Title: Health system response to COVID-19 in the context of internally displaced persons, refugees, migrants and returnees in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

URL: https://applications.emro.who.int/docs/EMCSR279E.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 17-page document details how communities on the move such as refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, and returnees remain highly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19, and provides guidance to countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region and partners for the prevention and management of COVID-19 outbreaks in internally displaced person, refugee, migrant, and returnee communities.

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Title: Surface sampling of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): A practical "how to" protocol for health care and public health professionals

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331058/WHO-2019-nCoV-Environment_protocol-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 26-page protocol has been designed to determine (viable) virus presence and persistence on fomites in various locations where a patient infected with COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) is currently receiving care or being isolated, and to understand how this may relate to COVID-19 transmission events in these settings. It is therefore important that it is done as part of a comprehensive outbreak investigation and that information obtained by environmental studies is combined with the results of epidemiological, laboratory, and sequence data from COVID-19 patient investigations.

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Title: Health workers exposure risk assessment and management in the context of COVID-19 virus

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331340/WHO-2019-nCov-HCW_risk_assessment-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Operational Considerations for Managing COVID-19 Cases or Outbreak in Aviation

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331488/WHO-2019-nCoV-Aviation-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Operational Considerations for Case Management of COVID-19 in Health Facility and Community

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331492/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_operations-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Infection Prevention and Control guidance for Long-Term Care Facilities in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331508/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC_long_term_care-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Laboratory testing strategy recommendations for COVID-19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331509/WHO-COVID-19-lab_testing-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Management of ill travellers at Points of Entry (international airports, seaports, and ground crossings) in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331512/WHO-2019-nCoV-POEmgmt-2020.2-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331590/WHO-2019-nCoV-immunization_services-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page document provides guiding principles and considerations to support countries in their decision-making regarding provision of immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic and is endorsed by the World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization.

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Title: Safe Ramadan practices in the context of the COVID-19 - Interim Guidance

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331767/WHO-2019-nCoV-Ramadan-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page guidance document highlights public health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic for social and religious practices and gatherings during Ramadan that can be applied across different national contexts.

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Title: Technical specifications for invasive and non-invasive ventilators for COVID-19 - Interim Guidance

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331792/WHO-2019-nCoV-Clinical-Ventilator_Specs-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The technical specifications in this 10-page document describe the minimum requirements that invasive and non-invasive ventilators must comply with to ensure quality, safety, and effectiveness when used for the management of COVID-19.

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Title: COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for competent authorities responsible for national food safety control systems - Interim Guidance

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331842/WHO-2019-nCoV-Food_Safety_authorities-2020.1-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: COVID-19 and the measures taken to mitigate the global impact of the pandemic have disrupted food production and food supply chains worldwide. This five-page guidance document, written with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, provides advice and recommendations for national food safety authorities to optimize food control functions and prioritize critical services that preserve the integrity of food safety systems.

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Title: Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for the COVID-19 virus - Interim Guidance

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331846/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC_WASH-2020.3-eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This interim guidance, developed with UNICEF, supplements the infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO guidance on water, sanitation, and healthcare waste relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses. It is intended for water and sanitation practitioners and providers, and healthcare providers who want to know more about water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) risks and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: WHO SAGE values framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/334299/WHO-2019-nCoV-SAGE_Framework-Allocation_and_prioritization-2020.1-eng.pdf?ua=1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 14-page Values Framework offers guidance globally on the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines between countries, and guidance nationally on the prioritization of groups for vaccination within countries while supply is limited. It has been endorsed by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE).

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Title: Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/85240/9789241548595_eng.pdf

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: WHO R&D Blueprint: informal consultation on prioritization of candidate therapeutic agents for use in novel coronavirus 2019 infection, Geneva, Switzerland, 24 January 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/330680

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page document details the objectives of a consultation held on January 24, 2020, on candidate therapeutic agents for use in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection: to outline criteria that could inform the evidence-based selection of therapeutic agents for clinical trials; review and critically appraise the existing evidence regarding different investigational therapeutics agents; and decide on the more promising candidate therapeutics, based on currently available evidence that can be evaluated in humans infected with COVID-19 to reduce mortality and disease progression.

