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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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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Preliminary Key Findings from Interviews in Accra on the Ebola Response
WiderNet@UNC and the WiderNet Project have established the Ebola Emergency Response Library initiative to create a pocket library for people, especially local health care workers in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, responding to the Ebola crisis in Africa.
They are collecting high-quality digit...al resources for everyone from physicians and researchers to families, teachers, media outlets, social workers, and school children.
While this collection is available on the World Wide Web for those who have Internet access, the resources can be distributed on micro chips for use in smartphones, tablets, and laptops in places that lack internet access. The chips can be freely copied so that the information spreads faster than the disease.
The Internet version of the Ebola Pocket Library can be viewed at:
http://www.widernet.org/portals/ebola
The downloadable version can be found here:
Download the Ebola Pocket Library
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Ebola online Training cours in French
It is important for all people in regions threatened by Ebola to understand basic issues related to the disease. This module offers non-professionals a useful overview of Ebola, including how people contract Ebola, who is at highest risk and the signs and sympt...oms of the illness. The module describes what Ebola does to the human body and tells you what you should do if you think you or a friend or family member has Ebola. Further, the module looks at how the illness is diagnosed, how it is treated and how to protect yourself against it.
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A ‘checklist’, intended for Christian church leaders in West Africa, with relevant bible passages and advice regarding church practices and the education and support of communities.
What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola i...n Sierra Leone?
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Desk Review and Recommendations for Private Sector Engagement
A tutorial for healthcare professionals
The preparedness strengthening team deployed to Ghana focused on specific objectives in order to assist the country in becoming as operationally prepared as possible to detect, investigate and report potential EVD cases effectively and safely and to mount an effective response to prevent a larger o...utbreak. To accomplish this goal, the team conducted “scoping” activities, stakeholder meetings, site visits and a “table-top” simulation exercise to determine what systems were in place and what aspects of preparedness could be strengthened.
It is organized in 10 components of the WHO consolidated checklist for EVD preparedness: 1) planning and coordination; 2) epidemiological and laboratory surveillance; 3) rapid response teams; 4) contact tracing; 5) points of entry; 6) laboratory; 7) case management; 8) infection prevention and control; 9) social mobilization and risk communication; 10) budget.
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The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir...e support from partners. It lists 10 key components and tasks for both countries and the international community that should be completed within 30, 60 and 90 days from the date of issue of the list, with minimal requirements for equipment, material and human resources.
The components include: overall coordination; rapid response teams; public awareness and community engagement; infection prevention and control; epidemiological and laboratory surveillance; contact tracing; points of entry; laboratory; social mobilization and risk communication; budget.
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