Santé infantile et COVID-19

Ressources sur la COVID-19 pour les intervenants en santé des enfants

Nous avons identifié les ressources clés que les acteurs de la santé infantile doivent connaître afin d’aider au mieux les pays à continuer de fournir des services de santé infantile qui sauvent des vies pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. Veuillez envoyer un e-mail à childhealthtaskforce@jsi.com avec toute ressource supplémentaire à présenter sur cette page.

Cliquez ici pour une liste complète des ressources sur la COVID-19 et la santé des enfants partagées sur le site Web.

Veuillez noter que le Child Health Task Force n’a pas créé ces documents et que tous les droits appartiennent aux organisations auteurs.

Orientation opérationnelle

• Operational Planning Guidelines to Support Country Preparedness and Response: WHO's overarching practical guide for UN Country Teams and partners to develop a COVID-19 strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to provide immediate support to national governments to prepare for and respond to COVID-19. 
• Maintaining Essential Health Service - Operational Guidance for the COVID-19 Context: This document recommends practical actions that countries can take at national, subregional and local levels to reorganize and safely maintain access to high-quality, essential health services in the pandemic context. This document supersedes the earlier Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak and complements the recently-released Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Continuing essential sexual reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services during COVID-19 pandemic - practical considerations: This document builds upon the previous Regional Guidance published, which provided high-level guidance to countries for continuing good quality and equitable sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services during the COVID19 pandemic. It provides principles, strategic actions and a few examples of operational actions that countries have found useful for preparing plans to continue prioritized SRMNCAH services during the pandemic. The present document includes practical operational actions for possible redesigning and modifications of essential services for different areas of SRMNCAH life-course continuum, within the continuity plans prepared by the countries.
• Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools: WHO, UNICEF and IFRC recommend clear and actionable guidance for school administrators, teachers and staff; caregivers and parents; as well as students and children. The recommendations focus on safe operations through the prevention, early detection and control of COVID-19 in schools and other educational facilities. The American Academy of Pediatrics also offers COVID-19 Guidance for Safe Schools. UNICEF also offers supplemental guidance materials in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese on a range of topics from cleaning and supply to mental health and psychosocial support to the protection of children in and out of school in the context of COVID-19.
• Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines: Updated guidance from the WHO and UNICEF on how to develop and strengthen a national deployment and vaccination plan.

Conseils cliniques

• Living Guidance for Clinical Management of COVID-19: This WHO guidance document is intended for clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients during all phases of their disease (i.e. screening to discharge).  The guidance was updated on November 23, 2021, and includes new recommendations regarding hospitalized children with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C). Previous versions: January 25, 2021 and March 13, 2021.
• Clinical Care of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) Toolkit - COVID-19 Adaptation: This toolkit is intended for clinicians working in acute care hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, managing adult and paediatric patients with acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock.
• Clinical Care Guidance, Children with COVID-19: This guidance from the U.S. Center's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides healthcare providers with up to date information available on children with COVID-19 and current treatment practices for managing pediatric patients.
• WHO Case Report Form and Scientific Brief: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID: In response to reports from Europe and North America describing clusters of children with a multisystem inflammatory condition potentially linked to COVID-19 and the urgent need for collection of standardized data describing clinical presentations, severity, outcomes, and epidemiology, WHO has developed a preliminary case definition and case report form for multisystem inflammatory disorder in children and adolescents and encourages pediatricians across the world to use this form to report these cases if seen.
• Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS) - guidance for clinicians: This document for clinicians, which has been developed after expert review of the cases, includes a case definition and approach to clinical management.

Informations régionales et nationales

• WHO/AFRO COVID-19 Technical Documents: The WHO Regional Office for Africa has a comprehensive list of technical documents on important topics for countries in the region, such as case management, IPC, continuity of essential services, coordination at points of entry, holding elections, and COVID-19 Q&As. 
• Compendium of Resources to Support COVID-19 Response in LMICs: PATH has compiled a list of resources geared towards LMICs that includes key technical and policy guidance as well as resources to maintain essential health services, support evidence-informed policy making, data-driven decision-making, and to see what other countries are doing.
• ECOWAS COVID-19 Dashboard
• OECD Country Policy Tracker
• Afghanistan
  • Ministry of Public Health Guidelines for COVID-19
• Ethiopia
  • National Comprehensive COVID-19 Clinical Management Handbook for Ethiopia (2nd Edition)
• Ghana
  • Provisional Standard Treatment Guidelines for Novel Coronavirus Infection
• India
  • Guidelines for Management of COVID-19 in Children (below 18 years)
• Kenya
  • Interim Guidance on Continuity of Essential Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Guidelines on the Management of Pediatric Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Liberia
  • Interim Guidance on Clinical Care for Patients with COVID-19 in Liberia
• Malawi
  • COVID-19 National Information Dashboard
• Mali
  • PRÉVENTION ET CONTRÔLE DE L’INFECTION (PCI) POUR LE NOUVEAU CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
• Niger
  • Plan de Préparation et de Réponse au Nouveau Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Nigeria
  • National Interim Guidelines for Clinical Management of COVID-19
• Pakistan
  • National Guidelines for Management of COVID-19 in Children
• Zambia
  • Ministry of General Education COVID-19 Guidelines for Schools  

Soins communautaires et agents de santé des enfants

• Interim Guidance - Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: This guidance, developed by the IFRC, WHO, and UNICEF, outlines the role of community-based health care and adaptations to keep people safe, maintain the continuity of essential services, and ensure an effective response to COVID-19. 
• The role of community health workers in COVID-19 vaccination: Implementation support guide: This guide developed by the WHO outlines roles and opportunities for CHWs in national vaccination plans. 
• COVID-19 Global Risk Communication and Community Engagement Strategy: This tool is designed to support risk communication, community engagement (RCCE) staff working with national health authorities, as well as other partners, to develop, implement and monitor an effective action plan for communicating effectively with the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Community Health Impact Coalition’s CHW COVID-19 Workflow Resources: This dynamic document compiles resources from hundreds of organizations on a wide range of technical areas relevant to CHWs and specific country contexts. Led by Community Health Impact Coalition, the group meets weekly and frequently updates these set of resources. 