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URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331589

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document is intended for Ministry of Health and other government officials responsible for COVID-19 and influenza surveillance, and summarizes the operational considerations for leveraging influenza surveillance systems to incorporate COVID-19 testing. It outlines considerations for how countries with influenza systems can add COVID-19 testing to routine influenza epidemiological and virologic surveillance as outlined in the Global Epidemiological Surveillance Standards for Influenza.

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Title: Guidance for laboratories shipping specimens to WHO reference laboratories that provide confirmatory testing for COVID-19 virus: interim guidance, 31 March 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331639

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In order to expedite the shipment of clinical samples from patients with suspected COVID-19 virus infection from the country of collection to one of the World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratories providing confirmatory testing for COVID-19, a shipment mechanism has been established. This two-page document, updated on March 31, 2020, provides detailed instructions for shipping.

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Title: COVID-19 and violence against women: what the health sector/system can do, 7 April 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331699

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document discusses how COVID-19 can exacerbate risks of violence for women. It details the important role that health systems have in ensuring that services for women who have experienced violence remain accessible during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what can be done to address violence against women during the COVID-19 response.

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Title: Clinical care for severe acute respiratory infection: toolkit: COVID-19 adaptation

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331736

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 196-page toolkit is intended for clinicians working in intensive care units in low- and middle-income countries, managing adult and pediatric patients with severe forms of acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and septic shock. It is a hands-on practical guide to be used by healthcare professionals involved in critical care management during the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of influenza (seasonal or avian influenza), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), or other emerging respiratory viral epidemics.

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Title: Global COVID-19: clinical platform: novel coronavius (‎COVID-19)‎: rapid version, 8 April 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331768

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Household transmission investigation protocol for coronavirus disease 2019 (‎COVID-19)‎, 23 March 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332040

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Data collected using the investigation protocol in this 52-page document will be critical to refine recommendations for case definitions and surveillance; characterize key epidemiological features of COVID-19; help understand spread, severity, spectrum of disease, and impact on the community; and inform guidance for application of countermeasures such as case isolation and contact tracing. It will investigate all household contacts of confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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Title: Surveillance strategies for COVID-19 human infection: interim guidance, 10 May 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332051

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides an overview of surveillance strategies that Member States should consider as part of comprehensive national surveillance for COVID-19. It emphasizes the need to adapt and reinforce existing national systems where appropriate and to scale up surveillance capacities as needed.

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Title: Protocol for assessment of potential risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (‎COVID-19)‎ among health workers in a health care setting, 23 March 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332071

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 15 May 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332096

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19. Environmental surfaces are more likely to be contaminated with the COVID-19 virus in healthcare settings where certain medical procedures are performed. This advice also applies to alternative settings for isolation of persons with COVID-19 experiencing uncomplicated and mild illness, including households and non-traditional facilities.

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Title: Calibrating long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 : principles and facilitation tools

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332099

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 31-page document discusses how countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region have implemented strict non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), aiming to interrupt or reduce transmission. Some of these measures have significant socioeconomic costs and may negatively impact the physical and emotional well-being of populations. The document proposes guiding principles and five steps for countries to implement an NPI strategy that balances epidemiological benefit and socioeconomic costs.

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Title: Framework for decision-making: implementation of mass vaccination campaigns in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 22 May 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332159

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document outlines a common framework for decision-making for the conduct of preventive and outbreak response campaigns in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; and offers principles to consider when deliberating the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns for prevention of increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and high-impact diseases among susceptible populations.

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Title: Efficacy of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia - based on information as at 12 June 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332935

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page rapid policy brief aims to summarize relevant research about the use of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, facilitating the findings' use in decision-making. It summarizes search and research methods, and policy findings.

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Title: Selecting digital contact tracing and quarantine tools for COVID-19 : guiding principles and considerations for a stepwise approach

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333045

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The set of guiding principles and stepwise approach outlined in this 16-page document aim to support Member States throughout their decision-making process of identifying, assessing, adopting, and adapting emergent digital contact tracing and quarantine (DCTQ) tools for COVID-19, which offer the potential to complement and strengthen conventional contact tracing initiatives on an unprecedented scale.

