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	Atrapados en la tormenta de la COVID-19: la salud de la mujer, el niño y el adolescente en el contexto de la CSU y los ODS: informe 2020: resumen de orientación World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(2) Download (2) Add to my MEDBOX Mothers, newborns, young children and adolescents are losing 20 percent of their health and social services due to the COVID-19 pandemic says a Panel of senior global health experts. Tags: SDGs, UHC, universal health care, COVID-19, Women, child protection, protección de la infancia, salud materna, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Dans la tourmente de la pandémie de COVID-19: la santé de la femme, de l’enfant et de l’adolescent dans le contexte de la couverture sanitaire universelle et des objectifs de développement durable : r World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO View PDF(2) Download (2) Add to my MEDBOX Groupe indépendant d’experts de la redevabilité de l’initiative Chaque femme, chaque enfant. (‎2020)‎. Dans la tourmente de la pandémie de COVID-19: la santé de la femme, de l’enfant et de l’adolescent dans le contexte de la couverture sanitaire universelle et des objectifs de développement durable : rapport 2020 : résumé d'orientation Tags: SDGs, UHC, universal health care, COVID-19, Women, child protection, protection des enfants, santé des femmes, femmes, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	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
	Global spending on health: rising to the pandemic’s challenges World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(26) Download (12) Add to my MEDBOX The results of the report clearly show that in 2020, a year dominated by the emergence of COVID-19 and its associated health and economic crises, governments around the world rose to the challenge. Sharp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately 11% of global GDP). Government health spending generally increased and offset declines in out-of-pocket spending. Importantly, the rise in government health spending was part of a much broader fiscal response to the pandemic. In high income and upper-middle income countries social protection spending also increased sharply in as governments attempted to cushion populations from the economic impacts of COVID-19. In contrast to health and social protection, growth in education spending was relatively subdued. Countries face the further challenge of sustaining increased public spending on health and other social sectors in the face of deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and rising debt servicing. This also includes the challenge of sustaining external support for low income countries, which is essential for reducing ensuring poverty, ensuring access to health services and strengthening pandemic preparedness Tags: global health, challenges, COVID-19, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Contact tracing and quarantine in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 6 July 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(52) Download (30) Add to my MEDBOX Contact tracing for COVID-19 is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to someone who has been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while quarantine is the separation of contacts from other people after exposure to a probable or confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the context of growing global population immunity from COVID-19 vaccination and past SARS-CoV-2 infection, WHO recommends that identification, contact, quarantine and follow-up should be prioritized for individuals at high risk who have been in contact with a confirmed or probable case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, rather than targeting all contacts. This updated guidance also introduces shorter recommended quarantine periods, including the ability to further shorten quarantine through the use of testing. National and local health authorities should use risk-based approaches to contact tracing and quarantine that include reviewing and adjusting to their local circumstances and disease epidemiology, population immunity, their health system’s capacities, and risk tolerance Tags: COVID-19, Contact Tracing, Public health, Outbreak Control, Quarantine, omicron, Surveillance, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstream
	Special Focus: Update on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Variants of Concern World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(88) Download (44) Add to my MEDBOX Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19, 28 September 2022 Tags: covax, Vaccines, COVID-19, Supply, Access, variants, virus variants, mutation, Brazil, South Africa, Great Britain, Delta, Beta, Gamma, omicron, Vaccination, Source: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/
	Update 80: What we know about new COVID-19 Variants of Concern - the latest on the global situation & Omicron BA.4/5 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(42) Download (18) Add to my MEDBOX While COVID-19 virus continues to circulate and evolve, new variants are constantly emerging. Most of the current COVID-19 cases are driven by the circulation of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron. The COVID-19 vaccines are being updated with Omicron variants to provide broader immunity against circulating and emerging variants Tags: variant, SARS-CoV-2, omicron, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	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

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