Title: Zika, Infección por Virus

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_topics&view=article&id=427&Itemid=41484&lang=es

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Page on the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) featuring information in Spanish on the Zika virus. The page features news, updates, resources, photos and videos. PAHO is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas.

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Title: Zika Virus infection

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11585&Itemid=41688&lang=en

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Page on the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) website dedicated to the Zika virus. The page features news, updates, resources, photos and videos related to Zika virus infection.

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Title: With 14 countries yet to vaccinate 40% of people, Americas remain most unequal region in the world in fight against COVID-19 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/news/2-2-2022-14-countries-yet-vaccinate-40-people-americas-remain-most-unequal-region-world-fight

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Video - Donning of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/news/17-6-2020-video-donning-personal-protective-equipment-ppe

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-minute video demonstrates how to use personal protective equipment in the clinical care of COVID-19 patients in an aerosol and non-aerosol generating environments, with actions to take before and during the donning of the equipment.

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Title: Vaccination of Newborns in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 19 May 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52226?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document provides guidance regarding vaccination of newborns with hepatitis B and BCG vaccines in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to maintain high vaccination coverage.

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Title: Uso de emergencia de intervenciones no probadas y fuera del ámbito de la investigación. Orientación ética para la pandemia de COVID-19, 25 de junio del 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52430?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance presents the existing framework aimed at ensuring that the use of unproven interventions outside of research during an emergency is ethical; discusses the challenges encountered in the use of unproven interventions outside of research during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Region of the Americas; and provides general and operational recommendations to advance during the COVID-19 pandemic the ethical use of unproven interventions outside of research.

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Title: The Immunization Program in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 26 March 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/51992

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document provides guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It contains recommendations on vaccination and epidemiological surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Region of the Americas.

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Title: Template and operational guidance for the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research, 15 April 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52086/PAHOHSSBIOCOVID19200007_eng.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides a template of standard operating procedures for research ethics committees to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the rapid review of human subjects research related to COVID-19. This publication supplements PAHO's guidance and strategies to streamline the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research with human subjects.

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Title: Technical specifications of medical devices for the case management of COVID-19 in healthcare settings - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/51979/PAHOPHEIMCovid1920001_eng.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Technical recommendations for the configuration of a specialized Emergency Medical Team for the treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). Version 3.5 (5 April 2020)

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52136?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The technical recommendations in this 22-page document outline how to set up the emergency medical team within hospitals to provide safe care to COVID-19 patients and others with severe acute respiratory infections.

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Title: Technical Recommendations for the Selection of Alternative Medical Care Sites (AMCS) - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/technical-recommendations-selection-alternative-medical-care-sites-amcs

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The technical recommendations in this 24-page document are designed to guide the steps in the assessment, redesign, and scaling up of new alternative medical care sites (AMCSs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Users will be able to quickly and methodically locate and determine the viability of new sites.

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Title: Technical Documents - Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/technical-documents-coronavirus-disease-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides links to COVID-19 technical documents for these topics: Biosafety, Clinical Management, Detection and Diagnosis, Disability-Related Information, Emergency Medical Teams-Medical Surge, Essential Medicines, Ethics, Hospital Readiness, Health Workers, Health Services, Healthy Aging, Hospital Readiness, Infection Prevention and Control, Medical Devices, Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Readiness, Requirements and Technical Specifications - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Risk Communication, Social Distancing and Travel-Related Measures, and Surveillance.

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Title: Suicide prevention must be prioritized after 18 months of COVID-19 pandemic, says PAHO - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/news/9-9-2021-suicide-prevention-must-be-prioritized-after-18-months-covid-19-pandemic-says-paho

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Retrofit Measures for COVID-19, 10 June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52292?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document is intended to describe simple natural and mechanical ventilation measures that can be implemented as an extension of the PAHO Smart Retrofits project with the aim of reducing the risk of transmission of viruses like COVID-19.

