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The following evidence brief has been published as a joint collaboration between SRH/HRP and MCA: Companion of choice during labour and childbirth for improved quality of care. It updates and replaces a 2016 evidence brief on labour companionship wi...
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This is IFRC guidance on the use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. These recommendations are based on the WHO guidelines on epidemic and pandemic-prone acute respiratory infections in health care, updated systematic review of randomized con...
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This document, published by the UNFPA, is an update of an interim guidance originally published under the title ‘COVID-19 Technical Brief Package for Maternity Services Update 1: May 2020.’
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This is the Interim guidance for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers working with older people during COVID-19 response, in Arabic.
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This is the Interim guidance for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers working with older people during COVID-19 response, in French.
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This is the Interim guidance for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers working with older people during COVID-19 response, in Russian.
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This is the Interim guidance for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers working with older people during COVID-19 response, in Spanish.
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This is the Interim guidance for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers working with older people during COVID-19 response, in English.
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To assist with the response to the pandemic, the WHO developed the WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (COVID-ESFT) to allow users to quantify for commodities used in the course of patient and disease management. The current version of...