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Title: Guidance on maintaining a safe and adequate blood supply during the coronavirus disease 2019 (‎COVID-19)‎ pandemic and on the collection of COVID-19 convalescent plasma: interim guidance, 10 July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333182

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides interim guidance on the management of the blood supply in response to the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including recommendations on collection of COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

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Title: Substance use considerations during COVID19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333463

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document discusses why people should under no circumstances use any type of substances as a means of preventing or treating COVID-19 infection. It provides guidance for different target groups that have a responsibility to steer clear of substance use throughout this pandemic and beyond, help others do the same, and get the help they need, in case they are using substances or suffering from substance use disorders.

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Title: Excessive screen use and gaming considerations during COVID19

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333467

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document discusses the health risks of excessive screen time or gaming to cope with the stressful COVID-19 situation or to pass time when in isolation, quarantine, or lockdown. It provides recommendations for parents, school authorities, and health and social care providers.

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Title: Considerations for implementing mass treatment, active case-finding and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim guidance, 27 July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333499

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document outlines a decision-making framework for implementation of mass treatment interventions, active case-finding campaigns, and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It formulates considerations aimed at providing guidance to relevant health authorities, NTD program managers, and their supporting partners.

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Title: Survey tool and guidance: rapid, simple, flexible behavioural insights on COVID-19: 29 July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333549

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 42-page document provides guidance to Member States in the WHO European Region that wish to conduct behavioral insights studies related to COVID-19. This tool is evidence-informed; can be regularly applied; is flexible to adjust to the changing situation; and follows high ethical standards.

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Title: Considerations for quarantine of contacts of COVID-19 cases: interim guidance, 19 August 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333901

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is an update of COVID-19 interim guidance published on March 19, 2020. It provides updated guidance for the implementation of quarantine, as well as additional guidance on ventilation and on the care of children in quarantine.

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Title: COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plan: strengthening the collective response and accelerating readiness in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: July 2020 edition

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333943

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 34-page document has been developed by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean to establish a regional plan of action to support countries in rapidly scaling up capacities for prevention, early detection, and response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The plan summarizes the main public health measures that WHO will support and prioritize in order to facilitate an effective response in countries.

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Title: Exploration of COVID-19 health-care worker cases : implications for action

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333945

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page guidance describes a system to detect healthcare worker COVID-19 cases, investigate avenues of infections, and guide appropriate responses at the facility and public health levels based on the investigation findings. It is intended for national and sub-national public health authorities and healthcare facility managers.

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Title: COVID-19 essential supplies forecasting tool overview of the structure, methodology, and assumptions used: interim guidance, 25 August 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/333983

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides technical details and methodological explanations on the structure of the COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT). It is intended to provide information that will allow users to a) trace and understand the calculations, assumptions, and limitations of ESFT; and b) modify these assumptions for different contexts or use cases.

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Title: Responding to non-communicable diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: state of the evidence on COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases: a rapid review

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334143

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 20-page document provides an initial review of emerging information (as July 2, 2020) on the relations among COVID-19, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and NCD risk factors. It demonstrates that people living with NCDs are at higher risk of severe COVID-19-related illness and death and that there are limited data for estimating risk. It was published with the United Nations Development Programme, and the UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs.

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Title: Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on control of vaccine-preventable diseases: a health risk management approach focused on catch-up vaccination

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334248

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic may cause disruptions in the provision of routine immunization services, but this risk can be reduced if national immunization programs take measures to minimize service interruptions, as well as plan for and implement catch-up vaccination. This 11-page document aims to support national decision-makers and immunization programs ineffectively integrating the necessary response measures into existing programmatic areas.

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Title: COVID-19 pandemic response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, progress report of the incident management support team, January-July 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334319

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 68-page report summarizes a six-month review of the Incident Management Support Team (IMST) response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. A theme running throughout is the IMST's role in coordination of the COVID-19 response, particularly in bringing together regional partners and driving forward the operational response.

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Title: Monitoring and evaluation framework for the COVID-19 response in the WHO African Region

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334344

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 27-page monitoring and evaluation framework targets ministries of health, WHO country offices, and the Regional Office, and aims to assess national, country, and regional response performance and progress, measured against country national plans, response efforts, and the broader WHO COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan.

