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COVID-19 West and Central Africa

May 21, 2020

This is a comprehensive online library of the regional working group for community engagement to fight coronavirus. The readymade tools available on this website are designed to be culturally adapted and context specific.

Click here to explore the website.

Sustaining Public Health Systems through Effective Communication: Learnings from the Pandemic

May 20, 2020

Coronavirus-19 is now reality in virtually all countries in the world. The manner of communication — notably by government leaders — can be diverse and spotty at times — causing disparate levels of effectiveness. Timely, credible and regular communication is critical to keeping citizens safe and to managing the Covid pandemic.

Please join in as health and communication experts from one of the most populous countries in the world and the most resource-rich country share their insights.

The Panel: Aman Gupta, Prof Vivekanand Jha: Anjali Nayyar and Denise Gray-Felder

In association with The George Institute for Global Health and Health Issues India

May 21, 2020 06:30 PM (India time)

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4015894349119/WN_NAaohfAjSiaI408u0Xhs7g

Launch of the WHO Academy and the WHO Info mobile applications

May 20, 2020

WHO announces the launch of the WHO Academy app designed to support health workers during COVID-19 and the WHO Info app designed to inform the general public.

Read more: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-05-2020-launch-of-the-who-academy-and-the-who-info-mobile-applications

COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams

May 20, 2020

This is a short guide, with important steps and resources, on how country programs can track and address rumors around COVID-19 (as needed). The guide includes a number of great resources and links while also sharing nuggets from global, collective thinking around rumors.

The guide includes sections on:

Coordinating
Discovering the rumors
Verifying the information
Engaging the community

Read here: https://covid19communicationnetwork.org/covid19resource/technical-brief-covid-19-rumor-tracking-guidance-for-field-teams-2/

Disrupting COVID-19 Stigma

May 20, 2020

This short guide includes important considerations and resources to support country programs in recognizing and working to reduce stigma around COVID-19.

Read here: https://covid19communicationnetwork.org/covid19resource/disrupting-covid-19-stigma-technical-brief/