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IFRC: COVID19 and Recovery (updated by 25/08/20) This paper clarifies key concepts and terminology and proposes a general recovery approach for the COVID-19 Operation. It does not include detailed technical guidance for specific recovery interventi...
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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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The checklist “Implementing COVID-19 responses in situations of armed conflict and other sensitive and insecure contexts” aims at being a pragmatic way to highlight SAF-inspired actions/reflection prompts for National Societies under each SAF el...
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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...
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This document is based on WHO’s Rational Use of PPE for COVID-19 and Considerations During Severe Shortages. For WHO guidance on the extended use and reuse of PPE, please see: Table 2. Options for temporary measures due to the shortage of Perso...
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There are two resources on the impact on COVID-19 on trafficking in persons (TiP): 1) A "Factsheet" - for a general audience This is a quick reference tool to support National Societies to consider how the Covid-19 global pandemic may place communiti...
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an essential and ongoing process owned and guided by the National Society’s senior management to ensure that the National Society continues to function during times of crisis, and resume business processes when...
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Patient Blood Management During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. Many of us are hearing of potential shortages of blood components and the call from blood centers for volunteers to donate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Society for the Advancement of Bl...
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The following measures included in the document can help to address staff concerns about their own safety. Front line blood center employees are directly addressed in CDC’s Interim Infection Control Guidance on COVID-19 for Personnel at Blood and P...
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Strategies for a safe and sufficient blood supply during a pandemic. Find in the document some suggested strategies that blood services and other agencies (ie. WHO, AABB, ISBT) have found beneficial during COVID-19.