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Gambia: Ebola Virus preparedness Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) DREF Operation n° MDRGM009

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2015)
In February 2014, there was an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, which has spread to Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone causing untold hardship and hundreds of deaths in these countries. As of 6 March 2015, a total o ... more
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Ebola Interim Assessment Panel. Report by the Secretariat

World Health Organization (2015)
The document contains preliminary report on all aspects of WHO’s response in the Ebola outbreak. WHO Member States will discuss the report at the sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.
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Social and Behavior Change Communication for Emergency Preparedness Implementation Kit. Worksheets

USAID; Health Communication Capacity Collaborative The John Hopkins University (2017) C1
This I-Kit provides essential information and tools for responding to an outbreak using an SBCC approach. It presents a series of nine units, each accompanied by exercise worksheets to help link the SBCC theory to practice. The worksheets in each ... more
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Experimental Ebola drugs face tough test in war zone

Maxman, A. (2018) C2
Researchers are devising a clinical-trial protocol to test three medicines in Africa's latest outbreak Nature doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06132-7
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; IFRC, et al. (2018) CC
Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is an essential part of any disease outbreak response. Risk communication in the context of an Ebola outbreak refers to real time exchange of infor ... more
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Rwanda: Ebola Preparedness Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) Final Report - DREF Operation n° MDRRW017

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2019) C1
Eleven (11) districts in Rwanda were initially were considered most at risk of the outbreak, namely: • Rusizi, Nyamasheke, Karongi, Rutsiro, Rubavu (bordering DRC) • Musanze, Burera, Gicumbi and Nyagatare (bordering Uganda) • Kigali city (c ... more
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The New England Journal of Medicine: Cornavirus COVID-19

The New England Journal of Medicine (2020) CC
A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.
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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 shou ... more
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South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 - COVID-19 Addendum (June 2020)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) CC
This document summarizes preparedness and response activities to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in South Sudan through the end of 2020. The addendum includes the activities and financial requirements of the updated National COVI ... more
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COVID-19 Impact: The seeds of a future hunger pandemic?

Action against hunger (2020) C1
Previous pandemics have demonstrated that more people could die from the indirect consequences of an outbreak than from the disease itself. As the fight against the pandemic is pushing millions into poverty and hunger, COVID-19 will likely be no dif ... more
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COVID-19: гигиена и безопасность труда медицинских работников

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO
Interim guidance 2 February 2021 . Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Ukranian, Russian Health workers are at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak response and as such are exposed to different hazards that put them at risk. Occupatio ... more
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Modelling COVID-19 Risk in Kenya To Enhance Humanitarian Response

Kenya Red Cross (2021) C1
This study looked at structural risk factors to COVID-19 that existed before the outbreak and may have direct and indirect effects on COVID-19 risk across all the 47 counties in Kenya. These factors are COVID-19 exposure and vulnerability and lack o ... more
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Surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing for monkeypox: interim guidance 24 June 2022
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO
The overall goal of surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing in this context is to stop human-to-human transmission to control the outbreak. The key objectives of surveillance and case investigation are to rapidly identify cases and clus ... more
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Nigeria: Yellow Fever DREF Operation n° MDRNG031 Final Report

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2021) CC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared a Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak and activated a multi-sectoral Emergency Operations Centre for coordination of Yellow Fever response on 12 November 2020. The ... more
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Chikungunya virus: A general overview

Galán-Huerta K.A., Rivas-Estilla A.M., Fernández-Salas I. et al (2015) C2
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito borne alphavirus responsible for the recent outbreak in the Americas. Immunologically naïve population in the Americas favors the spread of epidemics. Chikungunya fever is characterized by an abr ... more
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Sierra Leone Cholera ERU Operation Review

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC) (2013)
This review of the IFRC support to the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society response to the 2012 cholera outbreak provides ideas and concepts to promote a more coherent and evidence based rationale on how to make more effective use of IFRC global assets t ... more
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Communiqué adopted at end of Ebola Virus Meeting 3 July 2014

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa; (2014)
The Emergency Ministerial meeting on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) with Health Ministers agreeing on a range of priority actions to end the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The scale of the ongoing outbreak ... more
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Ebola Virus. Special Collection

