This document provides guidance to EU/EEA Member States on environmental cleaning in healthcare and non-healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recomendaciones elaboradas por el Ministerio de Salud, a través del Departamento de Ciclo Vital, a través de la División de Prevención y Control de Enfermedades.
El documento que se presenta a continuación, complementa a: “Estrategia Residencias Sanitarias, recomendaciones para la implementa...ción en el marco del plan de acción coronavirus COVID-19”.
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Près de deux ans après la signature de l’Accord Politique pour la Paix et la Réconciliation (APPR), la population centrafricaine est toujours l’otage d’un environnement sécuritaire instable et imprévisible. La poursuite des conflits dans plusieurs zones du pays, les faiblesses structurell...es conjuguées aux effets socio-économiques de la pandémie de COVID-19 et aux effets dévastateurs des catastrophes naturelles ont plongé 2,8 millions de personnes dans une grande vulnérabilité. Sur ce total, 1,9 million connaissent des besoins humanitaires sévères, un chiffre inégalé depuis 5 ans qui traduit une détérioration du bien-être physique et mental et des conditions de vie des populations dans l’ensemble du pays.
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Guide for COVID-19 Response in Kenya
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing energy and cost-of-living crises, many OECD countries have had to face significant economic and societal challenges over the last five years. The succession of crises has had important implications for health systems and the available resources allocated to... health. This policy brief examines the recent trends in health spending and discusses what is driving the latest spending trajectory.
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The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that
the world was not well prepared to respond
to an infectious disease threat of this magnitude. Countries across all socioeconomic and development categories have struggled
to implement effective national responses. Substantial amounts of additional investmen...t are required to support the development of country capacities to prevent, detect and respond to both existing and emerging
infectious disease threats. Prior research efforts have estimated that between US$96 and $204billion is required, globally, to
advance country-level health security capacities, with US$63–131billion needed over a 3-year period. Given the substantial costs
of ongoing COVID-19 response, estimated to
be over US$12.5trillion through 2024, and an estimated 12.1–22.7million excess deaths, globally, due to COVID-19 as of January 2022,
the importance and potential return on investment of such upfront investments in capacity building are more evident than ever before.
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Addendum: 2020 mid-year COVID-19 resvision, summary of the reprioritisation & additional requirements in response to COVID-19
In June and July 2020, a mid-year revision of the 2020 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) was undertaken as an inter-agency consultative process to discuss ...and document the reprioritization of activities and corresponding budgets for the rest of the year, taking into account the impacts of COVID-19 and other developments.
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La crisis de personas refugiadas y migrantes venezolanos es una de las mayores crisis de desplazamiento externo en el mundo. La pandemia COVID-19 ha agravado la ya desesperada situación de muchas personas refugiadas y migrantes, así como la de los países de acogida, poniendo a prueba los sistemas... nacionales de salud y asistencia social, así como la capacidad de los países para apoyar a su población vulnerable.
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Previous crises, such as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa in 2014, indicate the direct impact movement restrictions and disease containment efforts have on food availability, access, utilization and violence – particularly gender-based violence (GBV). The importance of maintaining and ...upscaling food security interventions for the most vulnerable populations, alongside the health sector’s efforts to avert disease spread, is therefore undeniable. The COVID-19 outbreak in South Sudan threatens to paralyze an already fragile food system and negatively impact more than 6.5 million people in South Sudan who remain vulnerable. At the same time, the core national capacities for prevention, preparedness and response for public health events is limited, and the healthcare system has been weakened by years of conflict, poor governance and low investments.
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Orientações para a vigilância em saúde, no que se refere aos aspectos epidemiológicos e laboratoriais da vigilância genômica da covid-19
Данный курс предназначен для практикующих врачей, работающих в отделениях реанимации и интенсивной терапии (ОРИТ) в странах с низким и средним уровнем дохода, а та...же занимающихся клиническим ведением взрослых больных и детей с тяжелыми формами острой респираторной инфекции (ТОРИ), включая тяжелую пневмонию, острый респираторный дистресс-синдром (ОРДС), сепсис и септический шок. Данное практическое руководство может быть использовано в работе специалистов в области здравоохранения, участвующих в организации интенсивной терапии во время вспышек сезонного гриппа, вызванного вирусом птичьего гриппа (H5N1, H7N9), коронавирусом MERS-CoV и новым коронавирусом COVID-19, или во время других новых эпидемий респираторной вирусной инфекции.
