Mosquito Bite Prevention for Travelers

As part of the prevention campaign regarding the Zika Virus, the US CDC offers this poster warning travelers about the dangers of mosquito bites.

It urges travelers to:

  • Keep mosquitoes out of your hotel room or lodging
  • Cover up
  • Use only an EPA-registered Natural insect repellents

There is also advice about proper clothing for infants and children.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Prevent Dengue during Pregnancy

This brochure explains that if a woman gets dengue while pregnant, especially during the last three months near delivery, she can spread the infection to her baby. Dengue can have harmful effects that include death of the unborn baby, low birth weight, and premature birth.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Reasons/Razones HIV Testing Campaign

In 2013, CDC launched Reasons/Razones, its first national, bilingual communications campaign to promote HIV testing among Hispanic/Latino gay and bisexual men, who are among the groups hardest hit by HIV in the United States. Reasons/Razones is no longer active, but campaign resources are still available. Videos and posters feature men sharing their reasons for getting tested for HIV and provide information about how to find fast, free, and confidential HIV testing.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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

Your Child or Family Member May Have Dengue Fever

This brochure explains that if a family member has been diagnosed with dengue fever, there are many ways to care fo the patient while they have a fever, and also while the fever is abating.

The brochure is available in English and Spanish.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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

Dengue Clinical Case Management Online Course

This course is designed to provide information to enable physicians to recognize dengue cases early in the clinical course, assess patients appropriately, and provide timely treatment. It consists of 5 modules. The first four modules deal with clinical issues delaing with diagnosis and treatment.

The fifth module explains how to assess patients and diagnose dengue, list the laboratory tests necessary to diagnose patients, distinguish clinical and laboratory features of diseases in the differential diagnosis of dengue, and explain treatment options for patients with dengue in the different phases, including cases with complications.

Last modified: March 25, 2019

Language: English, Spanish

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    Effective Communications: Participant Handbook

    This handbook contains material participants can use during and following training in effective communication. It is intended to be used by World Health Organization (WHO) staffers and trainers.

    The range of topics covered by WHO’s risk communication training includes:

    • Communication basics
    • Community engagement
    • Introduction to emergency risk communication
    • Media communication
    • Material development
    • Pandemic communication
    • Partner communication
    • Social media communication
    • Social mobilization

    Last modified: March 25, 2019

    Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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      Fact Sheet on Family Planning / Contraception

      This is an updated fact sheet from WHO, providing key facts, benefits, and a chart of modern and traditional FP methods.

      Last modified: March 25, 2019

      Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

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        Fake Medicines: Training for Action E-Learning Course

        This is an open access e-learning platform to illustrate the problem of fake medicines and how this crime is being addressed globally. It is divided into 7 modules that show how drugs are manufactured and marketed, how medicine counterfeiting is addressed and how to identify illegal online pharmacies or recognize authentic packaging.

        The program is intended for a wide audience, is free and available in French, English and Spanish. Users can let the platform guide them through a 45 minute program or choose from the various topics in the menu.

        Modules include:

        • Medicinal products: from the molecule to the finished product
        • The marketing of medicinal products
        • Counterfeiting worldwide
        • The internet problem
        • Anti-counterfeiting legislation
        • Anti-counterfeiting action
        • Technical solutions in the fight against this scourge

        Last modified: March 25, 2019

        Language: English, French, Spanish

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