Toolbox Polio

Auto-Visual AFP Detection and Reporting (AVADAR)

eHealth Africa Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2019) CC

AVADAR is a mobile sms-based software application designed to improve the quality and sensitivity of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance by health workers and key informants within hospital facilities and local communities. The idea is simple: Health workers visit remote villages to check if... more

WHO Science in 5 Episode #62 - Polio & COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

How has the pandemic impacted the fight against Polio? How has the polio infrastructure helped the fight against COVID-19? Why is it important that the world doesn’t take its eyes off polio? Sona Bari explains in Science in 5 this week.

Village responses to Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Eastern Sierra Leone

Paul Richards, Joseph Amara, Esther Mokuwa, Alfred Mokuwa, Roland Suluku Njala University (2015)

Second interim report to the SMAC program, DFID Freetown This report provides further output from an anthropological study of 25 villages affected by Ebola Virus Disease in eastern and central Sierra Leone, undertaken as part of the DFID-funded social mobilization initiative for Ebola prevention in... more

Film sur la prévention du virus Ebola en langue des signes en Côte d'Ivoire

Association Nationale des sourds de Cote d'Ivoire (ANASOCI) (2014)

The film has information in French, English, and Langue des Signes en Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast Sign Language). Please click on the link to view the video

Wired Education Course Polio

WiRED International (2013)

in Arabic: http://www.wiredhealthresources.net/presentations/117-ab/story.html

Communication pour un impact comportemental (COMBI)

OMS, UNICEF. FAO (2012) CC

Outil pour la communication comportementale et sociale dans le cadre de la riposte aux flambées épidémiques

Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI) Toolkit

World Health Organization (2012)

This field workbook supports the implementation of the interagency (FAO, UNICEF, WHO) “Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI): A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response”. It is a handheld guide and notebook for applying the WHO COMBI methodology in 7-steps, du... more

Outbreak Response Forms

Polio Global Eradication Intiative (2010)

This collection of forms (in MS Excel) should be used in training and included in the outbreak response guidelines. The forms include tally sheets, check lists, household assessment and missed children forms. They can be adapted to specific national conditions.