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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Online Course

The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent.

In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in their communities.

The course will also cover several important ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Finally, the course will identify some of the most common barriers to contact tracing efforts — along with strategies to overcome them.

Source: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Online Course

WHO Advice for Home-Based Care of COVID-19

August 31, 2020/in Clinical/Technical Guidance World Health Organization Global Arabic, English, Español, Français, Mandarin Chinese (中文), Pyccкий COVID-19 Response, Vulnerable Populations Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This page includes guidance for the public on home-based care practices for those who have tested positive for COVID-19 or those who have come in contact with others who have tested positive. It was originally published in March 2020 and then updated in August 2020. This is the latest version.

The updates include:

Considerations regarding the IPC requirements for the household to be suitable for caring for COVID-19 patients in the home
Clinical monitoring and treatment of COVID-19 patients at home
Waste management in the home setting in the context of COVID-19
An appendix on the effective implementation of home-care policies

Source: WHO Advice for Home-Based Care of COVID-19

COVID-19 Training of Trainers Curriculum

August 24, 2020/in Training/Education Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, United States Agency for International Development Guyana English Engagement, Prevention, Risk Communication and Messaging Communities, Health Workers and Facilities/by Shane Harper

This is a training curriculum developed for Breakthrough ACTION Guyana Regional Support Coordinators to appropriately recruit and train Community Volunteer Facilitators to disseminate messages within their communities.

Source: COVID-19 Training of Trainers Curriculum

How Should Community Health Workers in Fragile Contexts be Supported: Qualitative Evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo

August 17, 2020/in News and Updates Human Resources for Health DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone English Vulnerable Populations Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

Community health workers (CHWs) are critical players in fragile settings, where staff shortages are particularly acute, health indicators are poor and progress towards Universal Health Coverage is slow. Like other health workers, CHWs need support to contribute effectively to health programmes and promote health equity.

Yet the evidence base of what kind of support works best is weak. The authors present evidence from three fragile settings—Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo on managing CHWs, and synthesise recommendations for best approaches to support this critical cadre.

Source: How Should Community Health Workers in Fragile Contexts be Supported: Qualitative Evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo

14 Actions You Can Take Today to Adapt Your Program for COVID-19

August 10, 2020/in Web Resources Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Knowledge SUCCESS, United States Agency for International Development Global English Family Planning, Other health in COVID-19 context Health Workers and Facilities, Multiple, Researchers, Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

This interactive collection from Knowledge SUCCESS synthesizes the major COVID-19 global guidelines and guidance documents into 14 concrete actions that programs can take today to ensure continued voluntary family planning and reproductive health care. Each action links to related resources to help you get started. Features resources from WHO, Breakthrough ACTION, FIGO, HIPs, RHSC, AFP, and others.

Source: 14 Actions You Can Take Today to Adapt Your Program for COVID-19

COVID-19 Kenya – Clinical Guidance and Job Aid Tracker

August 5, 2020/in Clinical/Technical Guidance, Tools, Training/Education Kenya Ministry of Health, USAID Kenya Kenya English, Kiswahili Healthcare, Prevention, Symptoms Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This resource, produced by the Kenya Ministry of Health in partnership with USAID, tracks technical guidance about COVID-19 and lists useful job aids for health workers. The tracker offers a brief description of each piece of guidance/job aid, a link to where it can be found, and the topic which it covers.

Source: COVID-19 Kenya – Clinical Guidance and Job Aid Tracker

COVID-19 Kenya – Knowledge Sharing Tracker

August 5, 2020/in App, Clinical/Technical Guidance, Technical Briefs, Tools, Training/Education Kenya Ministry of Health, Other partners, USAID Kenya Kenya English, Kiswahili Healthcare, Prevention, Research/Monitoring and Evaluation Health Workers and Facilities, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This resource, produced by the Kenya Ministry of Health in partnership with USAID, tracks reports, presentations, documents, and other tools which are being accumulated as new information about COVID-19 in Kenya is published. Several topics include: gender, PWD, informal settlement, COVID response/survey, wildlife, malnutrition, etc.

Source: COVID-19 Kenya – Knowledge Sharing Tracker

COVID-19 Digital Classroom

July 21, 2020/in Web Resources COVID-19 Digital Classroom Global English Handwashing, Masks, Prevention, Social/Physical Distancing Communities, Health Workers and Facilities/by Shane Harper

The COVID-19 Digital Classroom is a collective of international organizations who wish to provide access to high-quality healthcare.

Since populations around the world need rapid, coordinated, and focused support to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, patients in countries with limited preparedness and response resources are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Sharp increases in COVID-19 caseloads are likely to overwhelm health systems in countries already facing shortages of nurses, physicians, and other health workers.

Community-based health workers need access to high-quality and easy-to-use information that will help increase their ability to treat and support patients and to deliver health services safely.

The COVID-19 Digital Classroom is leveraging digital technologies and existing content distribution channels to ensure every health worker has the information they need to help their own communities, wherever in the world they are providing care, from city centers to the last mile.

Source: COVID-19 Digital Classroom

Smoking and COVID-19

July 15, 2020/in Technical Briefs World Health Organization Global English Other health in COVID-19 context Health Workers and Facilities, Policy Makers/by Shane Harper

This review assesses the available peer-reviewed literature on the association between smoking and COVID-19, including:

Risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2
Hospitalization with COVID-19
Severity of COVID-19 outcomes amongst hospitalized patients such as admission into intensive care units (ICU), use of ventilators and death.

Source: Smoking and COVID-19

Key Messages: COVID-19 and Primary Health Care

July 15, 2020/in Tools, Web Resources Primary Health Care Performance Initiative Global English Other health in COVID-19 context, Prevention Health Workers and Facilities, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

This document provides members of the primary health care (PHC) community with foundational messages to use in communication and advocacy efforts about how and why countries, global decision-makers and donors can – and must – center PHC as a key component of the COVID-19 response in the weeks and months to come.

Source: Key Messages: COVID-19 and Primary Health Care

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