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Title: Pandemic influenza preparedness framework: progress report, 1 January - 30 June 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/335937

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 32-page issue of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness progress report was developed as the world continues to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the many challenges brought on by this global crisis, much was nonetheless achieved to continue the work to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and readers will be able to learn about some of the happenings on the ground in a new section entitled "Stories from the field."

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Title: Strategic considerations in preparing for deployment of COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination in the WHO European Region, 9 October 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/335940

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 11-page document outlines the key strategic considerations for ministries of health, their agencies, national immunization technical advisory groups/committees, and relevant public and private sector authorities in the WHO European Region in preparing for deployment of COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination in their countries. The objective is to allow Member States to identify and address any critical gaps for effective deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Title: Health system considerations: when influenza meets COVID-19: preparedness and response measures when COVID-19, influenza and acute respiratory infections coincide in the WHO European Region

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/336165

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 30-page document provides preparedness and response measures to take when COVID-19, influenza, and acute respiratory infections coincide in the WHO European Region. It is divided into seven sections: Prevention and health system preparedness; Risk communication and community engagement; Immunization; Surveillance; Clinical management of clusters and cases; Needs of special settings and groups; and Public health and social measures, including infection prevention and control.

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Title: Preparing countries for COVID-19 vaccine introduction, 21 September 2020

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/336187

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: There are immediate actions that countries can take to prepare for COVID-19 vaccines. This two-page document provides a brief summary of pre-planning actions that all countries can begin working on immediately.

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Title: Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women: taking action and generating evidence

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/44350

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: Global Surveillance for COVID-19 Disease Caused by Human Infection with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1272502/retrieve

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Modes of Transmission of Virus Causing COVID-19: Implications for IPC (Infection Prevention and Control) Precaution Recommendations

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1273262/retrieve

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page document discusses modes of transmission of the virus causing COVID-19, and why the World Health Organization continues to recommend droplet and contact precautions for those people caring for COVID-19 patients, and contact and airborne precautions for circumstances and settings in which aerosol-generating procedures are performed.

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Title: Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Acute Respiratory Infection Clinical Characterisation Data Tool

URL: https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2020/03/ISARIC_COVID-19_CRF_V1.3_24Feb2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 12-page case record form (CRF) for 2019 the novel coronavirus is intended to provide member states with a standardized approach to collect clinical data in order to better understand the natural history of disease and describe clinical phenotypes and treatment interventions (i.e., clinical characterization). By using one standardized clinical data tool, there is potential for clinical data from around the world to be aggregated, in order to learn more to inform the public health response and prepare for large-scale clinical trials.

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Title: Global COVID-19 Clinical Platform: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Rapid Version

URL: https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2020/04/ISARIC_COVID-19_RAPID_CRF_24MAR20_EN.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page case report form for COVID-19 is intended to provide member states with a standardized approach to collect clinical data in order to better understand the natural history of disease. It has three modules to be used for the first day of admission to the health center, the first day of admission to ICU or high dependency unit, and upon discharge or death.

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Title: Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools | HumanitarianResponse

URL: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/iraq/document/schoolguidancecovid19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: List of Priority Medical Devices in the context of COVID-19 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/list-priority-medical-devices-context-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This list of priority medical devices in the context of COVID-19 provides technical descriptions and specifications for the management of patients with suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 infection at different levels of healthcare.

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Title: Infection Prevention and Control During Health Care for Probable or Confirmed Cases of Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Infection

URL: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/IPCnCoVguidance_06May13.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The World Health Organization (WHO) developed this nine-page interim guidance to meet the urgent need for up-to-date information and evidence-based recommendations for the safe care of patients with probable or confirmed novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection as a result of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV). The guidance is intended for health-care workers, health-care managers, and infection prevention and control teams.

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Title: Interim Guidance Document - Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infections when novel coronavirus is suspected: What to do and what not to do

URL: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/InterimGuidance_ClinicalManagement_NovelCoronavirus_11Feb13.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 12-page interim guidance document aims to help clinicians with supportive management of patients who have acute respiratory failure and septic shock as a consequence of severe infection, in the context of the emergence of novel coronavirus in 2012, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It is organized into four sections that correspond to clinical management steps, and uses symbols after inventions for "do," "don't," and "be careful when considering this intervention."

