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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Online Course

The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent.

In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in their communities.

The course will also cover several important ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Finally, the course will identify some of the most common barriers to contact tracing efforts — along with strategies to overcome them.

Last modified: September 2, 2020

Language: Arabic, English, Nepali, Portuguese, Spanish

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    CommunityFirst COVID-19 Roadmap

    This Roadmap is a planning tool to support communities to organize, prepare and respond to COVID-19.

    It provides key steps in working to respond to COVID-19:

    1. Determine level of transmission

    2. Identify high-risk and vulnerable groups

    3. Coordinate with health authorities and other relevant actors

    4. Protect your community

    5. Communicate key messages

    6. Provide food and essential items

    7. Supply water and sanitation

    Last modified: July 21, 2020

    Language: English, French, Inuktitut, Portuguese, Spanish

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      SBCC for Emergency Preparedness Implementation Kit

      The purpose of this I-Kit is to provide a set of key considerations for SBCC activities in emergency situations.

      This I-Kit provides essential information and tools for responding to an outbreak using an SBCC approach. It presents a series of nine units, each accompanied by exercise worksheets to help link the SBCC theory to practice.

      Each unit builds on the one prior, and they all combine to provide key information for developing an SBCC strategy. It is not essential, however, to work through the I-Kit from start to finish. Users can choose to focus on specific aspects for which they need support in their emergency communication response. The nine units and corresponding worksheets are outlined in the I-Kit Site Navigator.

      The worksheets in each section are typically followed by a completed example. The completed examples will likely include information about an emergency that, during an actual event, might not be immediately available. This was done to illustrate the full range of information to inform a strategic communication response.

      This kit is also available in Portuguese.

      Last modified: July 21, 2020

      Language: English, French, Portuguese

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        COVID-19: Resources to Address Gender-based Violence Risks

        This resource provides practitioners with key resources to support the integration of GBV risk mitigation into COVID-19 response. It will be frequently updated as the crisis unfolds.

        Last modified: July 21, 2020

        Language: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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          Grassroot Soccer SKILLZ COVID-19 Response Curriculum

          The SKILLZ COVID-19 RESPONSE curriculum was developed in March 2020 to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. Grassroot Soccer (grassrootsoccer.org) and its team of curriculum advisors rapidly designed this sport-based tool as a way for coaches, educators, and parents to easily facilitate fun, simple, and effective sessions with young people (ages 9+).

          The curriculum aims to increase comprehensive knowledge on COVID-19, promote healthy behaviors such as proper handwashing, provide skills for mental wellbeing during stressful times, and dispel common myths about the disease. Use this SKILLZ COVID-19 RESPONSE curriculum to connect with young people either in schools or the classroom (if deemed safe by local health authorities) or remotely through video-conferencing and WhatsApp (where available). .

          Parents and caregivers can also use this tool to provide COVID-19 education to children at home.

          Grassroot Soccer (GRS) is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges, live healthier, more productive lives, and be agents for change in their communities. Since 2002, GRS has reached over 2 million young people in 50 countries with life-saving HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services.

          Other related documents are:

          Last modified: July 21, 2020

          Language: Chichewa, English, French, Portuguese

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            COVID-Ready Communication Playbook for Health Professionals

            The team at VitalTalk crowdsourced this playbook to provide some practical advice to health care professionals on how to talk to their patients about some difficult topics related to COVID-19.

            Building on their experience studying and teaching communication they’ve drawn on their networks to crowdsource the challenges and match them with advice from some of the best clinicians they know.

            Last modified: June 18, 2020

            Language: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese

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              Tostan Brochures on COVID-19

              Tostan is an organization in Senegal which empowers communities to develop and achieve their vision for the future and inspires large-scale movements leading to dignity for all.The organization has produced two pamphlets about COVID-19.

              Booklet on COVID-19

              This booklet is available in English, French, Portuguese, Créole, Wolof, Pulaar, Mandinka, Oniyan, Maninka, and Bamanankan.

              Brochure on An Islamic Perspective on Pandemics, Epidemics, and Contagious Diseases is available

              Source: Tostan

              Date of Publication: May 31, 2020

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              COVID-19: Keeping Young People Healthy

              This page offers practical guides for adolesecents and young people, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers and implementing partners to keep young people healthy during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

              Last modified: April 30, 2020

              Language: English, French, Portuguese, Swahili

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                  Materials in Many Languages

                  Doctors of the World and British Red Cross have shared COVID-19 fact sheets available in many different languages. Files are in Word or PDF.

                  Source: Doctors of the World

                  Date of Publication: April 6, 2020

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                  Supercharge Your Social Impact: Using Social Marketing for Behavior Change

                  In this book the author encourages the use of soical marketing techniques to effect behavior change. Social marketing—using marketing tools and techniques to facilitate behavior change—is a proven approach that’s been used for decades in programs addressing public health, social and environmental issues, and international development.

                  Social marketing helps boost the effectiveness of the programs and campaigns that are the reason SBC programs exist in the first place—to make a positive impact on the lives of people.

                  The book includes chapters on:

                  • Why Social Marketing?
                  • Social Marketing Key Principles
                  • Be Strategic: The Social Marketing Mix
                  • The Social Marketing Process Worksheet: Thinking About Your Social Marketing Strategy
                  • So You Want to Be a Social Marketer

                  The book is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese

                  Last modified: February 3, 2020

                  Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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