The Science (2014)
Share on emailShare on facebookShare on twitter Share on reddit|More Sharing Services Special CollectionEbola Virus Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science T ... more
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Ebola Response Roadmap
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World Health Organization (2014)
The World Health Organization is issuing a "roadmap" to guide and coordinate the international response to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa. The aim is to stop ongoing Ebola transmission worldwide within 6–9 months, while rapid ... more
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Practical recommendations to the attention of healthcare professionals and health authorities regarding the identification of and care delivered to suspected or confirmed carriers

Superior Health Council (2014)
of highly contagious viruses (of the Ebola or Marburg type) in the context of an epidemic outbreak in West Africa
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Information for Ill Travelers: Ebola What you need to do (for travelers with Ebola symptoms)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014)
For use with travelers who may have symptoms consistent with Ebola and were recently in an area affected by an Ebola outbreak, but have no other known exposures
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Dressing PPE

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Blood drawing

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Undressing PPE

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Decontamination Equipment

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Decontamination Ambulance

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Discharge Procedure

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Ebola Practical Training Video: Disinfection Dead Body

Médecins sans Frontières (2014) CC
In response to the urgent need for trained health professionals to assist in the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running training sessions in Brussels for international aid workers before the ... more
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Mobilising informal health workers for the Ebola response: potential and programme considerations

Annie Wilkinson, Almudena Marí Sáez, Jonah Lipton, Fred Martineau and Clare Chandler IDS, US University of Sussex, University of Exeter, London School of Higiene and Tropical Medicine (2014)
Informal health workers are important care providers in the region and continue to be so during the current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak. Many are well respected and trusted members of the community who can mobilise large numbers of people for ... more
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Liberia Ebola Virus Disease Clinical Management Manual

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia (2014)
This clinical management manual for Ebola Viral Disease in Liberia was developed after several ETUs were established in the country following the outbreak early this year. As the outbreak evolved, i ... more
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Ebola in Perspective

by Mary Moran and Daniel Hoffman (2014)
Cultural Anthropology Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dan ... more
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Study on the Gendered Impacts of Ebola in Liberia (February 2015)

Leena Kotilainen Finn Church Aid (2015)
This study examines the gendered impacts of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia in the largest outbreak of EVD ever recorded. The findings are based on an extensive two-week desk study and one-week participatory field study conducted in January ... more
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Ebola Needs Analysis Project (ENAP): Sierra Leone Multi-Sector Assessment Reports (April 2015)

Assessment Capacities Project (2015)
The number of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone is declining, despite the outbreak continuing to claim lives. New cases have dropped to around 9-12 per week, according to recent WHO figures. There were over 500 cases per week at the height of the ... more
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GO pre-deployment training: participant handbook
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World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO
This is a pre-deployment training, tailored specially to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, offered to WHO personnel, consultants, and key partners. The material covered in modules 1-4 is applicable and useful to frontline response workers, national ... more
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South Sudan Health Cluster Bulletin 12, December 2018

World Health Organization, Health Cluster (2019) C_WHO
Emergency WASH in Health Facilities in Conflict Affected Locations 756 health workers trained on disease surveillance and outbreak response. Around 142 health workers trained on integrated health (WASH and Nutrition) response. 405 health facilities ... more
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Social Science in Epidemics: Ebola Virus Disease lessons learned. Summary

Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform (2019) C1
This brief draws out some recommendations for Ebola response actors in North Kivu. It includes lessons learned primarily from (i) historical outbreaks in Congo; (ii) outbreaks in Uganda in 2000-01 and 2012; (iii) the 2014-2016 West African epidemic; (iv) the ... more
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Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
WHO and public health authorities around the world are taking action to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. However, long term success cannot be taken for granted. All sections of our society – including businesses and employers – must play a role if ... more
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Online micro learning activities on non-pharmaceutical countermeasures in relation to COVID-19

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2020) C1
ECDC is now offering a series of micro learning activities related to COVID-19 (the disease causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak). The e-learning activities are available in the ECDC Virtual Academy (EVA). https://eva.ecdc.europa.eu/mod/scorm ... more
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COVID-19 Environmental Health Guidelines