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Title: Interim Surveillance Recommendations for Human Infection with Novel Coronavirus

URL: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/InterimRevisedSurveillanceRecommendations_nCoVinfection_18Mar13.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides surveillance guidance, as of March 2013, for novel coronavirus (nCoV). It makes specific revised recommendations for countries where the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been detected, and for investigations and studies to be carried out where cases are detected, which may help describe critical clinical and epidemiological features of the virus.

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Title: Laboratory Testing for Novel Coronavirus

URL: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/coronavirus_infections/LaboratoryTestingNovelCoronavirus_21Dec12.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document from December 2012 provides interim recommendations to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing for novel coronavirus, also called Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It includes a table that displays types of specimens for testing for the presence of novel coronavirus and advice on handling. The recommendations have been prepared by the World Health Organization and reviewed by laboratory experts.

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Title: COVID-19 Early Epidemiologic and Clinical Investigations for Public Health Response

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/200218-early-investigations-one-pager-v1-eng.pdf?sfvrsn=8aa0856_2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document provides information about several early investigation master protocols or master forms for early investigations of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It provides a table about these early investigation master protocols or master forms, with information about which early investigations; for whom; why; and a generic email address to contact.

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Title: First Few X (FFX) Cases and Contact Investigation Protocol for 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection, Version 2

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/20200129-generic-ffx-protocol-2019-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=595eb313_2&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 65-page protocol has been designed to investigate the First Few X (FFX) cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and their close contacts. It is envisioned that the FFX 2019-nCoV investigation will be conducted across several countries or sites with geographical and demographic diversity. Using a standardized protocol such as the protocol provided here, epidemiological exposure data and biological samples can be systematically collected and shared rapidly in a format that can be easily aggregated, tabulated, and analyzed across many different settings globally for timely estimates of 2019-nCoV infection severity and transmissibility, as well as to inform public health responses and policy decisions.

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Title: The COVAX facility: Global procurement for COVID-19 Vaccines

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/act-accelerator/covax/covax-facility-background.pdf?sfvrsn=810d3c22_2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides information about the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility, where countries have the opportunity to benefit from a portfolio of vaccine candidates so that their populations can have early access to effective vaccines.

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Title: Shipment Booking Form for 2019-nCoV

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/booking-form-2019-ncov-world-courier.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document for laboratories is the shipment booking form for 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) specimens, isolates, or cultures being shipped to the World Health Organization.

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Title: WHO R&D Blueprint COVID 19 Experimental Treatments

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/covid-classification-of-treatment-types-rev.pdf?sfvrsn=5b90b2f2_1&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides a table that details classification of COVID-19 experimental treatment types and names. It also provides information about the living map of ongoing research, and living synthesis of study results.

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Title: Ethics and COVID-19: resource allocation and priority-setting

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/ethics-covid-19-resource-allocation.pdf?sfvrsn=13dbf27f_2&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This policy brief answers a number of questions about the ethics of setting priorities for the allocation of resources during times of scarcity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such decisions may include access to hospitals, ventilators, vaccines, and medicines. The document provides a high-level ethical framework that can be used to guide decision-making, and complements WHO's technical guidance.

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Title: Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document describes how businesses and employers can play a role in stopping the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). It lists simple ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace; things to consider when employers and employees travel; and getting a business ready in case COVID-19 arrives in the community.

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Title: Key Messages and Actions for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/key-messages-and-actions-for-covid-19-prevention-and-control-in-schools-march-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=baf81d52_4

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 13-page document, published with UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross, provides new guidance to help protect children and schools from transmission of the COVID-19 virus. The guidance provides critical considerations and practical checklists to keep schools safe. It also advises national and local authorities on how to adapt and implement emergency plans for educational facilities.

