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The Sphere standards and the Coronavirus response

The Sphere (2021) C_Sphere

Updated 8 June 2021. The document has two sections: A. The first section covers fundamental principles which are crucial to a successful, holistic intervention. B. The second covers relevant standards and guidance in the handbook’s Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH) and Health... more

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The Sphere standards and the response to Coronavirus in mulitple languages

Sphere - Standards (2021) C2

The Coronavirus is spreading globally. How can individuals, communities and humanitarian actors best respond to the COVID-19 outbreak? How can the Sphere Handbook guide our response? These guidelines are available in different languages

COVID-19 An informative guide. Advice for journalists

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

This document offers tools to help journalists practice responsible coverage of the pandemic using evidence-based information. It also proposes ways to approach coverage and encourages journalists to provide advice and solutions that can help reduce health risks and save lives.

Guidance Note to Inform District Level Planning on the Provision of Child Protection, Psychosocial Services with Gender considerations in the EVD Phase II Context

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone (2015)

Training catalogue for outbreak response

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

The training courses cover a wide range of technical and disease topics, to help prepare response workers with the skills and knowledge they need in a health emergency.

Sierra Leone: National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2016-2020
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National AIDS Secretariat Sierra Leone, et al. (2015) C1

UNAIDS and Sierra Leone Country update
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UNAIDS (2016) C1

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Wash interventions in disease outbreak response

Travis Yates, Jelena V. Allen, Myriam Leandre Joseph et al. Humanitarian Evidence Programme, Oxford, Oxfam (2017) C1

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National AIDS Commission of Liberia: 2015 Annual Report

National AIDS Commission of Liberia (2016) C1

COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains: How to respond ?

Cullen M. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2020) CC

Countries have shut down the economy to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now. But a protracted pandemic crisi s could quickly put a strai n on the f ood supply chains, a complex web of interactions involving farmers, agricultu... more

Guidance for the continuation of essential health services during COVID-19 pandemic

Africa CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) CC

This document provides guidance for African Union Member States on actions to be taken to ensure they continue to meet all the health needs of their citizens in accordance with achieving the objectives of the Africa Health Strategy 2016 – 2030.

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Controlling the spread of COVID-19 at ground crossings

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

COVID-19: Travel, Points of Entry and Border Health

What works. Addressing COVID-19 misinformation: Lessons from the frontlines in 100 countries

Internews (2021) CC

A report demonstrating the urgent need to support groups at the local level if COVID-19 misinformation and mistrust is to be tackled effectively.

Transmission-based precautions for the prevention and control of infections: aide-memoire
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Transmission-based precautions (TBP) are used in addition to standard precautions for patients with known or suspected infection or colonization1 with transmissible and/or epidemiologically significant pathogens. The type of transmission-based precautions assigned to a patient depends on the trans... more

Health emergency preparedness for imported cases of high-consequence infectious diseases

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ecdc) (2022) C_CDC

Preparedness planning is essential in order to respond effectively to outbreaks, including single case occurrences of highconsequence infectious diseases (HCID), such as the importation of a viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) case

International and local/diaspora actors in the Syria response - A diverging set of systems?

Eva-Svoboda; Sara Pantuliano ODI_ Humanitarian Policy Group (2015)

This paper examines how diaspora and local organisations have responded to the crisis in Syria, how they evolved and the challenges that they face - and how international aid organisations and disapora and local groups can better work together in a new aid model.