WHO’s Science in 5 on COVID-19 : medical oxygen
Date:
09/04/2021
Medical oxygen is an essential medicine in the treatment of COVID-19. How is it used? Why is there a shortage in some countries and what are WHO, partners and Governments doing about it? WHO’s Dr Janet Diaz explains in Science in 5.
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Dissolved Oxygen/prevention & control, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Pandemics/prevention & control, Oxygen Inhalation Therapy, Health Communication, Health Consortia, Access to Essential Medicines and Health Technologies, Financial Resources in Health/economics, COVID-19, Medical oxygen
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros message: COVID-19 anniversary and looking towards 2021
Date:
30/12/2020
December 31, 2020, marks the first anniversary of a report of a cluster of cases of “pneumonia of unknown cause” in Wuhan, China, which was later identified as a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and led to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, says there is light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against COVID-19. But going in...
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Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Pandemics/prevention & control, Health Communication, Healthcare Financing, Universal Health Coverage, Holidays, Masks, Social Isolation, Quarantine, COVID-19
Live Q&A on violence against women in time of COVID-19
Date:
10/03/2021
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Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Pandemics/prevention & control, Social Isolation/psychology, Quarantine/psychology, Violence Against Women, Health Communication, 57433, Health Services Accessibility, Health Personnel/education, Health Human Resource Training, Social Stigma, Women's Health Services/organization & administration, Battered Women/psychology, COVID-19
Live Q&A on COVID-19 and vulnerable populations with Dr Mike Ryan, Filippo Grandi, Teresa Zakaria
Date:
24/02/2021
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Coronavirus Infections/immunology, Pneumonia, Viral/immunology, Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Betacoronavirus/immunology, Pandemics/prevention & control, Viral Vaccines/supply & distribution, Epidemiological Monitoring, Health Communication, Social Isolation, Quarantine, Vulnerable Populations, Refugee Camps, Health Services Accessibility, Immunization Programs/organization & administration, COVID-19, Covax
WHO SAGE presenting its interim recommendations on the use of AstraZeneca Vaccine against COVID-19
Date:
10/02/2021
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Coronavirus Infections/immunology, Pneumonia, Viral/immunology, Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Viral Vaccines/immunology, Betacoronavirus/immunology, Epidemiological Monitoring, Health Communication, Viral Vaccines/supply & distribution, Vaccine Potency, Betacoronavirus/genetics, Mutation/genetics, DNA, Viral/genetics, Coronavirus Infections/genetics, Pneumonia, Viral/genetics, Risk Groups, COVID-19, AstraZeneca, Oxford
Live Q&A on tuberculosis with Tereza Kasaeva in time of COVID-19. Ask WHO on how to end TB!
Date:
23/03/2021
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Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Pandemics/prevention & control, Epidemiological Monitoring, Americas/epidemiology, Tuberculosis/epidemiology, Vulnerable Populations, Health Communication, Tuberculosis/prevention & control, Triage, Risk Groups, Health Services Accessibility, Health Human Resource Training, Health Personnel/education, COVID-19
Live Q&A on COVID-19 virus variants & control measures with Dr Mike Ryan & Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.
Date:
17/03/2021
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Epidemiological Monitoring, Betacoronavirus/genetics, Viral Vaccines/supply & distribution, Coronavirus Infections/genetics, Pneumonia, Viral/genetics, Mutation/genetics, DNA, Viral/genetics, Social Isolation, Health Communication, COVID-19
Experts and gamers join forces to fight COVID-19 via Plague Inc: the Cure game
Date:
31/03/2021
Ndemic Creations and WHO are launching a public awareness campaign bringing together gamers and experts to promote actions everyone can take to stay healthy and learn to detect and act upon misinformation. WHO and GOARN experts comment on decisions made by gamers in real-time and compare it with public health management in real-life scenarios. The game also showcases WHO health and safety COVID-19...
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Video Games, Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control, Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control, Pandemics/prevention & control, Health Promotion, Health Education, Epidemiological Monitoring, Health Communication, World Health Organization, Communication, COVID-19, Misinformation, Plague Inc
Live Q&A on COVID-19 with Dr Mike Ryan and Dr Maria Van Kerkhove
Date:
31/03/2021
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Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology, Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology, Pandemics/statistics & numerical data, Epidemiological Monitoring, Americas/epidemiology, Health Communication, Risk Groups, Immunization Programs/organization & administration, Betacoronavirus/immunology, Coronavirus Infections/immunology, Viral Vaccines/supply & distribution, Pneumonia, Viral/immunology, Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use, COVID-19
WHO’s Science in 5 on COVID-19: vaccines, variants & doses
Date:
26/03/2021
If you have already had COVID-19 do you still need both doses of the vaccine? Do these vaccines protect you against infection? Do they protect us against variants? WHO’s Dr Katherine O’Brien answers these questions in Science in 5 this week.
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Betacoronavirus/immunology, Coronavirus Infections/immunology, Pneumonia, Viral/immunology, Pandemics/prevention & control, Viral Vaccines/immunology, Immunization Programs/organization & administration, Vaccine Potency, Betacoronavirus/genetics, Coronavirus Infections/genetics, Pneumonia, Viral/genetics, Mutation/genetics, DNA, Viral/genetics, Health Communication, COVID-19
