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The use of accurate, real-time data to inform decision-making is essential for infectious disease control.
Posted on 02/02/2021
Alert-level systems should form a core component of effective COVID-19 preparedness, response, and risk communication.
Posted on 12/23/2020
Promoting mask use is one of the key interventions governments, communities, businesses, and other organizations can implement to control COVID-19.
Alert-level systems provide a framework to support clear decision-making, improve accountability and communicate with the public to ensure necessary behavior change.
A resource to help decision-makers manage and adapt COVID-19 responses as they move through different phases of the response from preparedness through recovery.
As states rollout plans to gradually re-open society, there are four essential actions to re-open society as soon and as safely as possible and prevent another explosive spread of the COVID-19.
Posted on 05/12/2020
Methods for making strong, medium and mild chlorine solutions for disinfecting various equipment, surfaces and linens.
From developing effective messages to making it easier to get vaccinated, here are a few quick tips to build confidence and demand in COVID-19 vaccines.
New report highlights risks to health care workers and issues recommendations to protect them.
Posted on 01/13/2021
Resources on COVID-19 vaccines for public health communicators
Posted on 12/21/2020
Amélioration globale de la qualité du dépistage, de l’investigation des cas et de la recherche des contacts pour lutter contre la COVID-19.
A checklist to support public health communicators in preparing and implementing a vaccine communications strategy.
Posted on 12/22/2020
End-to-end quality improvement of COVID-19 testing, case investigation and contact tracing
Africa remains the continent least affected by COVID-19 cases and deaths, despite large outbreaks in some African Union (AU) Member States (e.g., South Africa, Morocco). However, people living in Africa are not immune from the devastating economic impact of the crisis.
As we enter the final month of this year, we are confronted by many grim realities. More than two thousand Americans are dying every day from COVID-19, and hospital ICUs are full all around the country.
Since December 2019, more than 45 million people have been infected with COVID-19 and over a million have died. Older adults and people living with NCDs experience higher rates of severe complications and death from COVID-19. This guide offers proactive, […]
With high COVID-19 case counts, Health Department staff may not be able to notify your close contacts. Follow this simple guide to let people know that they have been exposed to COVID-19.
If you have been notified that you were exposed to COVID-19, this guide will help you with your next steps.
When traditional methods fail, Facebook can facilitate more rapid communication with people who are infected with or exposed to an infectious disease.
Posted on 11/20/2020
We have compiled “top tips” from jurisdictions across the United States working to make case investigation and contact tracing programs more effective.
Be a one. If you test positive for COVID, or think you’ve been around someone who has, make sure people you’ve been around recently for more than a few minutes stay safe.
Tips for virtual meetings and webinars
This guide is designed to help cities reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission within urban mass transit systems—whether publicly or privately operated—while continuing to provide safe mobility for essential workers and access to essential services. This guide describes how community-wide […]
Posted on 09/09/2020
UNA GUÍA PARA ENTORNOS DE INGRESOS BAJOS Y MEDIOS
Posted on 07/17/2020
As escolas desempenham um papel essencial no desenvolvimento educacional e social das crianças e no funcionamento da economia. Precisamos reabrir as escolas o mais breve possível, mas precisamos fazê-lo com cuidado, priorizando a segurança dos alunos e suas famílias, professores […]
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Designed for use during the time of COVID-19 and beyond, this guidance provides tips and best practices for building a successful CoP (Community of Practice) in a virtual setting.
Laws that seek to address public health emergencies should have specific characteristics, adapted and tailored to the country context and legal system. These characteristics are outlined in the document.
Posted on 08/21/2020
Guide consacré aux milieux à revenus faibles et intermédiaires.
Public health departments around the United States are working daily to meet the threat of COVID-19— balancing the dual priorities of protecting public health while safely reopening communities and economies. Our US COVID-19 Response Program works with public health officials […]
Note: The next biweekly report will be skipped to facilitate more in-depth PERC analysis, to be released early September. The biweekly briefs will begin again in September.
Tips and best practices during COVID-19
Conseils et bonnes pratiques pour animer en ligne des réunions, des formations et des ateliers
Best Practices for Clean Air Communicators
Tips and best practices for facilitating online meetings, trainings and workshops during COVID-19 and beyond.
There is still so much we don’t know about COVID-19, but we have important decisions to make. The question of whether and how to re-open schools this fall is one of the most difficult decisions.