Nation Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa Department: Health Republic of South Africa (2020) C2
This document aims to guide Environmental Health Services (EHS) on key roles related to the management of the outbreak. This guide should be read in conjunction with the guideline for case finding, diagnosis, management and public health response ... more
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COVID-19 Hub

ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences (2020) CC
This page aims to support researchers and interested individuals by providing tools and data sets related to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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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
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Coping With Stress During Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA (2020) C1
When you hear, read, or watch news about an outbreak of an infectious disease such as Ebola, you may feel anxious and show signs of stress—even when the outbreak affects people far from where you ... more
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Surface sampling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): A practical “how to” protocol for health care and public health professionals

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
The role of environmental contamination in transmission of COVID-19 virus is currently not clear. This protocol has been designed to determine (viable) virus presence and persistence on fomites in various locations where a patient infected with COVID-19 is currently receiving care or being isolated, ... more
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Covid-19 National Rapid Response Teams Online Learning Package
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World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
This training is part of the national Rapid Response Team Training package, adapted to take into account specific issues pertaining to the COVID-19 outbreak. Several technical aspects presented here were developed and posted on different WHO platfor ... more
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Operational Considerations for Managing COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks in Aviation

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
At the end of this course, you should be able to: - draft an airport public health contingency plan for managing COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in aviation; - manage an outbreak of COVID-19 disease in aviation. Target audience: - National IHR Fo ... more
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Covering COVID-19: Handbook for Journalists

Media Empowerment fora Democratic Sri Lanka (MEND) Program (2020) CC
Collection of Tools, Techniques, Resources and Stragtegies for Journalists covering the Coronavirus Outbreak. Includes Tools for Fact-Checking, misinformation and hoaxes.
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Tip-sheet to identify and make use of online and digital resources to offer mental health and psychosocial support to children and adolescents in the context of COVID-19

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region (2020) C_UNICEF
The current COVID-19 epidemic, like other infectious disease outbreak previously, imposes to Child Protection actors to work and deliver services with great creativity and flexibility, especially in those areas of interventions traditionally rely ... more
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Considerations on Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and Other Ethnic Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2020) C_WHO
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, constituted a pandemic, given the speed and scale of its transmission. The Region of the Americas is characterized by ... more
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Holistic response strategies for COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO
This document outlines minimum requirements of laboratory testing for COVID-19 and link laboratory testing with surveillance and contact tracing to guide the outbreak response by national health authorities using a reduced number of tests performed. ... more
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Situational Brief: Marginalized Migrants in Israel during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Gottlieb N., N. Davidovitch, D. F. Filc et al. Lancet Migration (2020) CC
In Israel, as in other countries, the COVID-19 outbreak highlights existing structural inequities,which compromise the health of some migrant groups. The Israeli case also demonstrate show strong NGOs successfully advocate for the protection of migr ... more
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Guidance for Awake Prone Ventilation in the non-intubated Conscious Patient
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) CC
It is intended for use among clinicians taking care of moderate to severe COVID-19 cases. The COVID-19 outbreak has brought with it the need for improved critical care for patients who develop severe disease. The majority of COVID-19 patients prese ... more
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Children and young people’s voices in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: Child-friendly report

World Vision (2020) C2
This research was conducted in March and April 2020 to explore children and young people’s reflections and perceptions on the COVID-19 outbreak. This study was organised in response to the young people’s continued child activism in the face of p ... more
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Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2: a guide to implementation for maximum impact on public health

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO
8 January 2021 Sequencing enabled the world to rapidly identify SARS-CoV-2 and develop diagnostic tests and other tools for outbreak management. Continued genome sequencing supports the monitoring of the disease’s spread and evolution of the viru ... more
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Publications Resource Platform COVID-19

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2021) CC
A non-exhaustive repository of COVID-19 related scientific publications undertaken by LSHTM researchers since the beginning of the outbreak.
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Maintien d’un approvisionnement en sang sûr et suffisant et collecte de plasma de convalescent dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19 : orientations provisoires, 17 février 2021

Organisation mondiale de Santé (2021) C_WHO
This document provides interim guidance on the management of the blood supply in response to the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It emphasizes the importance of being prepared and responding quickly and outlines key actions and ... more
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Mantenimiento de un suministro de sangre seguro y suficiente y recogida de plasma de personas convalecientes en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19: orientaciones provisionales, 17 de febrero de 20

Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS (2021) C_WHO
This document provides interim guidance on the management of the blood supply in response to the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It emphasizes the importance of being prepared and responding quickly and outlines key actions and ... more
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The Sphere standards and the response to Coronavirus (ARABIC)

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? This document has two sections: A. The first section covers ... more
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Assessing health systems in Guinea for prevention and control of priority zoonotic diseases: A One Health approach

Standleya C. J., Carlinb E. P., Sorrella E. M. et al. Elsevier (2019) CC
To guide One Health capacity building efforts in the Republic of Guinea in the wake of the 2014–2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, we sought to identify and assess the existing systems and structures for zoonotic disease detection and contro ... more
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Infection prevention and control measures when caring for patients with suspected or confirmed respiratory diphtheria: a summary

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO
This operational guide addresses important infection prevention and control (IPC) measures that should be implemented during a diphtheria outbreak and primarily addresses respiratory Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheria).
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Ethiopia Health Cluster Strategy 2024-2025

World Health Organization WHO; Health Cluster (2024) CC
Ethiopia has been repeatedly affected by conflict, flooding, drought, and disease outbreaks in the past years. As of January 2024, the country is actively responding to the longest recorded cholera outbreak which started in August 2022, recurrent me ... more
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Mpox Public Health Emergency Appeal

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO
WHO needs US$ 87.4 million over 6 months, from September 2024 to February 2025, to work with countries, partners and other stakeholders to stop and contain the current outbreak of mpox.
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Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO
On August 13, 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). The following day, the WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). A coordinated, continent-wide ... more
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Protecting Kids: Mpox Guidelines for Schools

Africa CDC (2024) C_CDC
The safety of children is a top concern for parents and school authorities in the current mpox outbreak, as those under 15 face elevated risks, particularly in the hardesthit Northwestern and Eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... more
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Cómo combatir el cólera: Presentación y manejo clínico para el brote de cólera en Haití de 2010

CDC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010) C_CDC
The document titled "Cómo combatir el cólera" (How to Combat Cholera) provides comprehensive guidelines on the clinical presentation and management of cholera, particularly in the context of the 2010 Haiti outbreak. It emphasizes the importance ... more
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Fason pou Gen Laviktwa sou Kolera
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Ministry of Health, Haiti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2011) C_CDC
The document titled "Fason pou Gen Laviktwa sou Kolera" (How to Achieve Victory over Cholera) provides comprehensive guidelines on the clinical presentation and management of cholera, particularly in the context of the 2010 Haiti outbreak. It emphas ... more
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Surveillance in Post Extreme Emergencies and Disasters (SPEED)

World Health Organization, Western Pacific Office (2011)
In the last quarter of 2009, tropical storms Ketsana, Pharma and Santi poured the heaviest rainfall on Metro Manila in more than 40 years. This caused massive flooding in the National Capital Region and Region IVA. A few weeks later, the world's biggest leptospirosis ... more
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The Story of Cholera, Arabic

Global Health Media Project Youtube (2014) CC
The Story of Cholera is seen as a great tool to promote basic hygiene practices and has been narrated in Arabic to be shown in these Settlements. It is seen as both a prevention measure against potential cholera outbreak and/or other type of diarrhe ... more
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Infection Control outside the VHF Treatment Facility

MSF (2008)
This section deals with implementing and improving infection control practices in hospitals, health centres and other health services in the outbreak area. It explains the need for, and implementation of, effective triage procedures, and basic requi ... more
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National Library of Medicine (NLM) Ebola Articles in Pubmed

National Library of Medicine (2014)
NLM Launches Emergency Access Initiative, Granting Free Access to Books and Journals for Healthcare Professionals Fighting Ebola Outbreak. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthc ... more
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Ebola Alerts

Healthmap (2014)
This Healthmap from Boston Children’s Hospital tracks publicly reported confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola throughout the world. The map is automatically updated to show current data on the outbreak: Click on: http://healthmap.org/ebola/
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Ethical considerations for use of unregistered interventions for Ebola viral disease

