This document provides a summary of the recommendations for hand hygiene best practices to be performed by health workers providing care and/or support to patients with filovirus infection (Ebola and Marburg viruses).
This revised Emergency Appeal will support 400,000 of the most vulnerable people in these areas for six months, and will also undertake preparedness and prevention work in Equateur’s four neighbouring Provinces.
Lancet Glob Health 2016; 4: e856–63. Open Access
CDC course for volunteers going to Africa. Please find out mor infos on the CDC website
This document describes recommended measures for dealing with medical and other staff employed either in patient care or in outbreak control during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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Report for WHO Meningitis guideline revision
Dr Thomas Waite, April 2014
Field Epidemiology Services, Public Health England; UK
Outline
• Welcome and objectives
• Microbiology, epidemiology and clinical presentation
• Surveillance for imported cases including case definitions
• Laboratory diagnosis • Infection prevention and hospital readiness
• Patient flow and actions required at each step
• Co-ord...inating a public health response
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The information contained in this document, be it guidelines, recommendations, diagnostic algorithms or treatment regimens, are offered in this document in the public interest. To the best of the knowledge of the guideline writing team, the information contained in these guidelines is correct. Imple...mentation of any aspect of these guidelines remains the responsibility of the implementing agency in so far as public health liability resides, or the responsibility of the individual clinician in the case of diagnosis or treatment.
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ACAPS Primary Data Collection report: November 2015.
This report reflects the views and voices of 53 university students in Sierra Leone and results from a focus group discussion held at the Geography Department, at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, on 20 October 2015. As th...e response moves towards recovery and long-term development planning, the perceptions of the younger generation on the crisis highlight their priorities for the future.
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