This document provides a summary of infection control recommendations when providing direct and non-direct care to patients with suspected or confirmed Filovirus haemorrhagic fever (HF), including Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fevers. These recommendations are interim and will be updated when additi...onal information becomes available.
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This document provides guidelines on the establisment of early surveillance actions to be carried out in countries where no case of Ebola virus disease has been reported.
An alert system should be in place at the following sites: major land border crossing with already affected countries; capital ...cities, including at airports, seaports, and health-care facilities, especially in major hospitals.
The alert system (staff trained in case definitions and able to detect signs and symptoms of disease) should report sick persons coming from country that has reported cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and possibly meeting the definition of a case under investigation
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Fiche Technique Ebola No.1
Fiche Technique Ebola no.2
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Suppl. Vol.63/3
Somali version of How Babies are made
This is a film aimed at early teens and young adults. It describes what puberty is and how babies are made using a mixture of animation and expert advice as well as from young men and women in Nairobi.
Translation thanks to Aidarus Khalif and Fouzia Ismail... and Abdirahman Dahir Aden at the Somaliland Nursing and Midwifery Association (SLNMA)
http://medicalaidfilms.org/our-films/somali-films/?v=64629805
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Please read the text online on the CDC website http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/limiting-heat-burden.html
Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force
La prévention de la transmission des virus dans le cadre des soins de santé nécessite d’appliquer des procédures et protocoles appelés plus généralement «contrôles». Ceux-ci, par ordre d’efficacité pour la lutte contre l’infection sont les suivants: contrôles administratifs, contr...ôles de l’environnement, contrôles techniques et équipement de protection individuelle (EPI).
Ce document récapitule les recommandations pour l’équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) que les agents de santé doivent porter pour dispenser des soins aux patients infectés par un filovirus (Ebola ou Marburg). Il est accompagné de spécifications techniques décrivant les équipements et précisant les normes recommandées
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