This page enables users to be directly linked to the technical Q&A platform in order to ask questions to Ebola Specialists in real-time. It also aims at providing up-to-date WASH guidelines, manuals and news in evolving Ebola response. Users can access the platform by clicking the link below or dire...ctly ask a question using the ASK button on the right-hand side on the website http://washcluster.net/wash-in-ebola/
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NLM Launches Emergency Access Initiative, Granting Free Access to Books and Journals for Healthcare Professionals Fighting Ebola Outbreak. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the Ebola public healt...h emergency in West Africa.
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The current outbreak of Ebola in west Africa constitutes the largest and most complex to date. Declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO, the outbreak of a disease with no known treatment or vaccination is proving difficult to contain given the already fragile and under res...ourced health systems in the affected areas.
The Lancet wishes to assist health workers and researchers working under difficult and dangerous conditions to bring this outbreak to a close. This Ebola hub contains all related resources from The Lancet family of journals offered with free access to support their vital work. Find interesting articles on the website
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Visit the Ebola Outbreak page on NEJM.org for a collection of articles and other resources, including powerful, personal essays with first-hand reporting from caregivers in the field, an interactive graphic with information on past and present Ebola outbreaks, and an audio interview with NIAID Direc...tor Dr. Anthony Fauci about the current epidemic and the promise of candidate vaccines and therapies. The page also offers clinical reports and management guidelines, and will be updated as more information on this world health crisis becomes available. FREE!
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The publisher agreed to open UptoDate and the full content of the Ebola section is now freely available here
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Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made this collection of ...research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public.
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The Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated in support of medical efforts related to the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. The Emergency Access Initiative is a col-
laborative partnership between the U.S. National Library of Medicine and participating publishers to provide free access to ...full text articles from over 650 biomedical serial Titles and over 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. The free access period is now to December 12, 2014
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Anthropology has an important role to play in containing the current Ebola outbreak and the new Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) offers an anthropological perspective on the issue. The site is available here:
The UMN’s Center for Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) has developed an excellent portal, which links to the most important sources of information. Many journals and newspapers have also created their own resource lists, including The Lancet, The New York Times, and Science
On 23 March 2014 WHO’s African Regional Office reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea. Since then cases have been reported in 5 additional West African countries. This interactive timeline links to key events, stories and further reading. Go to the website http://www.who.int/feature...s/ebola/storymap/en/
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The BMJ has made all of its articles referring to the Ebola outbreak free to access.
The content includes latest guidance for healthcare workers, which 'will continue to update healthcare workers, outside of west Africa, with the latest guidance from the UK's Health Protection Agency and the US Cen...ter for Disease Control'
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This two-week free course looks at the science behind the Ebola outbreak, to understand why it has occurred on this scale and how it can be controlled
- See more at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/freeonlinecourses/ebola/index.html#sthash.77ztaO8A.dpuf
Start: 19 January 2015
Duration: 2 weeks,6 hou...rs per week
Email inquiries: sutdy@lshtm.ac.uk
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The WASH in Ebola DROPBOX (click to access on hte website https://www.dropbox.com/sh/po2i7g09grfb94d/AADRA_CE5HNSEP1vBxgWOnJ3a?n=124754289) supports operational agencies responding to Ebola providing all available technical guidelines, manuals, coordination and training related information. The DROP...BOX continues to be updated on regular basis, if you have any relevant documents to share, please send them to washinebola@gmail.com.
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Free information about the Ebola virus and how best to treat it, is available from BMJ Best Practice [https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1210], the clinical support tool from BMJ, for clinicians working on the frontline in affected rural and urban regions of DR Congo. The information has bee...n reviewed and aligned with WHO guidance.
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This is an initiative in which it is hoped the development community can start to ask itself deep and serious questions about how the current development model has contributed to shaping the magnitude of today’s crisis – and, importantly, point to what needs to change to realise a more resilient... global future.
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Find out what money, health care workers and other support has been pledged--and delivered--for the Ebola crisis by countries and private donors so far.