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Title: Shipping 2019-nCoV Specimens to WHO 2019-nCoV Referral Laboratories

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/shipment-instructions-from-national-to-referral-2019-ncov-laboratories.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Countries that have no testing capacity for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) can send their samples to the World Health Organization-appointed 2019-nCoV referral laboratories for testing. This one-page document provides shipping instructions. National 2019-nCoV laboratories with limited experience are encouraged to send the first five positives and the first 10 negative 2019-nCoV samples to their referral laboratories for confirmation.

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Title: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/srp-04022020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 28-page strategic preparedness and response plan outlines the public health measures that the international community stands ready to provide to support all countries to prepare for and respond to 2019-nCoV. The document takes what has been learned so far about the virus, and translates that knowledge into strategic action that can guide the efforts of all national and international partners when developing context-specific national and regional operational plans.

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Title: WHO COVID-19 Reference Laboratory Network

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-reference-laboratories-providing-confirmatory-testing-for-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=a03a01e6_2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: WHO R&D Blueprint novel Coronavirus WHO Working Group – Core Protocol for therapeutics against COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-wg-solidarity-core-protocol-for-therapeutics-covid-19-terms-of-reference.pdf?sfvrsn=81d52cf_2&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document describes the World Health Organization's convening of a group of experts to design a clinical trial for an effective treatment against COVID-19 that could be implemented in several countries with similar methodology, and primary and secondary outcomes that could be comparable. The overall goal is a large international study designed to generate robust data to rapidly demonstrate which treatments are the most effective. The core protocol should provide simplified procedures to enable even hospitals that have been overloaded to participate.

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Title: 1st WHO infodemiology conference - How infodemics affect the world and how they can be managed

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/epi-win/infodemic-management/infodemiology-scientific-conference-booklet.pdf?sfvrsn=179de76a_4

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This virtual conference was held from June 29 to July 21, 2020, to understand the multidisciplinary nature of infodemic management; identify current examples and tools to understand, measure, and control infodemics; build a public health research agenda to direct focus and investment in this emerging scientific field; and establish a community of practice and research. This 44-page report provides the agenda for the conference, and discusses how, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, an infodemic is an overabundance of information 'some accurate and some not' occurring during an epidemic.

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Title: Population-Based Age-Stratified Seroepidemiological Investigation Protocol for COVID-19 Virus Infection

URL: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/inaugural-who-partners-forum/covid-19-seroepidemiological-investigation-protocol-v3.pdf?sfvrsn=ef4acdf9_1&download=true

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Key Considerations for Repatriation and Quarantine of Travellers in Relation to the Outbreak of Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

URL: https://www.who.int/ith/Repatriation_Quarantine_nCoV-key-considerations_HQ-final11Feb.pdf?ua=1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: For countries that have decided to repatriate their nationals from Wuhan City, China, in relation to the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), this four-page document provides key considerations that need to be made, in order to ensure the health and well-being of those involved in the repatriation. It lists measures to be adopted before embarkation, onboard the aircraft, upon arrival at the point of entry, in quarantine, and for personnel.

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Title: Home care for patients with COVID-19 presenting with mild symptoms and management of their contacts

URL: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/home-care-for-patients-with-suspected-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-presenting-with-mild-symptoms-and-management-of-contacts/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: "Home care for patients with COVID-19 presenting with mild symptoms and management of their contacts" interim guidance. Dated 17 March 2020

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Title: Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665-331603

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 120-page document is the first edition of the practical manual to set up and manage a severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) treatment center and a SARI screening facility in healthcare facilities. It has been developed to meet the operational needs emerging with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Key planning recommendations for mass gatherings in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665-332235

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to host governments, health authorities and national or international organizers of mass gatherings on containing risks of COVID-19 transmission associated with mass gathering events.

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Title: WHO mass gathering COVID-19 risk assessment tool – Religious events

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665-333186

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This risk assessment spreadsheet tool for religious gatherings has been updated to reflect new WHO guidance and new evidence on both COVID-19 and mass gatherings, as well as feedback from end-users. The Decision Tree is now built into the tool, and a new tab dedicated to Risk Communication has been added. The expanded tool now includes six tabs: 1. Instructions; 2. Decision Tree; 3. Risk Evaluation; 4. Risk Mitigation; 5. Decision Matrix; and 6. Risk Communication.

