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Viral haemorrhagic fevers question bank

This Question Bank is relevant to outbreaks where person-to-person transmission has been identified as significant to an outbreak's spread and where patient experiences must be understood for a community-centred response.

SSHAP

2025

Briefing

Child engagement in the context of disease outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa

This brief explores why, when and how to engage children in the prevention, response and recovery stages of disease outbreaks.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region

El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural production, greater food insecurity and malnutrition, increased transmission of infectious diseases and effects on…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Situational analysis: Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania

This Key Considerations brief provides an overview of the Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, as well as contextual factors to inform considerations for responses in both countries.

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Engaging Young People in Latin American and the Caribbean in the COVID-19 Response

This brief draws on academic and grey literature exploring how COVID-19 affects young people, as well as literature describing the pandemic response in Latin American and the Caribbean and other regions. It offers considerations on how to engage youth by…

SSHAP

2022

Briefing

Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

Key considerations for COVID-19 response and recovery in indigenous populations, with a particular focus on the Amazon region of South America

SSHAP

2021

Briefing

Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks

Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics

SSHAP

2021

Briefing

Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery

How health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to, and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach.

SSHAP

2021

Briefing

Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties. It proposes strategies to guide actors involved in vaccine development, communication and deployment…

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Key Considerations: Emerging Evidence on Shielding Vulnerable Groups During COVID-19

Considerations around the social acceptability and implementation of shielding in low- and middle-income countries

SSHAP

2020

Evidence review

Broader Health Impacts of Vertical Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs)

Review of the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs

SSHAP

2020

Evidence review

Considerations for Home and Community-Based Care for COVID-19

Why home care is important, and an overview of existing guidance and models, with an emphasis on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Assessing key considerations for burial practices, death and mourning in epidemics

This Practical Approaches brief looks the considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements

Key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.

SSHAP

2020