PloS NTD January 2010 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 | e603. Open Access pleae download from the website
Plos Neglected Tropical Diaseses, vol. 5 (2011) Issue 7 e1233. Open Access. Please download from the website
Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Improvement (QI). The guide provides general information on how to organize, implement and follow up on quality assurance/quality improvement clinical facility and service assessments. At the website you will find checklists intended to be used with the clinical fa...cility assessment guide
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Globalization and Health 2014, 10:1. Open Access. Please download fromm the website
New England Journal of Medicine 2014; 370:1335-1342. Please download the pdf-file from the nejm Website!
A number of viruses have pandemic potential. The most recent global pandemic was caused by the influenza A (H1N1) strain, which was first detected in North America in 2009. The 2009 H1N1 pande...mic presented a public health emergency of uncertain scope, duration, and effect. At the request of the WHO, an international committee reviewed the experience of the pandemic, with special attention given to the function of the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) and the performance of the WHO. The most fundamental conclusion of the committee, which applies today, is not reassuring: “The world is ill prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any similarly global, sustained and threatening public-health emergency
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Open Access: The Lancet Global Health, volume 2 issue 6 pages e323-333. Please click on the website link to download the pdf-file
The New England Journal of Medicine
Genetic analysis of the virus indicates that it is closely related (97% identical) to variants of Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus) identified earlier in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon
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A Community Guide to Environmental Health > Chapter 19: Health Care Waste. Please download this chapter from the website of Hesperian
PLoS ONE 7(12): e52986. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052986. Opern Access please download from the website
Epidemiol Infect. May 2007; 135(4): 610–621. . Please click on the website link and download the pdf-file. Open Access
A new mobile learning courses developed by CapacityPlus lead partner IntraHealth International offer specialized guidance on care and prevention for health workers in Ebola-affected areas, delivered through SMS text messages or through interactive voice response on simple mobile phones. The reources... will be available on the IntraHealth International website
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This interactive map of Africa tracks reported cases of Ebola and the number of deaths. The map will be updated every few days as new data become available. Please check the website
Very good infographic included in this article: The virus can lurk in the body for more than a week before it begins a cascading meltdown of the immune system, blood vessels and vital organs.
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Source of the infographic: CDC, New England Journa...l of Medicine, NIH, Science, The Lancet, Nature. By Patterson Clark, Darla Cameron and Sohail Al-Jamea, The Washington Post. Published October 3, 2014.
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Thanks to WONCA, the leading medical textbook Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine has similarly made its Ebola content available here: http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=331§ionid=40726956
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Open Access. Please download the pdf-file from the website!
WiRED Rapid Response Training Module. Free Online Education Course. Please go to the website: http://www.wiredhealthresources.net/presentations/38-X/story.html
N Engl J Med 2014; 371:2083-2091November 27, 2014DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1411099
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Now available in an interactive map journal that shows the evolution of the outbreak and the global response. Please download the latest version from the website
http://apps.who.int/ebola/en/current-situation/ebola-maps
An interactive lesson about Ebola. Covers a wide range of topics. Aimed at communities and schools. Best viewed via DVD (available from TME website), but see link provided.
This lesson is available in two formats – our classic interactive DVD, or a new online viewable format, TMElite. Both have ...versions translated into English, French, Krio and Runyankole (Hausa and Yoruba on their way).
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These are the preliminary results of the Zambia Demographic Health Survey 2014. They were presented at a press conference in Lusaka in Sep-14.
Please download the slides directly from the website:
http://de.slideshare.net/ColaLife/zambia-dhs-2014-preliminary-slides-22sept2014