WHO Clinical Care Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Training
also available in : English - français - Português - Bahasa Indonesia - Tiếng Việt - Español - македонски - العربية - Tetun
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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 106: Issue 1 p.12-14.he piece highlights a body of research that suggests tiny plastic particles could disrupt immune and endocrine systems, damage organs, and cause other health problems. “Without a fundamental reimagining of global... industrial practices, we will continue to see dire impacts on the climate, the planet and our health
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a continuous and robust impact on world health. The resulting COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating physical, mental and fiscal impact on the millions of people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), as they have a higher risk of severe illness... and death from COVID-19. COVID-19 has been associated with an
excess in all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality beyond that related to the infection itself and its immediate consequences. Studies in the
United Kingdom (UK) and United States of America (USA) have clearly shown increasing deaths from ischemic heart disease, stroke and hypertensive disease due to COVID-19. Overall, the impact has been greater in individuals with lower socioeconomic status, even in high income nations.
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La lutte contre l’épidémie de Covid-19 nous montre de manière cinglante que, sur le terrain de l’action en santé publique, les logiques de promotion de la santé sont bel et bien minoritaires. Pendant cette période de crise, la décision
politique et sanitaire se base largement sur un mod...le hygiéniste. Ce dernier s’est déployé comme si la promotion de la santé (appelée à devenir à ses origines une «nouvelle santé publique») n’avait jamais existé, comme si tout un corpus
d’enseignements n’avait pu franchir les murs des écoles, comme si un ensemble de pratiques menées depuis un demi-siècle à différentes échelles n’avaient pas démontré leur efficacité et été reconnues scientifiquement.
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On September 10, 2022, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a cholera outbreak in Aleppo governorate with 15 laboratory confirmed cases reported between August 25 and September 9, 2022. Activities under this plan seek to address the immediate needs stemming from this outbreak and highlight respons...e priorities across all areas of the response and key sectors involved. This plan initially focuses on the Health, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) responses for an initial period of 90 days. The activities detailed in this plan are also within the programmatic scope of the 2022-2023 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
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Временные рекомендации
от 12 февраля 2020 г.
Целью настоящего документа является предоставление временных рекомендаций
по биологической безопасности в лаборато...ных условиях, которые следует соблюдать при исследовании клинических образцов пациентов, подпадающих под определение случаев инфицирования новым патогеном, выявленным
в Ухане (Китай), то есть новым коронавирусом
2019 г. (2019-nCoV), вызывающим заболевание
под названием COVID-19.
В связи с тем, что наши знания
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Cureus 16(2): e53933. DOI 10.7759/cureus.53933
J Antimicrob Chemother https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkab423
Antibiotic stewardship is absolutely crucial in the fight to control antimicrobial resistance. Everyone has a part to
play. Grassroots action is essential; it is no good sitting back and waiting for world leaders to solve this problem.
In... this article I outline some of the challenges and the steps that everyone can take to do their part in tackling
the slow-moving crisis of AMR.
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The WHO COVID-19 LENS (Living Evidence Synthesis) working group consolidated available evidence, based on rapid reviews of the literature and results of a living systematic review on pregnancy and COVID-19 (up to October 7, 2020), on potential mechanisms of vertical transmission of infectious pathog...ens, feasibility of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2, data related to interpretation of positive SARS-CoV-2 virologic and serologic neonatal tests, lessons from diagnosis of other congenital infections, and existing proposed definitions to classify timing of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world and consequently increased MHPSS needs across various contexts. While National Societies respond to the rising mental health and psychosocial support needs, they are also adapting to and implementing remote support, such as telephone hotlines or other onl...ine services. Accordingly, many trainings in psychological first aid (PFA) of staff and volunteers have moved to online platforms.
Throughout the pandemic, the PS Centre developed online approaches, guidances, adaptable tools, videos, podcasts, and other materials on MHPSS. This was to ensure easy access to tools and resources that assist National Societies in their training efforts in MHPSS during COVID-19.
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