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Displaying 90 of about 134 resultsThe world is facing a global health and economic crisis unlike any, since the second world war — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and turning people’s lives upside down. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis, and Asia’s children, especially the most vulnerable, are on the brink of severe hunger, in…
This communication aims at ensuring the European Union's (EU) short-term health preparedness in case of further COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe. It draws particular attention to the need to reduce the burden of the 2020/2021 seasonal flu, so to mitigate the additional strain on health systems should this coincide with a further outbreak of COVID-19. For ea…
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis are posing huge challenges, raising many unknowns and imposing wrenching trade-offs. Both crises are global, but their impacts are deeply local. The policy response to both crises needs to be rapid, even if it is rough around the edges. But countries cannot pull this off on their own—the global cr…
The current outbreak of Ebola in eastern DR Congo, beginning in 2018, emerged in a complex and violent political and security environment. Community-level prevention and outbreak control measures appear to be dependent on public trust in relevant authorities and information, but little scholarship has explored these issues. The authors aimed to investig…
The Ebola virus disease is of global concern due to the virulent nature of the virus with a case fatality rate varying from 25% to 90%. In a bit to protect her citizens, Cameroon took measures to prevent the virus from invading its territory during the West African Outbreak of 2013-2015. This research had as objectives to assess the extent to which reco…
A l’échelle nationale, une stratégie concertée, intégrée, fondée sur le plan scientifique, prenant en compte les principales dimensions du défi que pose Covid19, est sans doute le fondement d’une réponse réussie à cette pandémie.
Dans cette lettre scientifique, sur la base de Climprospect ( www.cres-edu.org), est proposée une approche pour construire un…
This case study highlights the gains and shortfalls with the Ebola virus disease preparedness interventions within the various contexts of nine countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against the background of a renewed and growing commitment for global epidemic preparedness highlighted during recent World Health Assembly events.…
This paper presents a new Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) of which the primary goal is to offer assistance to food-insecure people affected by natural disasters and HIV and AIDS in Malawi. It addresses: (a) disaster risk reduction and livelihood protection on the topics of HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and food for assets (FFA); and (b) relief as…
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This issue explores disaster risk reduction: the types of potential disasters, their effect on poor communities and ways to mitigate disasters. It also addresses preparing for a pandemic and ensuring the health and safety of field staff as well as the role climate change plays in increasing the risk for disasters…
This paper shares viewpoints on the need to develop a sustainable forecasting capacity in the African region for better health and social outcomes during and after public health emergencies in the region, and globally. Globally, forecasting is rapidly gaining acceptance in healthcare and its use in public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandem…
The International Recovery Platform Herald (IRP Herald) is the periodic newsletter of the International Recovery Platform. The IRP Herald reports on IRP activities and serves as the knowledge report for the annual International Recovery Forum, as well as recovery-related content from other major conferences.
IRP Herald Volume 32 is the knowledge report…
This study reviews available research on drought-related cholera outbreaks in Africa and identify a variety of potential mechanisms through which these outbreaks occurred, including poor access to water, marginalization of refugees and nomadic populations, expansion of informal urban settlements and demographic risks. Africa has historically seen severa…
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Allianz RE joined forces to support vulnerable communities in Morocco and Ghana in developing integrated risk management approaches for climate risks. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit during the project period, the partnership also aimed to better understand MSME resilience in lig…
In 2008, Somalia introduced an electronic based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for real time detection and response to alerts of epidemic prone diseases in a country experiencing a complex humanitarian situation. EWARN was deactivated between 2008 to 2016 due to civil conflict and reactivated in 2017 during severe drought during a chol…
This national guideline was established in order to guide policy-makers and health professionals regarding the coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic in Ethiopia. It details the standardized approach for utilization of the limited resource of the country, minimizes dilemma and confusion on case management. This prevention and treatment guideline encompa…