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Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
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Updated Interim guidance 29 July 2020
The provision of safe water, sanitation and waste management and hygienic conditions is essential for preventing and for protecting human health during all infectious disease outbreaks, including of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Ensuring evidenced-based ...
Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
recommended
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging health systems across the world. Rapidly increasing demand for care of people with COVID-19 is compounded by fear, misinformation and limitations on the movement of people and supplies that disrupt the delivery of frontline health care for all people...
This g...
Cuidados de saúde comunitários, incluindo divulgação e campanhas, no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19
recommended
Os tomadores de decisão precisam fazer escolhas difíceis para garantir que a COVID-19 e outros problemas urgentes, e contínuos, de saúde pública sejam abordados, minimizando os riscos para os profissionais de saúde e comunidades. Conforme estabelecido na Conferência Mundial de Astana sobre At...
This document provides a decision-making framework for implementation of mass treatment interventions, active case-finding campaigns and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. A two-step approach is proposed: a risk–benefit assessment, to ...
Strategies for managing acute shortages of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic
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This guidance provides considerations and a series of options that can be used to inform country strategies in managing any shortages of personal protective equipment.Re-use and reprocessing of single-use PPE must be a last resort temporary measure to be adopted until stocks are replenished. The WH...
الاستراتيجيات لإدارة النقص الحاد في معدات الحماية الشخصية خلال جائحة فيروس COVID-19
This guidance provides considerations and a series of options that can be used to inform country strategies in managing any shortages of personal prote...
This guidance provides considerations and a series of options that can be used to inform country strategies in managing any shortages of personal protective equipment.Re-use and reprocessing of single-use PPE must be a last resort temporary measure to be adopted until stocks are replenished. The WH...
16 June 2020
PAHO’s Smart Hospitals Project started in 2009 and has been implemented across nine countries in the Caribbean Region. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new lessons to be incorporated as part of Smart Retrofits. This document is intended to describe simple natural and...
Contact tracing is a key component of the COVID-19 response, particularly as societies begin to lift non-pharmaceutical interventions. However, it is a time-consuming and resource-intensive effort that depends on a trained and motivated workforce. Emergent digital contact tracing and quarantine (...
The Safer COVID-19 Response checklist has been produced for managers of health-care services, individual practitioners and health policymakers worried about the impact of violence against health-care workers, facilities and patients during the COVID-19 response. It provides a practical, actionable s...
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Guide de mise en œuvre à l’intention des Sociétés nationales de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
