Operational guidance on maintaining essential health services during the Covid-19 pandemic, recommending practical actions that countries can take at national, subregional and local levels to reorganize and safely maintain these services. It also outlines sample indicators for monitoring essential health services, and describes considerations on when to stop and restart services as COVID-19 transmission recedes and surges. Updated June 2020.
Guidelines for both preventive and clinical aspects of safe continuity of quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Family planning services during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya, including use of telemedicine, specific considerations for family planning and contraceptives in the Kenyan context, and algorithms for outpatient care, intrapartum and postpartum care, neonatal care and other conditions. Published April 2020.
Framework for healthcare systems providing non-Covid-19 clinical care during the covid-19 pandemic, including recommendations for optimizing telehealth services and infection control practices. Updated regularly.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Selected relevant guidelines include:
Strategies to Mitigate Healthcare Personnel Staffing Shortages
Ten Ways Healthcare Systems Can Operate Effectively during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sharing and Shifting Tasks to Maintain Essential Healthcare During COVID-19 in Low Resource, non-US settings. A tool kit and decision pathway to guide decisions about task sharing and task shifting, principally for non-Covid care during the pandemic. Updated October 2020.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Guidance for people with increased risk for severe illness, including elderly individuals, individuals with underlying conditions, and people living in high-risk settings. Includes guidance on supporting those needing extra precautions and understanding risk factors. Updated regularly.
People at Increased Risk And Other People Who Need to Take Extra Precautions
Guidance note on enabling delivery of essential health services during the pandemic, including facility mapping and planning, telehealth, home visits, HR deployment and capacity building, maternal and child health services, communicable disease management, and non-communicable disease management. Updated November 2020.