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Title: Guidance for the use of the WHO mass gathering risk assessment tools

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/10665-333187

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This risk assessment spreadsheet tool for sports events has been updated to reflect new WHO guidance and new evidence on both COVID-19 and mass gatherings, as well as feedback from end-users. The Decision Tree is now built into the tool, and a new tab dedicated to Risk Communication has been added. The expanded tool now includes six tabs: 1. Instructions; 2. Decision Tree; 3. Risk Evaluation; 4. Risk Mitigation; 5. Decision Matrix; and 6. Risk Communication.

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Title: Caring for women subjected to violence: a WHO curriculum for training health-care providers, revised edition, 2021

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240039803/

Collection: Violence as a Public Health Issue web archive

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Title: The impact of COVID-19 on mental, neurological and substance use services

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978924012455

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 48-page report of a survey completed by 130 countries during the period June-August 2020 provides information about the extent of disruption to mental, neurological, and substance use services due to COVID-19; the types of services that have been disrupted; and how countries are adapting to overcome these challenges.

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Title: Practical actions in cities to strengthen preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: an interim checklist for local authorities, 17 July 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-ActionsforPreparedness-Checklist-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document accompanies the interim guidance on "Strengthening Preparedness for COVID-19 in Cities and Urban Settings." It provides local authorities, leaders, and policy-makers in cities with a checklist tool to ensure that key areas have been covered. An Excel version that local authorities may wish to adapt to meet their needs is also available.

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Title: Preparedness for cyclones, tropical storms, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes during the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Advisory-Preparedness-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This health advisory provides guidance to countries on adapting all existing preparedness and response plans and procedures for cyclones, tropical storms, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and potential outbreaks of other diseases to their COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plans. It also provides advice on how to test the required capacities through simulation as and when necessary to ensure the strategic objectives of pandemic response.

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Title: Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Comm_health_care-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance, published with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and UNICEF, addresses the specific role of community-based health care in the COVID-19 pandemic context and outlines the adaptations needed to keep people safe, maintain continuity of essential services, and ensure an effective response to COVID-19. It is intended for decision-makers and managers at the national and subnational levels and complements a range of other guidance, including that on priority public health interventions, facility-based care, and risk communication and community engagement in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Corticosteroids for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Corticosteroids-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Corticosteroids have received worldwide attention as a potentially effective treatment for COVID-19. This guideline reflects an innovation from the World Health Organization, driven by an urgent need for global collaboration to provide trustworthy and living COVID-19 guidance informing policy and practice worldwide during an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, such as this pandemic.

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Title: Safe Eid al Adha practices in the context of COVID-19: Interim guidance

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Eid_al_Adha-2021.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Eid al Adha is a festival during which Muslim families and friends unite to pray together and give alms, especially in the form of sacrificed animal meat. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this document highlights public health advice for social gatherings and religious practices that can be applied across different national contexts.

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Title: Ethical considerations to guide the use of digital proximity tracking technologies for COVID-19 contact tracing

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Ethics_Contact_tracing_apps-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Digital proximity tracking technologies have been identified as a potential tool to support contact tracing for COVID-19. However, these technologies raise ethical and privacy concerns. This document is intended to provide policymakers and other stakeholders with guidance as to the ethical and appropriate use of digital proximity tracking technologies for COVID-19.

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Title: Framework for decision-making: implementation of mass vaccination campaigns in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Framework_Mass_Vaccination-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this eight-page document outlines a common framework for decision-making for the conduct of preventive and outbreak response campaigns; offers principles to consider when deliberating the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns for prevention of increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and high impact diseases (VPD/HID) among susceptible populations; and details the risks and benefits of conducting vaccination campaigns to respond to VPD/HID outbreaks.

