Vaccines are powerful weapons in the fight against pandemic viruses as shown by responses to both the 2009 H1N1 influenza and the COVID-19 pandemics. However, planning for accessing, allocating and ...deploying vaccines in a pandemic situation is a complex endeavour, beset with multiple challenges at all levels – local, regional and global. The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners have prepared this revised guidance document to assist countries update their national deployment and vaccination plans (NDVPs) by leveraging global learnings from past pandemic responses, including the recent COVID-19 vaccination effort. The development and testing of a NDVP would not only advance pandemic preparedness efforts but would also have benefits in terms of increasing national capabilities to manage other health emergencies which require emergency vaccination campaigns.
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Guidance on providing information and psychosocial support to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection and their relatives
Talking about COVID-19 to young children
A guide to talking about Coronavirus in a simple, clear and reassuring way.
The Big Idea of the Week delves deeper into a specific COVID-related topic. Each week, Big Idea tackles a specific area of COVID-19 and provides im...portant information, guidelines, and messages for the public.
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COVID-19 Progress Report PAHO/WHO Argentina: 24 February 2022
Epidemiología; Resumen de puntos clave de conferencias y declaraciones de interés de OPS/OMS; Variantes de interés y preocupación; ...Actualización en vacunas; OPS/OMS en redes sociales; Publicaciones relacionadas; Noticias de la Región de las Américas.
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COVID-19 Situation Update OPS/WHO Argentina: 10 February 2022
Situation report generated by the OPS/WHO representation in Argentina
New Coronavirus - Covid19 Mental Health Recommendations for the General Public (Update 4 May 2021)
El presente documento compila cronológicamente la normatividad legal-administrativa de salud, del diario oficial El Peruano y normas internas de la institución, de acuerdo al tema de COVID-19, cor...respondiente al segundo semestre 2020.
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l Plan de Participación de Partes Interesadas (en adelante PPPI) se formula en cumplimiento de las directrices y requisitos que se expresan en el Estándar Ambiental y Social 10 “Participación de las partes interesadas y divulgación de la información” del Banco Mundial (en adelante EAS 10). ...Este estándar brinda los referentes para que, en los proyectos que financia el Banco Mundial, se constituyan tres (3) tipos de mecanismos que garanticen el involucramiento de las partes interesadas en los asuntos que les conciernen y son de su interés: de participación, de divulgación de información y de atención a quejas y reclamos.
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Organization of health services at the first level of care for comprehensive health care in the framework of the national health emergency by COVID-19
Mozambique registered its first COVID-19 case on 22 March 2020 and since then numbers have steadily grown over the following three months with cases now reported in all provinces. In response, a lev...el 3 State of emergency was enacted on 1 April 2020 and has been extended until 29 July 2020, with measures targeting the prevention of COVID-19 transmissions.
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