&AO Finance and Account Officer
FCA Free Carrier
FDR Fixed Deposit Receipt
FDAS Free Delivery At Site
FIFO First In First Out
FOB Free On Board
FPS Foot Pound Second System of Measurement
FACT Field Assessment and Coordination Teams
FAP Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
FBC Food Basket Calculator
FDC Fixed Dose Combination
FEFO First Expiry, First Out
FFW Food for Work
FGM Female Genital Mutilation
FP Family Planning
FTE Full-time Equivalent
FBO Faith-Based Organization
FFP Fresh Frozen Plasma
FAST Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma
FDG-PET Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
FRC Functional residual capacity
G
GERD Gastroesophageal reflux diseases
GIST Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
GABA Gamma-aminobutyric acid
GNRI Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index
GnRH Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
GFR General Food Ration
GIT Gastro-Intestinal Tract
GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GFATM Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
GM Growth Monitoring
GIS Geographic Information System
GPS Global Positioning System
GB Governing Body
GCC General Conditions of Contract
GeM Government e-Marketplace
GFR General Finance Rules
GIB General Instruction to Bidders
GMP Good Manufacturing Practices
GOI Government of India
Govt. Government
GST Goods and Service Tax
H
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HLEG High-Level Expert Group
HMIS Health Management Information System
HAART Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy against HIV/AIDS
HAC Humanitarian Action in Crisis/WHO
HBV Hepatitis B Virus
HEICS Emergency Incident Command System
HIS Health Information System
HIT Health Information Team
HFA Health Facility Assessment
HMIS Health Management Information System
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HAI Healthcare-associated infections
HCF Health-care facility/facilities
HLS Humanitarian Logistics System
HPV Human Papilloma Virus
hr hour
HW Health Worker
Hb Haemoglobin
HNPCC Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer
HNS Home Nutritional Support
HLA Histocompatibility antigens
I
ICP Intra Cranial Pressure
ICF Intracellular Fluid
IHR International Health Regulations
IMR Infant Mortality Rate
IAEA International Atomic Energy Commission
IATA International Air Transport Association
ICD International Classification of Diseases
IDU Intravenous Drug Users
ICG Interagency Coordinating Group (WHO/meningitis)
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICU Intensive Care Unit
ICVA International Council of Voluntary Agencies
IDU Intravenous Drug Users
IDP Internally Displaced Person
IEC Information Education and Communication
IHFAN International Health Facility Assessment Network
INA Instant Nutritional Assessment
IMA Intermittent mandatory ventilation
IPI International Prognostic Index
ILP Isolated Limb Perfusion
IPC Infection prevention and control
IM Intramuscular
IV Intravenous
IEHK Interagency Health Kit
IGO Inter-Governmental Organisation
IHL International Humanitarian Law
IMC International Medical Corps
IMCI Integrated Management of Child Health
INGO International Non-Governmental Organisation
IPI Intermittent Presumptive Treatment (malaria)
IPT Intermittent Preventive Therapy
IRS Indoor Residual Spraying
ISO International Organisation for Standardisation
IT Information Technology
ITNs Insecticide Treated Nets
ITM Treated Mosquito Material
IUATLD International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases
IUD Intra-Uterine Device
IV Intra Venous (inj)
ICPD International Conference on Population and Development
IUD Intrauterine device
IDA International Dispensary Association
IVF In Vitro Fertilization
M
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
MRA Magnetic resonance angiography
MDG Millennium Development Goals
MoH&FW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
MMR Maternal Mortality Ratio
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MCH Maternal and Child Health
MCI Mass Casualty Incident
MCM Mass Casualty Management
MDG Millennium Development Goals
MDR Malaria Death Rate
MDR-TB Multi-drug resistant therapy
MISP Minimum Initial Service Package
MMR Mass Miniature Radiography
MMR Maternal Mortality Ratio
MoH Ministry of Health
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MSF Médicins Sans Frontières
MTCT Mother To Child Transmission
MUAC Mid-Upper-Arm-Circumference
MVA Manual vacuum aspiration
mcg microgram
MD Mean Difference
min minute
ml milliliter
MPA Maternal and Perinatal Health & Preventing Unsafe Abortion
MPH Master of Public Health
MCH Mother and Child Health
MEDS Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies
MOH Ministry of Health
MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
MHMC Midhumeral muscle circumference
MUST Malnutrition universal screening tool
MODS Multiple organ dysfunctions
MORE Multiple outcomes of raloxifene
N
NGO Non-Government Organisation
NACP National AIDS Control Programme
