This leaflet aims at guiding health workers though the very first days of an outbreak. It addresses the following questions:
Is this the beginning of an outbreak?
Is the patient suffering from cholera or shigella?
The leaflet also has sections on how to protect the community, how to t...reat patients and what to do if an outbreak is suspected.
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A range of learning resources for primary health care of the newborn are available
Summary of the main report: Direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 pandemic and response in South Asia .
It uses a series of exercises based on actual observed changes in services and intervention coverage to model impacts on mortality, hospitalizations, and ICU admissions due to COVID-19. It a...lso models the impact of nationwide stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19 on maternal and child mortality, educational attainment of children, and the region’s economy. The study focuses on South Asia’s six most populous countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and makes the case for interventions and strategies to minimise these indirect consequences.
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Due to Nepal’s difficult geographic structure, rapid urbanization, varied groundwater level, and increasing population the country is prone to earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires, lightning, hailstone, drought, epidemic, and other disasters. These disasters cause a huge
loss of li...fe and property every year.
In normal circumstances, persons with disabilities are at a higher risk than others. Hence, they may be more vulnerable and affected in an event of a disaster. Especially those with severe disabilities, women, children, and senior citizens are more at risk during disasters persons with disabilities must be kept at the forefront for disaster mitigation and
preparedness to protect them from disaster risk
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country brief, Syrian Arab Republic
Symptomatic pregnant women are at an increased risk of severe diseases and it might affect the foetus too. Hence, the COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for pregnant women.
Newborn Resuscitation Algorithm
Seit August 2021 empfiehlt die Ständige Impfkommission (STIKO) allen Kindern und Jugendlichen ab 12 Jahren die Corona-Schutzimpfung mit Comirnaty® von BioNTech/Pfizer. Seit Mitte Dezember können auch Kinder zwischen 5 und 11 Jahren mit dem darauf angepassten Impfstoff von BioNTech/Pfizer geimpft ...werden. Hier finden Sie alles zur Zulassung und der STIKO-Empfehlung sowie kindgerechte Dokumente und Hintergrundinformationen für den Alltag mit Kindern in der Pandemie.
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No publication date available; Accessed January 24th, 2022