Zika Virus Quiz

Quiz with six questions – can be used in a health facility, with students, or with general public.

The questions are:

  1. What can you do to you protect yourself from Zika virus?
  2. What should insect repellent contain to be effective against mosquitoes?
  3. Can Zika virus be transmitted through sex?
  4. Can women transmit Zika virus to their fetuses during pregnancy or childbirth?
  5. Which of the below can cause paralysis?
  6. Does Zika virus cause microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome?

Source: World Health Organization

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Open WHO

OpenWHO is WHO’s interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering online courses to improve the response to health emergencies. OpenWHO enables the Organization and its key partners to transfer life-saving knowledge to large numbers of frontline responders.

Last modified: March 25, 2019

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Selection of Safe and Effective Antimalarial Medicines

This webpage provides links to the two documents that antimalarial medicine procurement should be based on: the WHO guidelines for treatment of malaria and the WHO model list of essential medicines.

It also contains more information on the WHO Prequalification Program, as well as recommended procurement practices.

Source: World Health Organization

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019