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Guidance on Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning During COVID-19

This short guide includes important considerations, messages, and resources to support country programs in adapting their FP/RH-focused SBC programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19. Program adaptations and messaging should be adapted in line with country context, available services, and local government response, including that of coordinating bodies responsible for COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement efforts.

The guide is available in English, French, and Spanish.

Last modified: July 21, 2020

Language: English, French, Spanish

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    Safe Ramadan Practices in the Context of the COVID-19: Interim Guidance

    This document highlights public health advice for social and religious practices and gatherings during Ramadan that can be applied across different national contexts.

    Last modified: July 21, 2020

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

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      WHO COVID-19 Learning Resources Application

      The WHO mobile learning app focuses on providing frontline health workers with critical, evidence-based information and tools to improve their skills and capabilities related to the pandemic.

      This COVID-19 Digital Response offers up-to-the-minute guidance, training, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19, as well as how they can protect themselves as they do their critical work.

      The app was created in direct response to an online survey of health workers conducted in March and April 2020 that received 20,000 submissions. Key features include learning guidance, learning materials, and tools organized into the following COVID-19 subject matter areas:

      • Case Management: How to care for COVID-19 patients
      • Infection Prevention Control: Protecting health worker and the community
      • Risk Communication and Community Engagement: Communicating effectively with the public
      • Epidemiology: Distribution, characteristics, and determinants of COVID-19
      • Statistics: Updated news and statistics on the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Laboratory: Testing for COVID-19 in humans
      • Health Services and Systems: Strategic planning and coordinated action
      • International Health Regulations: Public health and international spread of disease
      • Research & Development: Working towards a treatment and a vaccine.
      • Operational Support and Logistics
      • Regional Information

      The WHO mobile learning app is a convenient tool for accessing WHO’s rapidly expanding and evolving training materials and guidance, along with opportunities to participate in virtual classrooms and other live training in six global languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

      Last modified: July 21, 2020

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

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        WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-care Interventions for Health: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

        Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting new approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a health systems perspective and for people who use these interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the following working definition of self-care: Self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health- care provider

        Worldwide, an estimated shortage of 18 million health workers is anticipated by 2030, a record 130 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance, and disease outbreaks are a constant global threat. At least 400 million people worldwide lack access to the most essential health services, and every year 100 million people are plunged into poverty because they have to pay for health care out of their own pockets. There is an urgent need to find innovative strategies that go beyond the conventional health sector response.

        The purpose of this guidance is to develop a peoplecentred, evidence-based normative guideline that will support individuals, communities and countries with quality health services and self-care interventions, based on PHC strategies, comprehensive essential service packages and people-centredness.

        Last modified: July 14, 2020

        Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish

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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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            Behavior Prioritization to Improve SBC Programming During a Public Health Emergency: A Call To Action

            This call-to-action brief (available in English and Spanish) focuses on the rationale for and benefits of behavior prioritization in the context of the Zika outbreak and response.

            It also considers the additional challenges of prioritizing and harmonizing social and behavior change (SBC) programming in the context of public health emergencies. Global and national-level decisionmakers, along with SBC and public health program implementers, can use this document to advocate for behavior prioritization as a necessary step in SBC design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

            Last modified: April 13, 2020

            Language: English, Spanish

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              Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection

              These guidelines were devloped in response to recent evidence that ARV drugs offer significant benefits in preventing HIV transmission.

              The objectives of these guidelines are to provide:

              • Updated, evidence-based clinical recommendations outlining a public health approach to providing ARV drugs for HIV treatment and prevention in the context of the continuum of HIV care, with a focus on settings with limited capacity and resources in the health system
              • Guidance on key operational and service delivery issues that need to be addressed to increase access to HIV services, strengthen the continuum of HIV care and further integrate the provision of ARV drugs into health systems
              • Programmatic guidance for decision-makers and planners at the national level on adapting, setting priorities for and implementing the clinical and operational recommendations and monitoring their implementation and impact

              Last modified: April 13, 2020

              Language: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

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                Avian Influenza Fact Sheet

                Includes key facts, background, clinical features, antiviral treatment, risk factors, pandemic potential, and WHO’s response.

                Source: World Health Organization

                Date of Publication: April 13, 2020

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                Facilitator’s Guide for Training on Interpersonal Communication Skills

                This guide(available in English and Spanish) is for facilitators who will lead trainings in “Interpersonal Communication Skills for the Promotion of Key Behaviors for Zika Prevention”.

                The guide provides step-by-step instructions on implementing the training for their field teams. Each session includes the learning objectives, methodology, and activities along with educational materials, practical exercises, and readings for the participants. The guide includes the key messages from the Zika Prevention Behavior Matrix and the tool Key Tips for the Prevention of Zika: A Guide for Home Visits.

                Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

                Date of Publication: April 13, 2020

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                Key Tips for the Prevention of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya: A Guide for Home Visits

                This tool(available in English and Spanish) is for community volunteers and health promoters to facilitate home visits in support of the promotion of key behaviors for Zika, dengue, and chikungunya prevention. Each card has two sides, one with images to use when talking with the family and the other with information and images to help the volunteer understand and discuss each behavior.

                Organizations, institutions, and projects can adapt the tool to the needs of their organization and country, and Breakthrough ACTION has developed an accompanying guide (in Spanish) that recommends how to adapt the tool to specific needs.

                There are also Zika-specific job aids (available in English and Spanish), along with Spanish versions specific to Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

                Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

                Date of Publication: April 13, 2020

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