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Make a Safety Plan for Yourself and Your Children

This poster, available in English and Siswati, targets women and children in Eswatini who may be experiencing violence at home. The key message highlights the importance of having a safety plan if women and children need to leave in a hurry because of abuse or violence.

Steps include identifying a trusted person and place to go, having a plan on how to get there and bringing key personal documents needed. It also provides contact details of local support services available in country.

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    If You Are Experiencing Any Form of Violence or Abuse

    This poster targets women and children who may be experience abuse or violence in the home.

    The key messages, in English and Siswati, encourage women to reach out to supportive family, friends, or neighbours for support, provide local emergency contact numbers to call, and to seek out locally available support services.

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      COVID-19 Digital Classroom Courses

      The COVID-19 course series is part of the COVID-19 Digital Classroom initiative. These courses are primarily designed for community-based health workers who practice in low- and middle-income countries. It covers a range of topics on COVID-19, including basic information on the virus and how to mitigate its public health effects. The course is designed to synthesize the most important, high-level information on COVID-19 from a variety of well-respected resources in a practical way. Many of the resources are cited for your reference and include documents and guidelines from the World Health Organization, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the UN, and many other reliable sources. While community-based health workers are the primary audience for this course series, the topics covered are relevant for everyone involved in responding to this pandemic worldwide.

      It is important to note that while these courses provide a generalized overview of COVID-19 and information on how to contain the spread of the disease, they cannot account for everything, especially as we are still learning day-to-day about the virus and its impact on our health and society. Therefore, please use this course as a guide, and continue to familiarize yourself with your context, including your country’s public health guidelines, in order to best customize the content we cover here for you and your community’s specific needs.

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        Questions and Answers: Adolescents, Youth and COVID-19

        These questions and answers were developed by the World Health Organization, UNESCO, UNFPA and UNICEF.

        Questions include:

        • Can adolescents catch COVID-19?
        • Can adolescents spread COVID-19 to other people even if they have mild or no symptoms?
        • Since there are few known cases of adolescents getting seriously ill with COVID-19, should I go to a health facility if I develop symptoms of the disease?
        • I am on medication for a chronic health condition. Should I change anything?
        • I am bored staying home. Since I am very unlikely to get severely ill even if I was to get COVID-19, why is it important that I follow the guidelines to prevent transmission such as keeping physical distance from other people?
        • I am feeling really anxious about COVID-19 and its impact on my life. What should I do?

        Source: Questions and Answers: Adolescents, Youth and COVID-19

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          Why Misinformation about COVID-19’s Origins Keeps Going Viral

          Despite the objections of experts to the publication of articles before they have been peer reviewed, this report states,that pre-reviewed articles and other types of misinformation have gained traction on social media because they take advantage of vulnerable human emotions. Those feelings can drive the viral spread of hoaxes.

          The author provides several reasons why misinformation spreads easily:

          • The way people react to emotional stories on social media is intense and predictable. Vitriol fills the replies, and false news then becomes 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the truth.
          • A complicated combination of psychological factors is at work whenever a reader decides to share news, and otherwise smart people can become part of the cycle of disinformation.
          • Readers cut corners, often sharing stories with grabby headlines before looking deeper into the story itself.
          • If you hear something twice, you’re more likely to think that it’s true than if you’ve only heard it once
          • Political news travels faster than the rest of false news

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            Why the Promotion of Family Planning Makes More Sense Now Than Ever Before?

            This article analyses the possible consequences of the pandemic on the rights of individuals and couples and endeavours to provide justifications for continued national commitment and investments in family planning.

            As sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are fundamental to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the author states that it is critical to focus on ensuring rights-based family planning, because it is intimately associated with fundamental human rights, addresses the issue of equity, equality and universality and provides valid and practical solutions to the vital economic quagmire that has unfolded as a consequence of this global crisis.

            Source: Why the Promotion of Family Planning Makes More Sense Now Than Ever Before?

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              Know What to do if You Have COVID-19 Symptoms or Have Been Exposed to COVID-19

              Washington state produced a series of animations in English and Spanish (15-, 30- and 60-second versions) and associated posters and social media content that repurposes the video content. The goal of these materials is to help people understand what they should do if they have COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19 – get tested, participate in contact tracing, stay home.

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                How to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety During Pregnancy

                Around the world, the rapid spread of the coronavirus and attempts to slow down the virus’s spread have led to dramatic shifts in day-to-day life and routines. Everyone feels uneasy by the news, not to mention the social distancing guidelines which require us to adopt self-isolation. These are stressful times. But for moms-to-be, there are additional concerns, too.

                Source: How to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety During Pregnancy

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