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Title: Requirements and technical specifications of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the novel coronavirus (2019-ncov) in healthcare settings

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/51906

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The precautions described in this four-page document are recommended for the care of patients with suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19). Recommendations are for any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19: standard + contact + droplet precautions; for any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 and aerosol-generating procedures (AGP): standard + contact + airborne precautions.

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Title: Recommendations on Environmental Public Health for Temporary Shelters. Place where shelter, food, clothing, and health are temporarily provided to vulnerable people who cannot stay at home, 11 May 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52189?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This technical note presents the key actions to support and protect populations that make use of shelters and transit homes during the COVID-19 emergency. It includes the promotion of hygiene and self-care measures, waste management, sanitation, cleaning and disinfection of spaces, access to safe water, hand washing, and social distancing.

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Title: Recommendations for Implementing the CICOM Methodology during the COVID-19 Response. Version 3.1, 10 June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52376?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The technical recommendations in this 13-page guide provide information on the methodology for setting up medical coordination and information cells (CICOM, Spanish acronym) as a key function of health emergency operations centers (EOCs). This will facilitate decision-making on how to increase surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic through the deployment of emergency medical teams (EMTs) and the installation of alternative medical care sites (AMCS), in cooperation with integrated health services networks and prehospital health care systems.

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Title: Recommendations for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning in Health Care Facilities, 21 May 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52228?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page technical note presents general recommendations to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 virus through heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in health care facilities.

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Title: Rapid Assessment of service delivery for NCDs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas, 4 June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52250/PAHONMHNVCOVID-19200024_eng.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report presents a snapshot of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on noncommunicable disease (NCD) services in the Region of the Americas. It represents the views and perspectives of the national health authorities responsible for overseeing the governmental NCD programs during a period of four weeks in May 2020, at a time when the Region of the Americas was considered the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Promoting health equity, gender and ethnic equality, and human rights in COVID-­19 responses: Key considerations

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52058?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The aim of this document is to function as a "first port of call" for national health policymakers to support their efforts to integrate and enhance equity, gender, ethnicity, and human rights considerations and approaches into measures responding to COVID-19. It also provides links to sources of related information and guidelines.

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Title: Prehospital Emergency Medical System Readiness: Checklist for COVID-19. Draft document, Version 2.3 (9 March 2020)

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52169

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PDF Form for Prehospital Emergency Medical Service Readiness Checklist for COVID-19 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/pdf-form-prehospital-emergency-medical-service-readiness-checklist-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PAHO/WHO eHealth (@ehealthpaho) | Twitter

URL: https://twitter.com/ehealthpaho/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Twitter account page for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Title: PAHO urges countries to prepare for “dual threat” of hurricane season and COVID-19 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/news/8-6-2021-paho-urges-countries-prepare-dual-threat-hurricane-season-and-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PAHO issues update on poliovirus in the Americas - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/news/24-3-2023-paho-issues-update-poliovirus-americas

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PAHO Activities on Zika Prevention and Control

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=33032&Itemid=270&lang=en

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Fact sheet titled, "PAHO Activities on Zika Prevention and Control," published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on January 27, 2016. The handout provides information on the organization's work to prevent and control the spread of the Zika virus.

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Title: Mpox (monkeypox) outbreak - 2022 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/mpox-outbreak-2022

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website from the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization providing information about mpox (monkeypox). Resources include statistics, alerts and updates, frequently asked questions, advice for the public, technical resources, and communication resources.

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Title: Mientras el zika continúa propagándose, OPS recomienda a los países monitorear síndromes neurológicos y anomalías congénitas

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11574%3A2016-as-the-zika-virus-spreads-paho-advises-countries-to-monitor-and-report-birth-anomalies-suspected-complications-of-virus&catid=740%3Anews-press-releases&Itemid=1926&lang=es

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Press release titled, "Mientras el zika continúa propagándose, OPS recomienda a los países monitorear síndromes neurológicos y anomalías congénitas," published on the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) website on January 18, 2016. The press release is in Spanish.

