GBCHealth has long been a resource for insights and best practices in global health, and we developed this resource to collect the latest information and developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Check back here regularly for an updated collection of tools, resources and guidelines for businesses to help navigate COVID-19.
In focus:
“Given the number of people they interact with, community health workers are extremely vulnerable to being infected with COVID-19 and often have limited access to basic personal protective equipment like gloves and masks. In the same round of Global Fund spot-checks of health facilities last year, a shocking 55% of facilities in Africa didn’t have enough basic PPE available for their workers. If a community health worker falls ill, there’s often no back-up.” -Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
Global & Regional Guidance
WHO
- Daily situation reports
- WHA73 Resolution on the COVID-19 Response
- The Secretary-General’s UN Response and Recovery Fund
- Advice for the public
- Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19
- Technical guidance: country readiness
- Technical guidance: Maintaining Essential Health Services & Systems
- Critical preparedness, readiness and response actions for COVID-19
- Guidance for health workers
- “Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19
- Q&A on COVID-19, HIV and antiretrovirals
- Ensuring continuity of TB services during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Jointly addressing endemic malaria and pandemic COVID-19
- WHO urges countries to move quickly to save lives from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
- Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines
- Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19
The Global Fund
- Global Fund Response to COVID-19
- Latest Situation Reports
- Global Fund Board signals strong commitment to sustain the fight against HIV, TB, malaria while supporting the global response to COVID-19
- Germany signs EUR150 million contribution to the Global Fund’s COVID-19 response
- Global partnership to make available 120 million affordable, quality COVID-19 rapid tests for low- and middle-income countries
- Global Fund Partnership Has Saved 38 Million Lives – but COVID-19 Could Wipe Out Progress
- The COVID-19 Response Mechanism
- Grant Flexibilities
- Health Product Supply
- Global Fund Board Members Unite to Fight
- Technical Guidance:
United Nations
- UN COVID-19 Response
- Info for UN Member States
- UN harnesses the power of culture to inspire hope and solidarity
- By António Guterres: “We have a unique opportunity to design and implement more inclusive and accessible societies”
- COVID-19 Communications Resources:
- For Patients:
- For Healthcare Workers:
- Get Your Clinic Ready
- Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) When Caring for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19
Africa CDC
- Latest updates on the COVID-19 crisis from Africa CDC
- Africa CDC COVID-19 Dashboard
- What health workers should know
- Statement on medications to treat Novel Coronavirus disease
- How to wear a face mask correctly
- Community use of face masks
- New report provides African governments real-time information and guidance to find the balance in COVID-19 response
- Press releases & media
Business Resources & Tools
- COVID-19 Trackers:
- Toolkits on vulnerable workers in global value chains, responding to gender-based violence, supporting small and medium enterprises, raising awareness of hand-washing and other measures, and more
- An unprecedented private sector call to action to tackle COVID-19
- Corporate Call to Action on how global supply chain leaders can protect their supply chains, operations and workforce from COVID-19: Supply Chain Leadership during COVID-19
- COVID-19 Business Continuity Guide which is based around four key principles: Plan, Adapt, Monitor and Assess
- Coronavirus Communication Toolkit with graphics and messages relating to preventing the spread of COVID-19
- From surviving to thriving: Reimagining the post-COVID-19 return
- How to rebound stronger from COVID-19: Resilience in manufacturing and supply systems
- Our New COVID-19 Vocabulary—What Does It All Mean? – Yale Medicine experts provide a glossary of key terms you need to know
Examples & Case Studies of Corporate Action
- A database of examples of corporate actions that can be searched and filtered
- A regularly-updated catalog of examples of how companies are responding to the crisis
- COVID Action Platform focusing on galvanizing collective action from the business community, facilitating business continuity, and mobilizing business support for the global response
- COVID-19 Corporate Aid Tracker from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