Posted on 07/29/2020
Las capacitaciones o reuniones en persona deben llevarse a cabo sólo cuando las sesiones virtuales no sean posible.
Posted on 07/02/2020
Uso de evidencia para activar y desactivar las medidas
In light of recent media reports of increased food insecurity due to COVID-19, this report includes an in-depth spotlight on COVID-19’s impact on food security across Africa (where data is available). In many cases, countries struggled with food security prior […]
The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance to implement rapid mortality surveillance (RMS) and measure excess mortality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on implementation in low-resource settings. This includes settings with largely […]
Existing data on respiratory diseases from surveillance and routine health information systems can be leveraged to identify changes in patterns of disease that could reflect the emergence of COVID-19.
7 Key Components Needed to Implement Telemedicine
A robust response to COVID-19 that takes cardiovascular risk factors into account can mitigate the health, social, and economic ravages of the pandemic. In addition to strong public health and social measures and drug and vaccine development, the health system […]
In the absence of effective antiviral medications or vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are the only line of defense against this pandemic threat.
As a freedom-restricting measure, quarantine needs to be provided for and carried out in accordance with national law and subject to judicial or administrative review.
This document provides quick access to existing global guidance documents for in-country adaptation and addresses gaps and remedies for application to low-resource settings, including primary care sites and facilities with limited personal protective equipment (PPE) availability and without respiratory care […]
Tools and recommendations for Primary Health Centers during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including Screening and Triage, considerations for specific populations and comorbidities, and home care guidance.
A guide for low- and middle-income settings.
Les formations ou les réunions en présentiel ne devraient être réalisées que lorsque les modalités à distance ou virtuelles ne sont pas possibles
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Posted on 07/09/2020
Report that compiles and synthesizes data on COVID-19 trends in Africa from multiple sources for the week of June 16-29, 2020. Data include official reports of cases and deaths, reports of government response measures, analysis of traditional and social media […]
Posted on 07/07/2020
In-person trainings or meetings should be conducted only when remote/virtual trainings or meetings are not feasible.
Report that compiles and synthesizes data on COVID-19 trends in Africa from multiple sources for the week of June 8-June 22, 2020. Data include official reports of cases and deaths, reports of government response measures, analysis of traditional and social […]
Posted on 06/30/2020
Posted on 06/29/2020
Schools play an essential role in the educational and social development of children and in the functioning of the economy. We need to reopen schools this fall, but we have to do it carefully.
Posted on 06/24/2020
Esta nota informativa descreve considerações importantes para uma estratégia de comunicação de risco e engajamento da comunidade que apoie a implementação eficaz de medidas de saúde pública e sociais para a COVID-19.
Posted on 06/23/2020
Report that compiles and synthesizes data on COVID-19 trends in Africa from multiple sources for the week of May 28-June 3, 2020. Data include official reports of cases and deaths, reports of government response measures, analysis of traditional and social […]
This briefing note outlines considerations for using cash transfers to alleviate the negative social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the public health and social measures deployed to respond to it.
Posted on 06/22/2020
“Box it In” with effective testing, isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine to re-open society
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The COVID-19 Risk Communication Hub offers scientifically accurate, adaptable messages to help people be prepared and stay informed.
Posted on 06/05/2020
Implementação de intervenções não farmacêuticas. Base de evidências e aplicação ao contexto Africano.
Posted on 05/26/2020
Fornecer acesso rápido a documentos de orientação global existentes para adaptação no país e abordar lacunas e soluções para aplicação em locais com poucos recursos, incluindo centros de atendimento primário e instalações com disponibilidade limitada de equipamentos de proteção individual […]
Este informe ofrece orientación práctica para adaptar las medidas sociales y de salud pública (Public Health and Social Measures, PHSM) a los contextos locales en los ámbitos con recursos limitados, con un enfoque en mantener los beneficios de la salud […]
This document provides practical guidance on using existing data from respiratory disease surveillance systems and hospital-based routine data systems to supplement COVID-19 surveillance and inform response activities.
This technical package helps guide governments in rapid mortality surveillance, informing decision-making based on the true impact of COVID-19 within their countries.
Posted on 05/21/2020
Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) is a public-private partnership that supports evidence-based measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on African Union Member States. PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.
Posted on 05/13/2020
A calculator to estimate excess mortality and help provide a more complete picture needed to support evidence-based policymaking.
