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
This page is aimed at helping the public distinguish between rumors and facts regarding the response to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Last modified: July 21, 2020
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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:
Last modified: April 13, 2020
Language: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
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
