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Health and the Economy: A Convergence Needed to Address COVID-19 and Retake the Path of Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-30)Latin America and the Caribbean is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the highest number of cases of any region in the world. The pandemic has produced an unprecedented economic and social crisis, and it could ... -
Hospital Readiness Checklist for COVID-19, Interim Document - Version 5. 10 February 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-02-10)The purpose of this tool is to help countries verify readiness for COVID-19 in designated hospitals, identifying immediate, high-priority actions for mounting an efficient and timely response to the emergency. This tool ... -
The Immunization Program in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 26 March 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-03-26)This document provides guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It contains recommendations on vaccination and epidemiological surveillance for vaccine- preventable ... -
Increase in Reported Prevalence of Microcephaly in Infants Born to Women Living in Areas with Confirmed Zika Virus Transmission During the First Trimester of Pregnancy - Brazil, 2015
Oliveira, Wanderson Kleber de; Cortez-Escalante, Juan; Oliveira, Wanessa Tenório Gonçalves Holanda De; et al. (2016-06)Widespread transmission of Zika virus by Aedes mosquitoes has been recognized in Brazil since late 2014, and in October 2015, an increase in the number of reported cases of microcephaly was reported to the Brazil Ministry ... -
Interim laboratory biosafety guidelines for the handling and transport of samples associated with the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), 28 January 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-01-28)In January 2020, the etiologic agent responsible for a cluster of severe pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, was identified as a novel beta-coronavirus (2019-nCoV), distinct than SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV (1) (2) (3). The complete ... -
Interpretation of laboratory results for COVID-19 diagnosis, 6 May 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-05-06)Etiological confirmation of COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection can only be made by laboratory tests. In general, the currently available assays for COVID-19 can be classified into two groups: • The first group (virological ... -
Key Considerations for Integrating Gender Equality into Health Emergency and Disaster Response: COVID-19, 4 June 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-06-04)This document highlights key considerations for integrating gender equality into health emergency and disaster response, particularly in the context of COVID-19. Due to existing gender-based inequalities, specific and ... -
Laboratory Guidelines for Detection and Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection, February 01, 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-02-01)Coronaviruses are a group of highly diverse RNA virus in the Coronaviridae family that are divided in 4 genera: alpha, beta, gamma and delta that cause disease varying from mild to severe in human and animals. There are ... -
Laboratory Guidelines for the Detection and Diagnosis of COVID-19 Virus Infection, 8 July 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-08)In January 2020, the etiologic agent responsible for a cluster of severe pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, was identified as being a novel betacoronavirus, distinct from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. On 11 February 2020, the ... -
List of Priority Medical Devices in the context of COVID-19 (provisional recommendations, 06 April 2020) 3rd Version
Pan American Health Organization (2020-04-06)Objective of the document: The list of priority medical devices in the context of COVID-19 provides technical descriptions and specifications for the management of patients with suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 infection ... -
Maintaining Essential Services for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-20)The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on people, economies, and health services. For people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), the impact has included disruptions in access to health services at ... -
Measures to ensure the continuity of the response to malaria in the Americas during the COVID-19 pandemic, 24 April 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-05-06)The PAHO Regional Malaria Program is aware of the imminent negative impact that the present COVID-19 pandemic is causing in the countries and their health systems, and consequently, in the fight against malaria in the ... -
Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics Options: Summary of Evidence. Rapid Review
Pan American Health Organization (2020-12-18)Summary of rapid systematic reviews, from the 8th edition of the document and above. -
Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: Summary of Rapid Systematic Reviews, 16 June 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-06-16)Take home message thus far: • We examined 24 therapeutic options thus far; currently, there is no evidence of any important benefit from any therapeutic option (though remdesivir is revealing promise as one option based ... -
Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: Summary of Rapid Systematic Reviews. Rapid Review, 13 July 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-13)This document includes the results of a rapid systematic review of currently available literature. The information included in this review reflects the evidence as of the date posted in the document. Yet, recognizing that ... -
Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: summary of rapid systematic reviews. Rapid Review, 22 April 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-04-22)This document includes the results of a rapid systematic review of current available literature. The information included in this review reflects the evidence as of the date posted in the document. Yet, recognizing that ... -
Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: Summary of Rapid Systematic Reviews. Rapid Review, 8 September 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-09-11)More than 200 therapeutic options or their combinations are being investigated in more than 1,700 clinical trials. In this review, we have examined 40 therapeutic options. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is ... -
PAHO Does Not Recommend Taking Products that Contain Chlorine Dioxide, Sodium Chlorite, Sodium Hypochlorite, or Derivatives, 16 July 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-16)PAHO does not recommend oral or parenteral use of chlorine dioxide or sodium chlorite-based products for patients with suspected or diagnosed COVID-19 or for anyone else. There is no evidence of their effectiveness and the ... -
Pan American Health Organization Response to COVID-19 in the Americas, 17 January to 31 May 2020
Pan American Health Organization (2020-07-06)Following an outbreak of a novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China, rapid community, regional and international spread has occurred across the globe, with exponential growth in the number of ... -
Prehospital Emergency Medical System Readiness Checklist for COVID-19
Pan American Health Organization (2020-03-02)Introduction:Pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) facilitate initial initiate care through basic life support (BLS) and/or advanced life support (ALS) and the transfer of injured or sick patients from the site of ...