Matières premières et chaîne d'approvisionnement

• WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool: The WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT) is designed to help governments, partners, and other stakeholders to estimate potential requirements for essential supplies to respond to the current pandemic of COVID-19.
• WHO’s Emergency Global Supply Chain System (COVID-19) catalogue: This catalogue lists all medical devices, including personal protective equipment, medical equipment, medical consumables, single use devices, laboratory and test-related devices that may be requested through the COVID-19 Supply Portal.
• COVID-19’s Impact on Health Product Supply- Assessment & Recommendations: This document is regularly updated by the Global Fund to contain their most recent assessment of COVID-19's impact on core health product supplies and recommendations for implementing partners on how to manage the impact.
• COVID-19 vaccination: supply and logistics guidance: WHO guidance for countries on how to develop their COVID-19 vaccine supply chain strategies and how to safely design, implement, and improve upon their vaccine distributions.

Santé numérique

• WHO's COVID-19 Mobile Learning App for Health Workers: This app provides health workers everywhere with an efficient way to access the WHO's COVID-19 knowledge resources all in one place, including up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, self-paced learning, and virtual workshops to support health workers in caring for patients infected by COVID-19 - as well on how they can protect themselves as they do their critical work. The app's content is available in six languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish and can be downloaded for free in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Urgences et contextes humanitaires

• Interim Guidance - Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings: This Interim Guidance from the IASC, outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The Guidance is intended for humanitarian and development actors of all operational levels working with communities, as well as local authorities involved in COVID-19 preparedness and response operations in these settings, in support of national and local governments and plans.
• COVID-19 & Humanitarian Crises: This open-access web-based platform promotes the exchange of field-based COVID-19 program adaptations and innovations, facilitating learning among organizations in different sectors and contexts. Run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies.
• COVID-19 and Fragile Settings: This policy brief was published December 2020 and developed by UHC2030 International Health Partnership's Fragile Settings Technical Working Group. The paper presents: 1. Global guidance on COVID-19 response strategies that should be adapted to context-specific and evolving needs in fragile settings, 2. An urgent call to protect funding for health in fragile settings, 3. Six emergent lessons to enhance COVID-19 response and recovery in fragile settings. 

Nutrition

• The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Health and Nutrition: This report is informed by Save the Children's global research series to generate rigorous evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and measures implemented to mitigate it are impacting children’s health, nutrition, learning, wellbeing, protection, family finances and poverty. Data was collected from 31,683 parents and caregivers and 13,477 children ages 11 to 17 from 46 countries, resulting in the largest and most comprehensive survey of children and families during the COVID-19 crisis to date. The report focuses on the findings and recommendations on access to food and nutrition as well as infant and young child feeding. 
• FAQ & Decision Tree: Breastfeeding & COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers: This FAQ complements the WHO interim guidance: Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when COVID-19 disease is suspected and provides responses to questions that have arisen about the recommendations.
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations When COVID-19 is Suspected or Confirmed: A new counselling package has been developed in collaboration between UNICEF and USAID Advancing Nutrition, with technical support from the Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group, represented by Save the Children and Safely Fed Canada. The package includes 10 Counselling Cards and a Recommended Practices Booklet, reflecting global guidelines. The package provides both easy-to-understand recommended practices for counselors and user-friendly graphics that can be used with low-literacy communities in different contexts.
• Operational guidance on Nutrition Sectoral/Cluster Coordination in the context of COVID-19: The purpose of this document is to guide Nutrition Sector/Cluster coordination mechanisms at the national level on the adaptation of the core cluster coordination functions and working modalities, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Engagement du secteur privé

• External Guidance on Private Sector Engagement for COVID-19 Response: This document outlines USAID's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the private sector role in the response, and how the private sector can engage with USAID to support the immediate health response and second-order impact engagement.
• A Case for Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Africa in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: This paper discusses the issue of scaling up the local pharmaceutical production in Africa as an opportunity, as well as a necessity, to tackle local epidemics of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, as well as non-communicable diseases whose control could be undermined by the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Engaging the Private Sector in the COVID-19 Response: Impact for Health has put together this resource hub for information regarding private sector engagement and COVID-19.

Enfants handicapés

• Children with disabilities: Ensuring their inclusion in COVID-19 response strategies and evidence generation: This report developed by UNICEF highlights the unique impact of COVID-19 on children with disabilities and provides guidance on how to assess the impact of the pandemic on these children. Actionable steps to protect them involve the deliberate inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in every stage of the COVID-19 response.
• The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Families with Disabilities: This report is informed by Save the Children's global research series to generate rigorous evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and measures implemented to mitigate it are impacting children’s health, nutrition, learning, wellbeing, protection, family finances and poverty. The results and recommendations shared in this resource focus on the various impacts of COVID-19 on children and parents/caregivers with disabilities and their families.

For a comprehensive suite of COVID-19 information,
check out the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.