Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Course for Frontline Healthcare Workers

A free, mobile-phone accessible, self-, online training designed to equip frontline health-care workers with essential skills to detect, report, and manage EVD safely and effectively​.
– Created by Resolve to Save Lives, based on latest WHO Ebola virus disease guidance​
– Free​
– Available for all countries in Africa​
– Mobile-friendly accessibility​
– Clinical scenarios (focused on primary healthcare level)​
– Engaging learning methods​
– Currently in English, French version available very soon​
– Self-paced flexibility​
– Certificate of participation generated upon completion​
-Takes approximately 40 minutes to complete​
-Covers how to:​
– Recognize EVD cases using standard case definitions​
– Provide initial case management/safe supportive care for suspected cases​
– Take appropriate infection prevention and control measures when a case is suspected​
– Report suspected cases promptly and appropriately​

 

 

https://chocmoose.com/

Videos in multiple local languages, free to download and use.These are deeply moving animated videos created by Chocolate Moose Media (https://chocmoose.com/), written and directed by Firdaus Kharas, OC. The videos are free to view, download and use, making it a powerful resource for churches, clinics, schools, community health workers, broadcasters, humanitarian organizations, local leaders and families in Ebola-affected communities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do Not Let My Death from Ebola Take You Too

Do Not Let My Death From Ebola  You Too is a deeply moving animated video created by Chocolate Moose Media (https://chocmoose.com/), written and directed by Firdaus Kharas, OC, for Harper Hill Global (https://www.harperhill.global/). The video speaks directly to families and communities facing one of the most painful realities of Ebola: the death of someone they love. It is currently available in East Africa English, Uganda English, French, Congolese Swahili, Lingala, Luganda, and Lugbara in low and high resolution.

With tenderness, dignity and emotional clarity, the video acknowledges the natural human desire to bring a loved one home, to hold them, to wash the body, to kiss them goodbye and to honor them according to familiar traditions. But it then delivers a lifesaving message: with Ebola, love must be expressed differently. The last act of love is not touch. It is protection.

The video explains, in a compassionate and culturally sensitive way, that Ebola can hide inside grief. It can spread through the very acts that normally express devotion: an embrace, a washing, a final kiss. Rather than blaming families or attacking tradition, the video reframes safe burial as an act of love, faith and honour. It reassures viewers that the soul of the person who has died is not dishonoured when trained hands carry the body safely. God sees the love, the tears, the prayers and the goodbye spoken from a distance.

This is public health communication at its most humane. It does not lecture. It comforts. It does not frighten people into obedience. It helps them understand that protecting the living is the final gift they can give to the dead.

The message is simple, urgent and unforgettable: Honor the dead. Protect the living. Let love save lives.

The video is free to view, download and use, making it a powerful resource for churches, clinics, schools, community health workers, broadcasters, humanitarian organizations, local leaders and families in Ebola-affected communities.

 

Ebola Communication Preparedness Implementation Kit

Ebola-Comm-Preparedness-Kit-1Now also available in French, this toolkit developed by CCP provides national and local stakeholders, as well as program managers, with key considerations and a roadmap for instituting and implementing critical, relevant, practical and timely communication for responding to the threat of an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak. The I-Kit guides countries in social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and risk communication activity planning, including communication plan development for every stage of an Ebola response. For any country facing a major health crisis, national preparedness plans need to include and support communication efforts. Integration of communication into the preparedness agenda from the outset ensures that preparedness communication is harmonized, relevant, timely, financially supported and aligned among all of the preparedness technical teams. Robust national communication preparedness plans maximize the effectiveness of Ebola communication and equip communication trainers and experts with a common set of tools and modules.

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WHO Outbreaks and Emergency Bulletin

WHO Outbreaks and Emergency Bulletin

WHO Outbreaks and Emergency BulletinThis Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 129 events in the region. Weekly articles cover a range of diseases and currently include, amongst others: COVID-19 across the WHO African region and Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
For each of these events, a brief description, followed by public health measures implemented and an interpretation of the situation is provided.

A table is provided at the end of the bulletin with information on all new and ongoing public health events currently being monitored in the region, as well as recent events that have been controlled and closed. A free subscription to the bulletin is available.

Source: WHO Outbreaks and Emergency Bulletin

Ebola Do's and Don'ts Poster

Ebola Do’s and Don’ts Poster

Ebola Do's and Don'ts PosterThis poster illustrates the correct ways to protect against Ebola. For example: do not touch people with signs of Ebola or who have died of Ebola, but instead always wash your hands with soap and water.

Source: Ebola Do’s and Don’ts Poster

Ebola Poster with Early Signs and symptoms

Ebola – Early Signs and Symptoms

Ebola Poster with Early Signs and symptomsThis poster illustrates the early signs and symptoms of Ebola. Early symptoms include: fever, headache, body ache, diarrhea and weakness.

Source: Ebola – Early Signs and Symptoms

Ebola Staying Safe Brochure

Ebola – Staying Safe Brochure

Ebola Staying Safe BrochureThis illustrated brochure provides facts on EVD, how Ebola is spread, prevention methods and signs and symptoms.

Source: Staying Safe Brochure

The Language Factor

The Language Factor – Lessons from the DRC

The Language FactorThis resource provides lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks in the DRC on adapting to the language needs of communities and centers language as a key trust builder between communities and public health experts.

Source: The Language Factor – Lessons from the DRC

Crisis Communication

A Leaders Guide to Crisis Communication: Lessons from Ebola and COVID-19

Crisis CommunicationThis article (published in Military Medicine (2020) provides tips for leaders on “what to communicate and how to communicate” during a crisis, using lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak as well as lessons now emerging from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This perspective offers practical guidelines for leaders identified here as the 3 W’s and 4C’s of crisis communication.

Source: A Leaders Guide to Crisis Communication