Lignes directrices provisoires, 13 août 2020
L’OMS a établi cette brève note d’information pour répondre au besoin de recommandations sur la prestation sûre de soins à domicile aux patients présumés atteints de l’infection par le nouveau coronavirus (2019-nCoV) présentant des symptô...mes bénins, et sur les mesures de santé publique liées à la prise en charge des contacts asymptomatiques.
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Immunizations are an essential health service that protect susceptible individuals from vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD).2 By providing timely immunizations, individuals and communities remain protected and the likelihood of a VPD outbreak decreases
This publication is available in Arabic, Chines...e, English, French, Russian and Spanish
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La vaccination est un service de santé essentiel qui protège les sujets sensibles contre les maladies à prévention vaccinale (MPV).2 La vaccination en temps voulu permet aux individus et aux communautés de rester protégés et diminue la probabilité d’une poussée épidémi...que de MPV.
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The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak was catastrophic in West Africa but the indirect impact of increasing the mortality rates of other conditions was also substantial. The increased number of deaths caused by malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis attributable to health system failures exceeded deaths from ...Ebola.
With a relatively limited COVID-19 caseload, health systems may have the capacity to maintain routine service delivery in addition to managing COVID-19 cases. When caseloads are high, and/or health workers are directly affected, strategic adaptations are required to ensure that increasingly limited resources provide maximum benefit for the refugees and surrounding host population. The following are key considerations for UNHCR operations on prioritized health care services in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. These are based on WHO Guidance for Maintaining Essential Health Services and UNHCR guidance for operations and where relevant operation or site level outbreak preparedness and response plans.
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PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
Ce document d'orientation explique comment la distance physique (appelée "distance sociale" dans les documents d'orientation précédents) peut contribuer à ralentir la transmission.
This policy paper underscores that, although children do not represent a high-risk group for direct COVID-19 fatality, the pandemic posts far-reaching secondary impacts that heighten risks to African children’s rights and wellbeing.
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 relying on group-gathering (i.e. Child Friendly Spaces)... and face-toface
interactions.
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The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world, with over 80 per cent of the population estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance. The protracted crisis has displaced millions of Yemenis, placing pressure on host communities with limited capacity to support displaced populations....
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Over the past weeks, there has been wide media attention on the risk of transmission of the novel coronavirus [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)] by asymptomatic individuals. This situation has also been extensively discussed on various platforms globally. The purpose of t...his position statement is for the Africa Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to clarify the situation of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pre-asymptomatic and asymptomatic Individuals.
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This statement aims to provide guidance and recommendation to African Union Member States in responding to the following questions:
What should countries do when announcing identification of a herbal remedy or medicine?
What are the implications for the rest of the continent?
document d’information scientifique, 17 juin 2020
This checklist is to accompany the full Interim Technical Note on Protection form Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) during COVIID-19 Response.
Coronaviren sind eine grosse Familie von Viren, von denen bekannt ist, dass sie Krankheiten verursachen, die von Erkaeltungen bis hin zu schwereren Erkrankungen wie dem Atemwegssyndrom im Nahen Osten (MERS) und dem schweren akuten Atemwegssyndrom (SARS) reichen.
Ein neuartiges Coronavirus (COVID-...19) wurde 2019 in Wuhan, China, identifiziert. Dabei handelt es sich um ein neues Coronavirus, das bisher noch nicht beim Menschen identifiziert wurde.
Dieser Kurs bietet eine allgemeine Einfuehrung in COVID-19 und neu auftretende Atemwegsviren und richtet sich an Fachleute des oeffentlichen Gesundheitswesens, Manager fuer Zwischenfaelle und Personal, das fuer die Vereinten Nationen, internationale Organisationen und Nichtregierungsorganisationen arbeitet.
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Key highlights from January to April 2020 (Syria situation)
Across the MENA region, UNHCR is receiving alarming reports of increasing mental health issues among the forcibly displaced. Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) activities are being stepped up by UNHCR and partners to address th...is new dangerous trend.
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Medicina (B. Aires) vol.80 supl.6 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires dic. 2020
La tuberculosis es una enfermedad infecciosa crónica endémica en la República Argentina causada
por Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cuya localización más frecuente es la pulmonar. Suele afectar
grupos poblacionales car...enciados y tiene gran repercusión sobre la salud pública. COVID-19 es una infección
viral aguda caus 101-ada por SARS-CoV-2 que tiene típico compromiso respiratorio y, en ocasiones, puede pre-
sentar similitudes clínicas y radiológicas con la tuberculosis pulmonar. Ambas entidades pueden tener desenlace
fatal si no son diagnosticadas y tratadas a tiempo.
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