The COVID-19 Risk Communication Package For Healthcare Facilities

The purpose of this package is to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from infection and prevent potential spread of COVID-19 within healthcare facilities. It contains a series of simplified messages and reminders based on WHO’s more in-depth technical guidance on infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities in the context of COVID-19.

This package is intended for HCWs and healthcare facility management and can be shared through networks of healthcare professionals and directly to healthcare facilities. The Ministry of Health in your country may like to send this package to all government hospitals and healthcare facilities. Copies of the package should be sent to networks of private practitioners, medical, nursing and midwives associations for peer to peer sharing and posting as appropriate. Materials can be adapted to local languages and placed in healthcare facilities where they are readily available as reminders for HCWs.

Source: The COVID-19 Risk Communication Package For Healthcare Facilities

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    COVID-19 Guidance for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

    This page includes frequently asked questions about COVID-19 and pregnancy. The CDC provides information about what is known and unknown about pregnant women and infants and effects of COVID-19 during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.

    Source: COVID-19 Guidance for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

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      WASH’EM: Improving Handwashing Behaviour Change Programs in Humanitarian Crises

      Wash’Em is a process for rapidly designing evidence-based and context-adapted handwashing behavior change programs in emergencies.

      The Wash’Em process involves using 5 rapid assessment tools to understand behavior. Then the user can enter those findings into the Wash’Em software which will in turn provide tailored program recommendations.

      Source: WASH’EM: Improving Handwashing Behaviour Change Programs in Humanitarian Crises

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        What People Living with HIV Need to Know about HIV and COVID-19

        COVID-19 is a serious disease and all people living with HIV should take all recommended preventive measures to minimize exposure to, and prevent infection by, the virus that causes COVID-19. As in the general population, older people living with HIV or people living with HIV with heart or lung problems may be at a higher risk of becoming infected with the virus and of suffering more serious symptoms.

        This brochure outlines precautions that people living with HIV and key populations should follow to prevent COVID-19 infection.

        Source: What People Living with HIV Need to Know about HIV and COVID-19

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          Guidance for the Homeless

          This interim guidance is based on what is currently known about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will update this interim guidance as needed and as additional information becomes available.

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            Lancet Coronavirus Updates

            To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close, The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. All of our COVID-19 content is free to access. You can also sign up to be kept up to date on Lancet COVID-19 content.

            Source: https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

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