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Title: Infection prevention and control health-care facility response for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_assessment-IPC-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 32-page tool has been designed to assess infection prevention and control capacities to respond to COVID-19 in health facilities. This tool forms part of a wider suite of health service capacity assessment tools, the harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine readiness, and other health products for COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_assessment-Products-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 28-page tool has been designed to assess present and surge capacities for the treatment of COVID-19 in health facilities, with a focus on the availability of diagnostics, therapeutics and other health products, vaccine readiness, availability of beds, and space capacities. This tool forms part of a wider suite of health service capacity assessment tools, the harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff in COVID-19 health-care facilities: a module from the suite of health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCF_assessment-Safe_environment-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 49-page tool has been designed to assess the structural capacities of hospitals to allow safe COVID-19 case management, maintain the delivery of essential services, and enable surge capacity planning. This tool forms part of a wider suite of health service capacity assessment tools, the harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Surveillance protocol for SARS-CoV-2 infection among health workers

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-HCW_Surveillance_Protocol-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is a surveillance protocol targeting health workers who are found to be positive for COVID-19. It represents a technical tool and service that the World Health Organization is providing to countries that want to better understand the characteristics and exposure of health workers infected with COVID-19.

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Title: Infection prevention and control during health care when coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎ is suspected or confirmed

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC-2021.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides interim guidance on infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies during health care when coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is suspected or confirmed. It is intended for health workers, including healthcare managers and IPC teams at the facility level, but it is also relevant for the national and district/provincial levels. In this updated version, the scope and structure of the earlier guidance have been expanded with several new or revised sections, bringing together other interim recommendations as well as considerations and advice from international experts.

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Title: Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC-WASH-2020.4

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This interim guidance supplements COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO guidance on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses. This document is an update to the interim guidance document entitled Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Waste Management for the COVID-19 Virus.

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Title: Advice on the use of masks for children in the community in the context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC_Masks-Children-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document, co-published with UNICEF, provides guidance to decision-makers, the public, and child health professionals to inform policy on the use of masks for children in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does not address the use of masks for adults working with children or parents/guardians or the use of masks for children in healthcare settings.

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Title: Case Report Form for suspected cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-MIS_Children_CRF-2020.2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This form is to be completed for all children aged 0-19 suspected to have multisystem inflammatory disorder temporally related to COVID-19 (even if all criteria in the case definition are not met - to capture full spectrum of the condition).

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Title: WHO mass gathering COVID-19 risk assessment tool: generic events, version 3

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Mass-gathering-RAtool-2022.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This risk assessment spreadsheet tool for generic events has been updated to reflect new WHO guidance and new evidence on both COVID-19 and mass gatherings, as well as feedback from end-users. The Decision Tree is now built into the tool, and a new tab dedicated to Risk Communication has been added. The expanded tool now includes six tabs: 1. Instructions; 2. Decision Tree; 3. Risk Evaluation; 4. Risk Mitigation; 5. Decision Matrix; and 6. Risk Communication.

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Title: Preventing and managing COVID-19 across long-term care services: Policy brief, 24 July 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Policy_Brief-Long-term_Care-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This policy brief provides 11 policy objectives and key action points to prevent and manage COVID-19 across long-term care. It builds on currently available evidence on the measures taken to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic across long-term care services, including care providers.

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Title: Estimating mortality from COVID-19: Scientific brief, 4 August 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Sci-Brief-Mortality-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Differences in mortality between groups of people and countries are important proxy indicators of relative risk of death that guide policy decisions regarding scarce medical resource allocation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page document is intended to help countries estimate case fatality ratio (CFR), and, if possible, infection fatality ratio (IFR), as appropriately and accurately as possible, while accounting for possible biases in their estimation.

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Title: Smoking and COVID-19

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Sci_Brief-Smoking-2020.2

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: 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; and severity of COVID-19 outcomes among hospitalized patients, such as admission into intensive care units (ICUs), use of ventilators, and death.

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Title: Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the covid-19 pandemic: Key actions

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Violence_actions-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Several countries affected by COVID-19 have seen increases in levels of violence occurring in the home, including violence against children, intimate partner violence, and violence against older people. Countries also face increasing challenges in maintaining support and care for survivors of violence. This brief compiles key actions that the health sector can undertake within a multi-sectoral response to prevent or mitigate interpersonal violence based on existing WHO guidance.

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Title: Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context: interim guidance, 1 June 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-essential-health-services-2020.1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document expands on the content of the essential health services and systems pillar of the COVID-19 strategic preparedness and response plan. It provides operational planning guidelines to support country preparedness and response, supersedes the earlier operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak, and complements the recently released community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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