Maintaining Essential Services – Help Desk COVID-19

Find the following resources about maintaining essential services:

OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE

• WHO Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services

EDUCATION

• Key Messages and Actions for COVID-19 Prevention and control in schools

FIRST AID

• First Aid COVID-19 Games for Children
• Children’s Poster: Preventing COVID-19. Languages: EN, SP, FR, AR.
• How to Wear a Mask Posters. Languages: EN, FR. 
• Further guidance materials produced by the IFRC Global First Aid Reference Centre can be found here.

HARM REDUCTION FOR PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS

• COVID-19 harm reduction

HIV CARE

• COVID-19 and HIV in humanitarian settings: Considerations for preparedness and response – Inter-Agency Task Team on Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Emergencies

IMMUNIZATION  

• Infection Prevention and Control for Immunization during COVID-19

COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH CARE  

• Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Languages: EN, SP, FR, AR.

COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH AND FIRST AID (CBHFA) 

• CBHFA COVID-19 Toolkit. Materials are available in EN, FR, AR, PT.
• CBHFA Training and Behaviour Change. Languages: EN, FR, RU.
• CBHFA Training and Mobilisation. Languages: EN, RU.

MALARIA

• Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) recommendations on Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic

NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDs)

• Infographic on NCDs and COVID-19 (WHO)
• Information Note on NCDs and COVID-19 (WHO)

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

• Pregnancy, breastfeeding and COVID19
• COVID-19 Technical Brief for Maternity Services – UNFPA: Interim Guidance (July 2020)
• COVID-19 Technical Brief for Antenatal Care Services – UNFPA
• AWG – Programmatic Guidance for Sexual and Reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during COVID-19. Languages: EN, SP, FR.
• Companion of choice during labour and childbirth for improved quality of care

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