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A Guide to WHO’s Guidance on COVID-19

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Since January 2020, WHO has published more than 100 documents about COVID-19. Of these, more than half are detailed technical guidance, on how to find and test cases, how to provide safe and appropriate care for people depending on the severity of their illness, how to trace and quarantine contacts, how to prevent transmission from one person to another, how to protect health care workers, and how to help communities to respond appropriately.

This page offers a summary of some of the documents WHO has developed for COVID-19 and how they can be used.

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    An Exploration of How Fake News is Taking over Social Media and Putting Public Health at Risk

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    This article reports on a small study which attempted to identify the types and sources of COVID‐19 misinformation.

    The authors identified and analysed 1225 pieces of COVID‐19 fake news stories taken from fact‐checkers, myth‐busters and COVID‐19 dashboards.

    The study concludes that the COVID‐19 infodemic is full of false claims, half backed conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific therapies, regarding the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, origin and spread of the virus. Fake news is pervasive in social media, putting public health at risk. The scale of the crisis and ubiquity of the misleading information require that scientists, health information professionals and journalists exercise their professional responsibility to help the general public identify fake news stories. They should ensure that accurate information is published and disseminated.

    Source: An Exploration of How Fake News is Taking over Social Media and Putting Public Health at Risk

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      Making of No-Cost Face Masks at Home to Prevent the Spread of the Coronavirus

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      A 3-minute video has been uploaded on YouTube entitled “Making of No-Cost Face Masks at Home to Prevent the Spread of the Coronavirus”. It has been uploaded separately in 12 other major Indian languages thus enabling the free face mask message to be understood throughout rural and urban India, and have been designed specifically for poor and lower middle class households, including its illiterate members.

      These short videos demonstrate how these vulnerable families can easily make no-cost face masks/coverings at home, use them hygienically and observe related precautions. They can be used by all those working in government agencies, and NGOs in health, community and adult education/school programmes and any awareness-raising activities related to Covid-19.

      The list of the video in 12 major Indian languages is below.

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        SBC for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health during COVID-19: Technical Brief

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        This technical brief includes important considerations, messages, and resources to support country programs in adapting social and behavior change (SBC) programming for maternal, newborn, and child health in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.

        Source: SBC for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health during COVID-19: Technical Brief

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          Guidance on SBC for Nutrition During COVID-19: Technical Brief

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          This short guide includes important considerations, messaging, and resources to support country programs in adapting nutrition Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.

          Source: Guidance on SBC for Nutrition During COVID-19: Technical Brief

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            How to Greet Friends after Lockdown

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            These two COVID-19 safety posters were created to illustrate the do’s and don’ts of greeting friends after lockdown.

            The posters outline appropriate greetings, such as: waving, bowing, nodding and touching elbows. These greetings have little to no contact and therefore reduce each person’s risk of contracting the novel coronavirus.

            Source: How to Greet Friends after Lockdown

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              How to Protect Yourself in the Infodemic?

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              Sharing unverified information during the COVID-19 pandemic can be dangerous, unhealthy, and make our life more confusing. UNESCO and the World Health Organization are calling out this Infodemic and calling on you to be on the frontline for truth. It’s easy. Watch the video for the simple actions we can all take on how to identify false information, verify trusted sources, and help ourselves and loved ones to stay safe.

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                Designing COVID-19 Materials for Low Literate Settings

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                This website offers tips and tools for creating COVID-19 materials for low-literate audiences.

                It provides examples of materials, offers a checklist for making sure that materials meet the criteria for low literate audiences, and offers an assessment of one’s own materials to check for reading level.

                Source: Designing COVID-19 Materials for Low Literate Settings

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                  Smoking and COVID-19

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

                  1. Risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2
                  2. Hospitalization with COVID-19
                  3. 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

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                    Key Messages: COVID-19 and Primary Health Care

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                    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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