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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: Laboratory Guidelines for the Detection and Diagnosis of COVID-19 Virus Infection, 8 July 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52458?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommends that Member States ensure timely identification of suspect COVID-19 cases; collection and shipment of samples to reference laboratories; and implementation of molecular detection protocols, according to the laboratory capacity.

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Title: Laboratory Guidelines for Detection and Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/51895/ncov-lab-recommendations-en.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page guidance for laboratories about provides coronavirus (COVID-19) information on suspected case definition; specimen collection and shipment; effective usage of global laboratory networking; testing of COVID-19 in reference laboratories; and reporting of cases and test results.

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Title: Key Recommendations on Water Sanitation and Hygiene: COVID-19. Healthcare facilities - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/key-recommendations-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-covid-19-healthcare-facilities

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document provides recommendations for water, sanitation, and hygiene measures in healthcare facilities that are important to provide adequate patient care and protect both patients and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a table of disinfectant solutions and their uses.

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Title: Interpretation of laboratory results for COVID-19 diagnosis, 6 May 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52138?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document discusses the currently available assays for COVID-19, which can be classified into two groups, and how to interpret laboratory results for symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.

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Title: International guidelines for certification and classification (coding) of COVID-19 as cause of death - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/documents/international-guidelines-certification-and-classification-coding-covid-19-cause-death

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document describes certification and classification (coding) of deaths related to COVID-19. The primary goal is to identify all deaths due to COVID-19. A simplified section specifically addresses the persons that fill in the medical certificate of cause of death.

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Title: Interim laboratory biosafety guidelines for the handling and transport of samples associated with the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), 28 January 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/51897

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page document provides laboratory biosafety guidelines for the handling and transport of samples associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and details why it is necessary to maintain and strengthen biosafety measures, including personal protection procedures, to work with samples from suspected cases of respiratory pathogen infection.

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Title: Initial care of persons with acute respiratory illness (ARI) in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities: assess the risk, isolate, refer. Interim recommendations, version 1 (12 April 2020)

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52031/PAHOPHEIMCovid1920004_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document provides recommendations on the initial care of persons with acute respiratory illness (ARI) in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities based on a decision-making process flowchart.

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Title: Health and the Economy: A Convergence Needed to Address COVID-19 and Retake the Path of Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52535/PAHOHSSCOVID-19200027_eng.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 24-page joint report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is issued at a time when several Latin American countries have become the epicenter of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The main conclusion of this report is that if the pandemic transmission curve is not brought under control, the countries' economies will be unable to recover.

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Title: Guidance and strategies to streamline ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research, 7 April 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52089?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document offers health authorities and ethics review committees guidance and strategies with which to implement rapid and rigorous ethics review and oversight processes for COVID-19-related research with human subjects.

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Title: Flowchart for the management of suspected COVID-19 patients at the first level of care and in remote areas in the Region of the Americas

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52577/PAHOIMSEIHCOVID-19200012_eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document offers an algorithm for the management of COVID-19 patients at the first level of care and in remote areas, with focus on early case identification-based on severity, and timely indications of remission.

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Title: Ethics guidance on issues raised by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52091/PAHOHSSBIOCOVID19200008_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Ethics guidance for the use of scarce resources in the delivery of critical health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52096/PAHOHSSBIOCOVID-192-0012_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This brief, one-page ethics guidance provides four basic recommendations to guide the work of health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been developed on the basis of prior guidance, with adaptations to the context of the pandemic.

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Title: Essential Medicines List for Management of Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Diagnosis, 24 March 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52191/PAHOHSSMTCOVID-19200019_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Epidemiology and Inequalities in Brazil: The EpiCOVID19 Study Prof. Dr. Cesar G. Victora - YouTube

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcMMf4jG2E

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: "Epidemiology and Inequalities in Brazil: The EpiCOVID19 Study Prof. Dr. Cesar G. Victora". Posted 20 July 2020. 1:19:52 timestamp.