NCDs Noncommunicable Diseases
NGO Nongovernmental Organization
NPSP National Polio Surveillance Project
NRHM National Rural Health Mission
NEHK New Emergency Health Kit
NGHAs Non-Governmental Humanitarian Agencies
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
NS National Society
NSS National Social Service scheme
NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Units
NCC National cadre crop
NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NSAIDs Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs
NSABP National Surgical Adjuvant Breast projects
NPWT Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
O
OOP Out-of-Pocket
OGC Open Geospatial Consortium
OI Opportunistic Infection
OPV Oral Polio Vaccine
ORS Oral Rehydration Salt/Solution
ORT Oral Rehydration Therapy
OVC Orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
PPP Purchasing Power Parity
P-P-P Public-Private-Partnership
PAHO Pan American Health Organisation
PEM Protein-Energy Malnutrition
PFA Psychological First Aid
PH Public Health
PHAST Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation
PHC Primary Health Care
PHN Public Health Nurse
PLHIV People Living With HIV
PLIF Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
PMTCT Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS
PNC Post-Natal Care
PMTCT Preventing Mother-To-Child-Transmission
PSF Pharmaciens Sans Frontières
PSP Psycho-social Support Programme
PTCT Parent To Child Transmission
PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PV Per Vaginam
PBF Performance-based financing
PSI Population Services International
PPH Postpartum Hemorrhage
PHC Primary Health Care
PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride
PCA Patient-controlled analgesia
PCI Percutaneous coronary intervention
PTC Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
Q
QMP Quality Management Programme (blood)
QMT Quality Management Training (blood)
R
RNTCP Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
RHRC Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
RR Relative risk
R&R Rest and Recuperation
RRN Relief and Rehabilitation Network
RVF Rift Valley Fever
RC/RC Red Cross/ Red Crescent
RDRT Regional Disaster Response Teams
RDT Rapid Diagnostic Tests (for malaria)
RH Reproductive Health
RHA Rapid Health Assessment
RCT Randomized controlled trial
RHR Reproductive Health and Research
S
SAM Services Availability Mapping
SARA Service Availability and Readiness Assessment
SDMX Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange
SPA Service Provision Assessment
SQL Structured Query Language
SC South-South Cooperation
STI Sexually Transmitted Infections
SAR Search and Rescue
SAVE Secondary Assessment of Victim Endpoint
Sd Shigella dysenteriae
SF Supplementary Feeding
SFP Supplementary Feeding Programme
SGBV Sexual Gender Based Violence
SMART Standardised Monitoring of Relief and Transitions
SOP Standard Operational Procedure
SP Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine
START Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment
STD Sexually Transmitted Disease
STI Sexually Transmitted Infection
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities and Threat (analysis)
SRH sexual and reproductive health
SS Stainless Steel
S/S Sharp/Sharp
SSS Sugar Salt Solution
SCI Spinal Cord Injury
SSG Split Skin Graft
T
TB Tuberculosis
TALC Teaching Aids at Low Cost
TALL Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning
TB Tuberculosis
TBA Traditional Birth Attendant
TEE Transesophageal echocardiography
TDR Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
TFC Therapeutic Feeding Centre
TFP Therapeutic Feeding Programme
ThCMV Therapeutic vitamins and minerals
TLC Total Lymphocyte Count
TLIF Thoracic Lumbar Interbody Fusion
TENS Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
TH Traditional Healer
Full form of TT Tetanus Toxoid vaccine
U
UHC Universal Health Coverage
UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance/Action Framework
URP Uniform Recall Period
U5MR Under-Five Mortality Rate
UNHCR United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees
UHC Universal health coverage
UNICEF United Nation Children’s Fund
UNV United Nations Volunteer
USAID United States Agency for International Development
USCR United States Committee for Refugees
UTC Universal Time Co-ordinated
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
USAID United States Agency for International Development
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UUIDs Universally Unique Identifiers
VEN Vital, Essential, Non-essential
VPN Virtual Private Network
WFH Weight-For-Height
WFP World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organisation
WHO/AFRO World Health Organization Africa Regional Office
WHO/EHA WHO, Emergency, and Humanitarian Action
WMA World Medical Association
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction
WMMR Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report
WSM World Swim for Malaria
WTO World Trade Organisation
XDR-TB Extensive drug-resistant therapy