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Mental health and psychosocial support aspects of the COVID-19 response
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World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Western Pacific (2020) C_WHO

Across the Western Pacific Region COVID-19 is placing enormous strain on health and economic systems apart from direct threats to personal health safety and livelihood the pandemic also has significant implications on mental health and psychosocial well being adversity is an established risk factor ... more

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Infant and young child feeding recommendations when COVID-19 is suspected or confirmed

Save the Children; UNICEF; USAID (2020) C_UNICEF

Recommended practices booklet (April 2020) The set includes 10 Counselling Cards and a Recommended Practices Booklet. Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling in the context of COVID-19 remains a critical nutrition intervention for the protection and support of pregnant women, caregivers, ... more

Infection prevention during transfer and transport of patients with suspected COVID-19 requiring hospital care

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Patients with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can infect others at any time, including during transfer and transport. COVID-19 is a new infectious disease that requires contact and droplet precautions; lapses in infection prevention and control (IPC) can easily happen at vulnerable mom... more

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Social media cards: Older population and COVID-19

Pan American Health Organization PAHO, World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This series of social media cards shares information on how to support older populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recommendations for laboratory diagnosis of TB during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pan American Health Organization PAHO, World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Given the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are advised to continue adopting the TB diagnostic algorithms recommended by PAHO / WHO. Despite the differences in the modes of transmission of TB and COVID-19, certain personal protection measures are relevant for both diseases. Rout... more

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Sterilization of disposable face masks by means of standardized dry and steam sterilization processes; an alternative in the fight against mask shortages due to COVID-19.

van Straten, B.; de Man P, van den Dobbelsteen J, et al. (2020) CC

J Hosp Infect. 2020 Apr 8. pii: S0195-6701(20)30176-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.04.001. [Epub ahead of print]

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Guidance for the prevention of COVID-19 infections among high-risk individuals in camps and camp-like settings

Caroline Favas London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2020) C2

This document provides guidance on the implementation of the shielding approach in camps and camp-like settings for refugees and internally displaced persons. It is intended for the displaced community itself, humanitarian actors and camp coordination / management authorit... more

Guidance for the prevention of COVID-19 infections among high-risk individuals in urban settings

Caroline Favas London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2020) C2

This document provides guidance on the implementation of the shielding approach in urban areas in LICs and crisis-affected regions. It is intended for the community itself, national and local governance institutions, and humanitarian and development actors operating in the country.

Comprehensive Hospital Preparedness Checklist for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2020) C_CDC

The following checklist can help hospitals assess and improve their preparedness for responding to a community-wide outbreak of COVID-19. Each hospital will need to adapt this checklist to meet its unique needs and circumstances. This checklist should be used as one of several tools for evaluating c... more

WHO interim guidance note: health system response to COVID-19 in the context of internally displaced persons, refugees, migrants and returnees in the Eastern Mediterranean Region : 7 April 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, migrants and returnees constitute a sizeable population in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. There were 12 million refugees (half are Palestinians) and 13 million IDPs in the Region as of 2018. These populations are often vul... more

Eastern Europe and Central Asia Confronted with COVID-19: Responses and Responsibilities

Amnesty International (2020) C2

Governments in Eastern European and Central Asian countries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with repressive and abusive measures which fall far short of their human rights obligations, Amnesty International said today. The organization has released a new briefing Eastern Europe and Central A... more

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UNFPA Global Technical Brief - Implications of COVID-19 for Older Persons: Responding to the Pandemic

reliefweb; UNFPA (2020) C2

This technical brief was developed by the UNFPA Global Ageing Network to complement the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs' (UN DESA) Issue Brief: Older Persons and COVID-19, which emphasized the humanitarian imperative of addressing older persons' specific needs within preparedness and re... more

UNHCR Public Health Section: Surveillance for COVID-19

UNHCR; reliefweb (2020) C2

Effective response to an outbreak of COVID-19 requires detection in the very earliest stages of the outbreak when the number of cases is small, and the geographical extent of spread is limited. In order to achieve this, a sensitive surveillance system capable of detecting small scale, unusual events... more

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Social media cards: Home Care & Covid-19

Pan American Health Organization PAHO, World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This is a series of social media cards for caregivers, ill people, family members, and COVID-19 in the household.

Assessment of risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in health workers: protocol for a case-control study

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Nested case-control study of health workers exposed to confirmed COVID-19 patients. Similar objectives to the cohort study but case-control studies may be cheaper and provide robust evidence to characterize and assess the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers exposed to COVID-19 p... more

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Interim recommendations on obligatory hand hygiene against transmission of COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Current evidence indicates that the COVID-19 virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets or contact. Contact transmission occurs when contaminated hands touch the mucosa of the mouth, nose, or eyes; the virus can also be transferred from one surface to another by contaminated hands, which fac... more

Key Recommendations on water, sanitation and hygiene COVID-19 in the community
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Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) CC

The factsheet is aimed at promoting good water, sanitation and hygiene practices, particularly handwashing with soap as an important barrier to the transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The factsheet also provides messages on measures for cleaning and disinfecting the home.