This tool is designed to support risk communication, community engagement staff and responders working with national health authorities, and other partners to develop, implement and monitor an effective action plan for communicating effectively with the public, engaging with communities, local […]
Esta guía lo ayudará a: priorizar las actividades de los medios que serán más efectivas durante la pandemia, decidir cuándo realizar conferencias de prensa, crear materiales escritos para la prensa.
Posted on 05/05/2020
Ce guide vous aidera à : etablir des priorités entre les activités media pour que la communication soit la plus efficace durant la pandémie, décider quand organiser une conférence de presse, créer des documents pour la presse.
This guide will help you to: prioritize media activities that will be the most effective during the pandemic, decide when to host press conferences, and create written materials for the press.
Details on the role of Global Fund and Gavi in the COVID-19 response and details on their activities.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented threat to the health and wellbeing of people around the world. Through Health Defense Operations Funding the US can ensure we are able to prevent, detect and respond to health threats.
The contact tracing playbook provides U.S. state and local health departments with technical guidance and tools for rapidly setting up and implementing contact tracing programs for COVID-19 in their jurisdictions.
Open letter to Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Minority Leader Schumer, and Minority Leader McCarthy on the need to build a sustainable base appropriation for the core set of public health programs that prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks.
Posted on 05/06/2020
We support countries with a range of interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission while preserving essential services and building health system capacity, with a focus on sustained global epidemic prevention efforts.
This calculator is designed to provide a quick rough estimate of total COVID-19 cases in a population, based on the number of COVID-19 deaths.
This briefing note outlines the groups that should be prioritized when there are testing constraints.
Posted on 05/04/2020
The excel calculator helps estimate staff resources needed for scaling up contact tracing.
This course provides a general introduction to COVID-19 and emerging respiratory viruses and is intended for public health professionals, incident managers and personnel working for the United Nations, international organizations and NGOs.
The linked presentation provides a succinct overview on when and how to scale-up contact tracing for COVID-19.
This weekly legal and policy review is a review of new laws, litigation and other legal developments around COVID-19 during the period specified. The review highlights novel issues from around the world that may be relevant to policymakers and the […]
This series, the first of its kind for a CDC emergency response, provides brief summaries of new COVID-19-related studies on many topics, including epidemiology, clinical treatment and management, laboratory science, and modeling. These summaries are released every Tuesday and Friday.
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Resolve to Save Lives low cost, simple, practical guidelines on hygiene and social distancing interventions.
Resolve to Save Lives practical tips on how to avoid being exposed or exposing others to COVID-19.
Helpful actions for individuals, older adults, health care providers, and society & government to take.
Tips for chronic disease patients (Thai)
Tips for chronic disease patients (Chinese)
Tips for chronic disease patients (English)
Tips for health care providers (Arabic)
Tips for health care providers (Chinese)
Tips for health care providers (English)
Data insight: Assessing COVID-19 resurgence Read the full Insight: Assessing COVID-19 resurgence As some countries and US states roll back the public health and social measures (PHSMs, also known as physical or social distancing) enacted over the past several weeks, […]
Our weekly science review is a snapshot of the new and emerging scientific evidence related to COVID-19.
Data insight Past, current and future COVID-19 infections: the size of the iceberg and what tests can and can’t tell us The public health response to COVID-19 is informed by available case and death counts and the modeled projections that […]
Data insight: Using data to assess adherence with public health and social measures can better inform decision-making Public health and social measures (PHSMs, also known as non-pharmaceutical interventions or NPIs) are an essential component of a COVID-19 response strategy. These […]
Draft guidance for implementing widescale contact tracing to contain COVID-19.
This weekly science review is a snapshot of the scientific evidence around COVID-19 during the period specified. It is an objective review of important topics and articles, not a guide for policy or program implementation. The findings captured are subject […]
New Insights Data insight: Syndromic surveillance should be explored as an early signal for COVID-19 Syndromic surveillance is an innovative surveillance technique designed to detect illness clusters early, before diagnoses are confirmed and reported to public health agencies, and to […]
Loss of smell or taste in COVID-19 Main message: There are increased reports of loss of smell or taste in those infected with COVID-19. More information is needed on the frequency, onset and duration of these symptoms to inform COVID-19 […]
New Scientific Insights COVID-19 Mortality by age It is widely accepted that case-fatality rates for COVID-19 increase with age.Age-specific death rates from China, South Korea, Italy and the United States all confirm the association between age and severity of illness.The […]
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Conseils et bonnes pratiques pendant la pandémie de COVID-19