World Health Organization (2014)
West Africa is experiencing the largest, most severe, most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history. On 11 August 2014, WHO convened a consultation where the participants concluded that in the particular context of the current Ebola ... more
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Infection Prevention and Control Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Ebola Care Centres
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Government of Liberia; Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (2014)
Keep Safe – Keep Serving; Liberia: Updated Sept 25 2014. This document is intended to inform infection prevention and control practices and supply needs in healthcare facilities. As the Ebola outbreak evolves, the document will need to be adapted ... more
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Training Health Workers for Ebola

mPowering Frontlline Health; IntraHealth (2014)
The Ebola crisis has impacted some of the most vulnerable areas of the world, and frontline health workers are struggling to keep pace with the outbreak. The “Training Health Workers for Ebola” series consists of four webinars, and aims to provi ... more
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DisasterReady.org: Ebola Awareness Quick Guide

DisasterReady (2014)
This 15-minute quick guide is developed with content available from the World Health Organization, CDC, and other organizations. The general public and aid workers without specialized health training will benefit from increased awareness of this outbreak ... more
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Guidance on temporary malaria control measures in Ebola-affected countries

World Health Organization (2014)
Malaria is a prevalent cause of febrile illnesses in areas with high transmission, and its clinical presentation overlaps with initial signs of Ebola disease. For this reason, the effectiveness of the Ebola response in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone can be optimized through the deployment of targe ... more
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Ebola virus disease preparedness strengthening team Cameroon Country Visit 10 to 14 November

World Health Organization (2014)
The immediate objective of the country visit to Cameroon was to ensure that the country is as operationally ready as possible to effectively and safely detect, investigate and report potential Ebola virus disease cases and to mount an effective response that will prevent a larger ... more
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Ebola: Infection Prevention and Control for Health Care Workers in Community and Health Care Settings

WiRed International (2015)
Ebola infections among health care providers can have devastating effects on individuals, on health care systems and on the communities they serve. This module discusses WHO and CDC infection prevention and control measures that health care facilities should follow to prepare for and to contain an i ... more
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) – Key questions and answers concerning health care waste

World Health Organization (2021) C_WHO
Update September 2021. Safe management of health care waste practices play an essential role in protecting human health during all disease outbreaks, including during Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks. This question and answer document provides practical, evidence-based recommendations on minimum ... more
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Ebola virus disease preparedness strengthening team Senegal country visit 17–21 November 2014

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO
The immediate objective of the country visit to Senegal was to build upon the public health preparedness already in place and to ensure that systems are available to investigate and report potential EVD cases and to mount an effective response to prevent a larger ... more
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Ebola virus disease preparedness strengthening team Ghana country visit 10–15 Novmeber 2014

World Health Organization (2014)
The preparedness strengthening team deployed to Ghana focused on specific objectives in order to assist the country in becoming as operationally prepared as possible to detect, investigate and report potential EVD cases effectively and safely and to mount an effective response to prevent a larger ... more
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Community Ebola Toolkit

Community Health Global Network (2014)
The CHGN Ebola toolkit is a collection of resources that we hope will be of use to many of the organisations, agencies and individuals working to address the Ebola outbreak in English-speaking West Africa, particularly those engaged at the community ... more
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Bringing the Community Together to Plan for Disease Outbreaks and Other Emergencies. A Step-by-Step Guide for Community Leaders

AI.COMM (2010)
Each year, dozens of communities around the world face natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other emergencies. Scientists think that a worldwide influenza outbreak will happen sometime in the next decade. The purpose of this guide is to help lo ... more
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Real Time Evaluation of the Ebola Control Programs in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Final Report

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2015)
The scope includes the assessment of activities to improve the response to affected populations, stakeholders, partners and donors, building on lessons learnt so far in this outbreak.
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Regional Plan of Action for Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness in East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands - Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) operation n° MDR64007

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2015)
Situation analysis Description of the disaster An Ebola epidemic that started in March 2014 in Guinea has relentlessly continued to claim lives and to spread to other countries in West Africa. The current Ebola outbreak is the largest in hist ... more
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Understanding the Ebola Virus and How You Can Avoid It

