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	Saving Lives and Livelihoods Africa CDC: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) CC View PDF(27) Download (14) Add to my MEDBOX Currently, Mauritius and Seychelles have 85 and 82 percent vaccination rates, respectively, surpassing the 70 percent target set by the WHO in 2021. Countries that have attained vaccination rates of between 50 and 70 percent include Liberia at 67 percent, Rwanda at 66 percent, Morocco at 62 percent, and Tunisia at 53 percent. Meanwhile, about 25.3 percent of the continent's population is fully vaccinated. Africa has registered over 12 million COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The following countries have recorded the highest number of cases: Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisi Tags: prevention, disease control, livelihood, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cd
	Covid-19 Test to Treat Guidelines African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) C1 View PDF(28) Download (10) Add to my MEDBOX n response to the outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has been supporting African Union Member States in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic through a variety of interventions such as non-pharmaceutical interventions, quarantine, testing, isolation, contact tracing, and clinical management. The Test to Treat guideline aims to increase continental testing efforts and reduce COVID-19 transmission in Africa and put-up response measures to control the impact of the virus, both to limit spread and to reduce substantially the risks of severe health outcomes related to COVID-19 infection. These countermeasures include highly effective vaccines and boosters, rapid testing options for monitoring exposure, and effective therapeutic options for both pre-exposure prevention and treatment of mild-to-moderate disease, oxygen therapy for moderate-severe disease, all of which can potentially be updated efficiently as new variants emerge that may affect the effectiveness of the available tools Tags: Testing, Outbreak Control, outbreak managment, Prevention, Guidelines, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-
	The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic Sachs, J., Karim, S., Aknin, L. et al. The Lancet Commissions (2022) CC Open external link (224) Add to my MEDBOX This Commission report aims to contribute to a new era of multilateral cooperation based on strong UN institutions to reduce the dangers of COVID-19, forestall the next pandemic, and enable the world to achieve the agreed goals of sustainable development, human rights, and peace that governments are committed to pursue as members of the UN. We address this Commission report to the UN member states, the UN agencies and multilateral institutions, and multilateral processes such as the G20 and the G7 Tags: COVID-19, Lessons learned, future, pandemic, governance, global health governance, UN, sustainable development, multilateral, outbreak, airborne infections, airborne precautions, biosafety, laboratory biosafety, Source: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf
	Revised COVID-19 Testing Strategy African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2022) CC View PDF(39) Download (25) Add to my MEDBOX Second edition. June 2022. This revised guidance recommends that access to COVID-19 testing is decentralized as far as possible and made available at health facilities, and through the use of self tests to enable access to care and the mitigation of transmission. Testing should be prioritized for high-risk and vulnerable individuals presenting with acute onset of respiratory illness so that those found to be infected can benefit from clinical care and access to COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccine Tags: Testing, Surveillance, outbreak prevention, outbreak managment, Prevention, transmission, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Source: https://africacdc.org/download/revised-c
	The future of WHO Covid-19 response operations in Africa in 2022 World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO View PDF(45) Download (39) Add to my MEDBOX The African Region has been experiencing unprecedented health challenges due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which have compounded the already difficult task the Region was facing in moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) attainment Tags: COVID-19, strategy, Africa, response plan, Prevention, outbreak managment, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Strengthening pandemic preparedness planning for respiratory pathogens: policy brief, 27 April 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(34) Download (19) Add to my MEDBOX This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub-national functional capacities for preparedness. In addition, this policy brief highlights suggested actions for Member States as they initiate or update national and sub-national pandemic preparedness planning process Tags: Respiratory Infections, pandemic, preparedness, Capacity Building, national level, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Preparing for and responding to global health emergencies Cochrane Convenes (2022) C1 View PDF(49) Download (29) Add to my MEDBOX Learnings from the COVID-19 evidence response and recommendations for the future. Reflections and recommendations from the evidence synthesis community. Tags: COVID-19, Lessons learned, preparedness, outbreak response, Source: https://convenes.cochrane.org/sites/conv
	COVID-19 Simulation Exercises Packages World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO Open external link (651) Add to my MEDBOX To support countries’ preparedness effort on the COVID-19 outbreak, the Department of Health Security Preparedness at the WHO headquarters has developed various COVID-19 tabletop exercise (TTX) and Drills (DR) packages . If you need technical support to implement any of the exercises listed on this page, please contact your WHO country office or regional office focal point Tags: Training, outbreak preparedness, simulation, outbreak management, preparedness, Vaccination, public health measures, Source: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases
	Infection prevention and control (‎IPC)‎ in health-care facilities in the event of a surge or resurgence in cases of COVID-19 World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(46) Download (40) Add to my MEDBOX 16 Dec. 2021 This document is a prioritization toolkit providing a set of action steps to follow in the event of an impending surge in cases of COVID-19 in health-care facilities. The document provides a framework for action steps to be followed within 2-4 weeks of identification of a surge or resurgence of cases, and is accompanied by references to existing WHO resources to assist with managing each step. This document is intended for emergency operations centre focal persons for health facilities, incident managers, health-care managers and administrators, and infection prevention and control focal persons Tags: ipc, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), health-care workers, emergency aid, prévention, COVID-19, hospitals, health care system, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Lista de verificação para apoiar a reabertura das escolas e a preparação para ressurgimentos da COVID-19 ou crises de saúde pública semelhantes. Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde OPAS (2021) CC View PDF(31) Download (11) Add to my MEDBOX Checklist to support the reopening of schools and preparation for resurgences of COVID-19 or similar public health crises. O objetivo desta lista de verificação é reforçar a conformidade e a adesão às medidas de saúde pública delineadas no documento recentemente atualizado Considerations for school-related public health measures in the context of COVID-19 [Considerações para medidas de saúde pública relacionadas a escolas no contexto da COVID-19], considerando-se principalmente as crianças menores de 18 anos em contextos educacionais e em escolas com recursos limitados. A lista de verificação foi elaborada de acordo com os princípios e as abordagens das escolas promotoras de saúde.7,8 Este documento destaca a importância da coordenação multinível (ou seja, nos níveis escolar, subnacional e nacional) e de abordagens participativas e cocriadas pelas várias partes interessadas (por exemplo, trabalhadores das escolas, professores, alunos e pais). Esta abordagem visa a otimizar o cumprimento das medidas sociais e de saúde pública baseadas nos contextos sociais e culturais, conforme descrito no documento Considerations for implementing and adjusting public health and social measures in the context of COVID-19 [Considerações para a implementação e ajuste de medidas sociais e de saúde pública no contexto da COVID-19] Tags: COVID-19, Checklist, public health emergencies, reopening schools, preparation for resurgences, Brazil, Source: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/545

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