- CEO’s Taking Action video series featuring examples of what companies are doing in response to COVID-19 – CEOs can add to the series here
COVID-19 and Other Health Issues
COVID-19 and the Three Diseases
- Reimagining Commitment to Fighting HIV, TB and Malaria During COVID-19: Focus on the Private Sector
- Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 On Countries Affected By HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- The Fight Continues: Health workers, leaders and advocates speak about their fight against AIDS, TB and malaria in a time of COVID-19
- Achieving Quality in Programs to Remove Human Rights and Gender-Related Barriers to HIV, TB and Malaria Services
- COVID-19 Threatens to Derail Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria
- COVID-19 and Health Product Supply for AIDS, TB and Malaria
- Global Fund Technical Guidance
- HIV and TB increase death risk from COVID-19, study finds—but not by much
Malaria
- Jointly addressing endemic malaria and pandemic COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Malaria info from RBM Partnership
- COVID-19 and Malaria info from WHO
- Guidelines on distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in COVID-19 affected countries
- Impacts of COVID-19 on the delivery of essential malaria services in Africa
- African leaders call for immediate action to save additional lives from malaria in the face of COVID-19
- WHO urges countries to move quickly to save lives from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
- More statements and reports on COVID-19 and malaria
HIV
- WHO: access to HIV medicines severely impacted by COVID-19 as AIDS response stalls
- What People Living with HIV Need to Know About HIV And Covid-19
- UNAIDS blog: responding to the pandemic
- The cost of inaction: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV
- UNAIDS urges countries to stay focused on HIV prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic
- US CDC resources: COVID-19 and HIV
- COVID-19 and HIV info from IAPAC
- COVID-19 and HIV info from Greater Than AIDS
TB
- TB and COVID-19 info from Stop TB
- TB and COVID-19 info from WHO
- Stop TB Partnerships Across the World Continue to Work Hard to Maintain TB Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns
- Tuberculosis and COVID-19: What health workers and authorities need to know
- Experts warn COVID-19 lockdowns could have dire impact on TB
NCDs
- COVID-19 & NCDs info from WHO
- COVID-19 & NCDs info from the NCD Alliance
- COVID-19 & NCDs info from the Health Financing Institute
- Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in the COVID-19 response
- COVID-19 significantly impacts health services for noncommunicable diseases
- Rapid assessment of service delivery for NCDs during the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 disrupting services to treat non-communicable diseases, WHO survey finds
Routine Immunization
- Measles vaccination disruptions due to coronavirus put 80 million children at risk
- Immunization in the context of COVID-19 pandemic
- At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
- Slowing the Coronavirus Is Speeding the Spread of Other Diseases
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Pediatric Vaccine Ordering and Administration — United States, 2020
- COVID-19 info from GAVI
- Gavi Board calls for global access to COVID-19 vaccines
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health info from WHO
- COVID-19 and violence against women: What the health sector/system can do
- Gender and COVID-19 WHO Advocacy Brief
- COVID-19 info from UNFPA
- COVID-19: A Gender Lens – Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights, and promoting gender equality
- COVID-19 and Women’s Health Care: A Message for Patients from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- Centering sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response
- Contraception and COVID-19: Disrupted supply and access
- The Pandemic’s Toll on Women: COVID-19 Is Gender-Blind, But Not Gender-Neutral
- UNICEF: An additional 6.7 million children under 5 could suffer from wasting this year due to COVID-19
Food Systems
- Covid-19 is breaking our food systems and supply chains. We must act now
- World Food Programme 2020 Global Report on Food Crises
Mental Health
Workforce & Workplace Considerations
Staying Healthy & Preventing the Spread
- Masks
- Hand washing
- Recommendations to Member States to improve hand hygiene practices to help prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus | WHO
- Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19 | US CDC
- Hand Hygiene Recommendations | US CDC
- When and How to Wash Your Hands | US CDC
- Everything you need to know about washing your hands to protect against coronavirus (COVID-19) | UNICEF
- Handwashing Is Crucial for Combating Coronavirus | Think Global Health
- Social distancing
- General
- Vaccine development
- Airborne spread