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Title: Epidemiological Update: Neurological syndrome, congenital anomalies, and Zika virus infection

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&Itemid=270&gid=32879&lang=en

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Neurological syndrome, congenital anomalies, and Zika virus infection," published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on January 17, 2016. The report provides an epidemiological update on the Zika virus.

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Title: Epidemiological Alert: COVID-19 During Pregnancy (13 August 2020)

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52613?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page document details how the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) requests that Member States intensify efforts to ensure access to prenatal care services, as well as to implement preventive measures to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19 across all levels of the health system, in order to maintain the commitment to reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and the progress achieved to date.

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Title: Disaster Management Tool 16: Maintenance of Essential Services

URL: https://www.paho.org/disasters/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&category_slug=tools&alias=543-pandinflu-leadershipduring-tool-16&Itemid=1179&lang=en/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Dead Body Management in the Context of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Interim recommendations, 7 April 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52001?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document provides recommendations on the management of dead bodies in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities.

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Title: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.paho.org/en/topics/coronavirus-infections/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website from the Pan-American Health Organization on the COVID-19 situation in the Americas, with weekly press briefings, infographics, videos, the latest news, and an information hub.

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Title: Considerations on Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and Other Ethnic Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 4 June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52251?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report discusses how indigenous populations, Afro-descendants, and members of other ethnic groups may run a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 for different reasons. It provides recommendations for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, and members of other ethnic groups; community leaders; health workers; and governments.

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Title: Considerations for the Use of Hotels during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Interim technical working document, version 5 (2 April 2020)

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52241/PAHOIMSPHECPICOVID-19200016_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: To the extent that health services network capacities need to be strengthened or have been overwhelmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to consider other strategies at the community level. This 11-page document discusses the strategy of fitting out hotels to be extensions of health facilities.

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Title: Caribbean Shelter Guide: COVID-19 Considerations

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52170?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document reinforces some measures to follow per international emergency shelter protocols, factoring in conditions for spacing between beds/cots, recreation areas, and ventilation, according to The Sphere Handbook, FEMA, and Australian Red Cross. Physical distancing and hygienic standards were modified, highlighting that ideal requirements are not always feasible; therefore, realistic recommendations for practical purposes and suspected cases of COVID-19 may be chosen.

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Title: COVID-19: Guidelines for Communicating about Coronavirus Disease 2019. A Guide for Leaders

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52391

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Risk communication is an integral component of public health risk management and a core capacity under the International Health Regulations. This 16-page document provides suggestions, principles, and templates that will be essential to ensure that people understand the risks of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and follow authorities' recommendations to protect their health and the health of their loved ones.

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Title: COVID-19 Recommended Interventions in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) during the Pandemic, June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52485?show=full

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document describes the essential interventions in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) that should be developed on an intersectoral basis in countries and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its frame of reference is the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) intervention pyramid for MHPSS services, which shows different levels of support, ranging from social considerations, safety, and basic needs, to the provision of specialized services for the management of more severe conditions, as well as the probable volume of demand at each established level.

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Title: As the Zika virus spreads, PAHO advises countries to monitor and report birth anomalies and other suspected complications of the virus

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11574%3A2016-as-the-zika-virus-spreads-paho-advises-countries-to-monitor-and-report-birth-anomalies-suspected-complications-of-virus&catid=740%3Anews-press-releases&Itemid=1926&lang=en

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Press release titled, "As the Zika virus spreads, PAHO advises countries to monitor and report birth anomalies and other suspected complications of the virus," published on the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) website on January 18, 2016.

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Title: A Checklist for COVID-2019 Pandemic Risk and Impact Management. Interim document, 27 February 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52274/PAHOPHEIHMCOVID-19200012_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 18-page document is a tool to help national authorities to develop or revise national pandemic preparedness and response plans to COVID‑19 (coronavirus). It has been developed to take into account the COVID-19 interim guidelines and the World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on topics related to pandemic influenza and public health emergency planning. Each section of the document presents a checklist of suggested planning actions that countries can take in order to be better prepared for a pandemic.

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