This document aims to provide guidance to healthcare facilities and healthcare providers in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) on preparedness and infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for the management of possible and confirmed cases of COVID-1...9 in healthcare settings, including long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In addition, this document addresses the management of clinical diagnostic specimens at laboratories in the EU/EEA. This is the sixth update of the ECDC guidance on ‘Infection prevention and control and preparedness for COVID-19 in healthcare settings’, and replaces the document dated 6 October 2020.
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Die Johanniter haben im Rahmen ihrer Aktivitäten im Bereich Flüchtlingshilfe und Integration allgemeine, niedrigschwellige Informationen zum Thema Corona in verschiedenen Sprachen bereitgestellt. Diese dienen als Ergänzung zu den offiziellen Informationsmaterialien der Bundeszentrale für gesundh...eitliche Aufklärung u.a. Die Informationsblätter wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ethno-medizinischen Zentrum e.V. Hannover übersetzt und werden bei Bedarf aktualisiert.
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Das Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten Berlin (LAF) hat bereits zu Beginn der Pandemie im März 2020 mit Audio-Podcasts in verschiedenen Sprachen die Geflüchteten in Unterkünften über das Coronavirus informiert. Nun liegen angesichts der zweiten Welle der Pandemie aktualisierte Versionen ...der Podcasts mit wichtigen Hinweisen zum richtigen Verhalten und zum Thema Quarantäne in 13 Sprachen vor. Die Podcasts stehen unter hier zum Anhören bereit. Der Link kann über Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp oder Telegram in der jeweiligen Sprach-Gemeinschaft weiter verschickt werden.
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at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Council
23 Febur. 2021
J of Pharm Policy and Pract 14, 27 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00309-8
The report highlights key trends and developments in laws affecting people living with HIV and key populations in Asia and the Pacific over the five-year period 2014–2019. It updates the legal and policy review conducted in 2016 for UNAIDS, UNDP and the United Nations Economic and Social Commissio...n for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). A database of laws of the 38 Member States of ESCAP was created as part of this review. The database identifies laws that are either punitive or enabling for people living with HIV and key populations in Asia and the Pacific.
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Technical Note
Recently, the approach to hazardous events has undergone a considerable shift, away from reactive activities focused on managing and responding to events and towards a more proactive process of emergency and disaster risk management (DRM). The ultimate goal of this shift in focus is ...to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks, a process known as disaster risk reduction (DRR), while strengthening individual, community, societal and global resilience.
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The consolidated guidelines are complemented by an operational handbook which is designed to assist with implementation of the WHO recommendations by Member States, technical partners and others who are involved in the management of patients with DR-TB. The WHO Operational Handbook on Tuberculosis, ...Module 4: Treatment - Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment provides practical guidance on how to put in place the recommendations at the scale needed to achieve national and global impact.
The operational handbook provides practical information and tools that complement the recommendations in the guidelines. The strategies described in the operational handbook are based on the latest WHO recommendations which were formulated by Guideline Development Groups using the GRADE approach. In many cases however, the recommendations in their current form lacked sufficient clinical and programmatic detail, which is important for implementation. This operational handbook complements the guidelines with practical advice based on best practices and knowledge from the fields such as pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, microbiology, pharmacovigilance and clinical and programmatic management.
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This document facilitate the preparation of a risk communication and community engagement strategy for vaccination against COVID-19. Its goal is to help to strengthen the communication and planning capacities of the ministries or secretariats of health and other agencies in charge of communicating ...about new COVID-19 vaccines in the Americas.
Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
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The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared. Our aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people’s lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world ha...ve dealt with the pandemic. In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others.
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“Guide to facilitate the implementation of the WHO/UNICEF “Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines” for Africa
A new brief published by the IFRC and Climate Centre today details the adverse impacts of climate change on human health and provides more detail on the second of four pillars of action in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement ambitions on climate.
This booklet presents key messages for action, summarized from a set of
chapters on different environmental health issues.
28 September 2021
Less than half of required funding has been provided globally with dramatic consequences as
hundreds of thousands more die from TB
J Glob Health 2021;11:03082.
Combined questionnaire Core