Alison (2015)
Learn more about the Ebola virus and how to avoid it. Free online course. Having completed this course the learner will be able to: - Describe what the Ebola virus is; - List the countries where the outbreak has occurred; - Explain what the signs a ... more
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WHO: GO Training Package Course videos

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO
The GO training package was developed by the World Health Organization for use by staff, consultants and partners who are part of the emergency response, so that they can work safely as part of the teams working to bring the outbreak under control. ... more
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Ebola virus disease in pregnancy: Screening and management of Ebola cases, contacts and survivors

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO
Interim Guidance. This document provides guidance for: screening and triage of pregnant women in the context of an Ebola outbreak; infection prevention and control (IPC) precautions for pregnant women at risk of EVD transmission during childbirth ... more
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Laboratory issues for epidemiologists

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO
The main objectives of the training module - facilitate communication and understanding between the two disciplines of epidemiology and laboratory (medicine) for disease surveillance and outbreak investigation; - provide the field epidemiolog ... more
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Ebola: WHO recovery toolkit

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO
The Toolkit is a library of technical tools and resources that have been constructed to support the implementation of national health plans during the recovery phase in the context of the Ebola outbreak. It brings together technical expertise and re ... more
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Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges

Robert W. Malone, Jane Homan, Michael V. Callahan et al. (2016) CC
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(3): e0004530 -Published: March 2, 2016 This paper reviews the status of the Zika virus outbreak, including medical countermeasureoptions, with a focus on how the epidemiology, insect vectors, neuropathology, virology and immun ... more
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Using media and communication to respond to public health emergencies: lessons learned from Ebola

Wilkinson, S. BBC Media Action (2016) CC
The paper sets out the specific communication challenge posed by Ebola and why it was so difficult to get to grips with this in the early months of the outbreak. It thendocuments when the health communication response became more useful and explores ... more
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Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience

Gerald Keusch, Keith McAdam, Patricia Cuff, Michelle Mancher, and Emily R. Busta National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) C1
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Repub ... more
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Occupational exposures to Ebola virus in Ebola treatment center, Conakry, Guinea

Savini H, Janvier F, Karkowski L, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017) C_CDC
Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Aug (Accessed July 18,2017) Abstract: We report 77 cases of occupational exposures for 57 healthcare workers at the Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea, during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014-2015. Despite the ... more
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Обеспечение достаточных запасов безопасной крови и сбор плазмы реконвалесцентов в условиях пандемии COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO
: interim guidance, 17 February 2021 This document provides interim guidance on the management of the blood supply in response to the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It emphasizes the importance of being prepared and responding ... more
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Communication Risk in Public Health Emergencies
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO
A WHO Guideline for Emergency Risk Communication (ERC) policy and practice. Recent public health emergencies, such as the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (2014–2015), the emergence of the Zika virus syndrome in 2015–2016 and multi- ... more
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SOUTH SUDAN : Humanitarian Snapshot (January 2018)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2018)
In January 2018, over 10,000 people fled their homes following clashes reported in multiple locations in Jonglei, including Yuai, Pultruk, Payai, Kuer-nyuon, Pieri, Waat and Walgak. Some crossed to Ethiopia, where 2,300 people registered as refugees in the Gambela region. There were several report ... more
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Cholera: Revised cholera kits and calculation tool

World Health Organization (WHO) (2021) C_WHO
In 2016 WHO introduced the Cholera Kits. These kits replace the Interagency Diarrhoeal Disease Kit (IDDK) which had been used for many years. The Cholera Kit is designed to be flexible and adaptable for preparedness and outbreak response in differen ... more
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Epidemic Preparedness in Myanmar

Myanmar Red Cross Society (2015) C1
Adaptation and roll-out of Epidemic Control for Volunteers’ (ECV) Toolkit and Training Manual in Myanmar
The ECV Toolkit ensures that volunteers have the proper training and essential communication tools (among other materials) before they are engaged in ... more
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Cholera in Yemen: A case study of epidemic preparedness and response

The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Healt (2018) C1
The report offers 20 top recommendations for getting ahead of future outbreaks in Yemen and similarly complex humanitarian settings. In 2015, Yemen was declared a Level 3 emergency by the UN, kicking into gear the highest level of humanitarian support. A massive cholera ... more