Oxygen is an essential medicine required at all levels of the health care system; only high quality, medical-grade oxygen should be given to patients. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants are a source of medical-grade oxygen. This document provides technical specifications as th...e minimum requirements that a PSA Oxygen Plant must meet for use for the administration of medical-grade oxygen.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far reaching impacts, well beyond the health crisis and needs, with the most severe impacts experienced in the poorest countries and those most vulnerable to humanitarian crises including natural disasters, such as Nepal.
As of 21 May 2020, 4.8 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported globally. In South America, COVID-19 was first detected on 26 February 2020, when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo.
This revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020.
How to respond to Covid19 pandemic in West and Central Africa
Les médecines traditionnelles à base de plantes ou phytomédicaments jouent un rôle important dans la gestion des maladies en Afrique et sont largement utilisées comme médecines alternatives. Il est donc important d'évaluer à la fois la sécurité et l'efficacité de ces actifs botaniques ind...igènes en médecine avant d'approuver leur utilisation par la communauté médicale et le public.
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Updated version – September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone. Globally, millions of people have been infected with the virus, while hundreds of thousands have lost their lives. In Moldova, the pandemic is placing an ever-increasing pressure on the health care and social protectio...n systems, causing major disruptions to economic processes and limitations to social life, deepening inequalities and proving how vulnerable we are.
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The report finds that, as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries. More reliable, age-disaggregated data on infect...ion, deaths and testing is needed to better understand how the crisis impacts the most vulnerable children and guide the response
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в данном трехмодульном учебном пакете обосновывается необходимость скоординированного глобального плана реагирования на вспышку COVID-19. Даются также необходимые ...указания по использованию Руководства по оперативному планированию для поддержки готовности и мер реагирования на страновом уровне. В этом руководстве описаны первоочередные шаги и действия по основным направлениям обеспечения готовности и мер реагирования в области общественного здравоохранения, которые должны быть включены в планы стран по обеспечению готовности и реагирования. Эти рекомендации соответствуют ранее опубликованному Стратегическому плану по обеспечению готовности и реагирования на COVID-19 (СПГР). К концу этого курса назначенные ведущие специалисты СГООН по планированию и соответствующие партнеры должны уметь оценивать и устранять пробелы в потенциале реагирования на вспышку COVID-19.
COVID-19: Operational Planning Guidelines and COVID-19 Partners Platform to support country preparedness and response
also available in: English - Português - français - 中文 - Bahasa Indonesia - العربية - Español
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The document presents an assessment developed by both institutions as a contribution to the prioritization of education in national response plans to the health emergency and future recovery strategies. "Countries have deployed various response and recovery plans in which education needs to be incor...porated as a central element," the report says, "not only to ensure an education response, but to achieve an equitable, inclusive and sustainable recovery”.
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The National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 vaccines (NDVP): Standard Review Form (SRF) is an excel-based resource used by Regional Review Committees to assess NDVPs submitted to the Partners Platform. The SRF enables countries to prepare their NDVPs for the review process and supports... regions in conducting a consistent and uniform assessment of the submitted NDVPs. This resource should be used in conjunction with the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 vaccines (NDVP): Submission and Review Process document.
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1 February 2021 to 31 January 2022
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’s Country Readiness and Delivery workstream has released guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan (NDVP) for COVID-19 vaccines. This course is intended to help national and sub-national focal points in countries develop the ND...VP and prepare for COVID-19 vaccine introduction.
Available in English and Macedonian
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Formulaire standard d'evaluation
Available in English, French, Spanisch, Chinese, Arabic and Russian
The 2021 COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for AFR serves as a regional guide for a holistic public health response to COVID‑19 at regional, national and sub-national levels. The 2021
SPRP:
1. Builds upon the lessons learnt from the implementation of the 2020 SPRP and outl...ines a regional preparedness, response and recovery strategy for COVID‑19.
2. Has been adapted to reflect the Regional context including COVID-19 vaccination. It also considers epidemiological changes and recommen-dations emerging from the evaluation report of the 2020 SPRP4.
3. Highlights to Member States strategic preparedness and response actions to be sustained at national and sub-national levels, as well as the critical inter-agency and partner support required.
4. provides the indicative resource requirements to reinforce WHO planned interventions in the African Region to enhance countries’ capacities to suppress transmission, save lives and mitigate the impact of the pandemic on people and health systems.
5. Provides a road map for mitigating potential resurgence in the Region as economies reopen and ensure country level continuity of other essential health services.
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Guideline for the development of a national plan for the operationalization of vaccination against COVID-19
This brief summarizes the lessons learned across Europe on the redevelopment of contaminated sites as a part of urban planning and renewal. Specifically, it aims to provide information on the health and environmental impacts to be considered during site redevelopment projects, and to identify good p...ractice and relevant local experiences to support effective, healthy and sustainable redevelopment of contaminated sites. As such, this brief offers key messages to support the work of local decision-makers, planners, practitioners, researchers and civil society organizations.
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