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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 to Trust and How to Overcome COVID-19 Misinformation in Nigeria

September 2, 2020/in News and Updates Nigeria Health Watch Nigeria English Risk Communication and Messaging, Rumors and Misinformation Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

In Nigeria, as in many countries, social media has allowed anyone to post COVID-19 misinformation as truth and fact, while misleading the public and, in some cases, causing real damage.

This article reviews some of the major misinformation events in Nigeria during the pandemic and notes the steps being taken to correct that situation.

Source: Who to Trust and How to Overcome COVID-19 Misinformation in Nigeria

COVID-19 Care in India: The Course to Self-Reliance

August 31, 2020/in Reports and Studies The Lancet India, South Asia English COVID-19 Response, Risk Communication and Messaging Policy Makers, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

The public health response to COVID-19 in India has been highly centralized, resulting in a homogenous strategy applied across a sixth of the world’s population.

India was placed in a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020, with restrictions being relaxed in three phases since June. In May 2020, the prime minister called upon the Indian people to be self-reliant. The authors discuss opportunities to modify several aspects of the medical response to echo this sentiment.

They conclude that what is still needed is a plethora of low-tech solutions (especially facial coverings), adherence to science, and societal participation in caring for vulnerable people.

Source: COVID-19 Care in India: The Course to Self-Reliance

Immunizing the Public against Misinformation

August 31, 2020/in News and Updates World Health Organization Global English Risk Communication and Messaging, Rumors and Misinformation Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

Proliferating misinformation — even when the content is, in a best-case scenario, harmless — can have serious and even social and lethal health ramifications in the context of a global pandemic. In some countries, rumours about impending food scarcity prompted people to stockpile supplies early on in the epidemic and caused actual shortages.

This article is an interview with Tim Nguyen whose team manages the Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN), which is leading WHO work on managing infodemics.

Source: Immunizing the Public against Misinformation

Teaching Senior Citizens to Spot Misinformation

August 31, 2020/in News and Updates The New York Times Global English Risk Communication and Messaging, Rumors and Misinformation Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

This article explains that COVID-19 has made the topic of misinformation timely and urgent. Discerning reliable health information is especially a matter of life or death for older people who are more vulnerable to the virus, and showcases projects created to ameliorate the situation.

Tips to spot misinformation and avoid sharing it include evaluating whether news is from a known media outlet; noting the publication date, who wrote the content, and whether the author is reputable; checking if a website has a .gov, .edu, .org or .com suffix; and if a website is selling a product.

Source: Teaching Senior Citizens to Spot Misinformation

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: Simple Answers to Top Questions Risk Communication Field Guide Questions and Key Messages

August 31, 2020/in Clinical/Technical Guidance, Infographics, Posters, Web Resources Astho United States English Masks, Prevention, Risk Communication and Messaging, Social/Physical Distancing Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Shane Harper

This document, intended for SBC practitioners, is the fifth edition of COVID-19: Simple Answers to Top Questions. It is an updated version of the original document published on March 10, 2020. With the rapid evolution of knowledge and policy regarding COVID-19, future revisions will be produced on an ongoing basis.

The document is based on message maps and follows the belief that state health officials need both short and long answers. Messages are presented initially in no more than 3-5 short sentences and convey 3-5 key messages, ideally in the least number of words possible.

The approach is based on surveys showing that lead or front-page media and broadcast stories usually convey only the soundbite: 3-5 messages usually in less than 9 seconds for broadcast media or 27 words for print. Each primary message normally has 3 to 5 supporting messages that can be used when and where appropriate to provide context for the issue being mapped. A brief description of the message mapping strategy is in the Appendices. In the following pages, you will find 60+ top questions about COVID-19 answered with detailed message maps.

Source: COVID-19: Simple Answers to Top Questions Risk Communication Field Guide Questions and Key Messages

Timeline: WHO’s COVID-19 Response

August 31, 2020/in Fact Sheet, Web Resources World Health Organization Global English COVID-19 Response Policy Makers, Response Organizations/by Shane Harper

This timeline tells the story of WHO’s response to COVID-19, starting from the end of December 2019 to the present day.

The timeline breaks information down into the following categories, and within these, by regions of the world:

All actions
Information
Science
Leadership
Advice
Response
Resourcing

Source: Timeline: WHO’s COVID-19 Response

Maintaining Essential GBV Services during COVID-19

August 26, 2020/in Technical Briefs Pathfinder International Global English Gender, Gender-based Violence Policy Makers, Response Organizations/by wpengine

This document provides guidance on how to safely deliver gender-based violence (GBV) services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The document offer guidance to ministries of health, policymakers, service providers, and other implementing partners on how to continue to safely deliver GBV services during COVID-19. The evidence-based documents are drawn from data and guidance from the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This document is part of a series of technical guidance documents developed by Pathfinder that can be used to support the adaptation of essential sexual and reproductive health care during the COVID-19 pandemic or future airborne infectious disease outbreaks.

Source: Maintaining Essential GBV Services during COVID-19

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

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