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 they depart for the field. Below are videos used to ac...company the training sessions, helping to demonstrate infection control measures.
All videos are without sound to avoid language barriers. All videos are intended to be viewed in training sessions with an experienced Médecins Sans Frontières trainer
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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 healthcare professionals working on the Ebola public healt...h emergency in West Africa.
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Objectif du module : Identifier un triple emballage, définir les termes utilisés pour les emballages,classer les matières infectieuses et les exigences d'emballage correspondante
Short, imaged-based courses that do not require high levels of literacy. These are designed to teach those people with limited reading skills about Ebola. You can download the materials in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German, Malay-Bahasa, Indonesian-Bahasa, Danish, Korean, Hindi, Filipino; Mongolian
Objectif du module : identifier l'épidémiologie, les signes, et le diagnostic de la fièvre Ebola
On 23 March 2014 WHO’s African Regional Office reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea. Since then cases have been reported in 5 additional West African countries. This interactive timeline links to key events, stories and further reading. Go to the website http://www.who.int/feature...s/ebola/storymap/en/
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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 rapidly managing the consequences of any further interna...tional spread. It also recognizes the need to address, in parallel, the outbreak’s broader socioeconomic impact.
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