Overview

These guidelines aim to provide strategies for prevention and treatment, at the community and household levels, of the most likely contributors to mortality from common illnesses during an influenza pandemic. They comprise recommendations to support a minimum level of continuity for priority public health programmes during a pandemic.

They are designed primarily for community-level programming in resource-poor settings (urban, semi-urban and rural) but are applicable to a wide range of situations.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. In the home
  • 1.1 Prevention of illness in the home
  • 1.2 Treatment of illness in the home
• 2. In the community
  • 2.1 Community mitigation
  • 2.2 Treatment of acute illness in the community during a pandemic
  • 2.3 Pneumonia
  • 2.4 Fever and malaria
  • 2.5 Diarrhoeal diseases
• 3. Recommendations for priority health programmes
  • 3.1 HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and chronic disease programmes
  • 3.2 Acute malnutrition programmes
  • 3.3 Reproductive health programmes
• Annex
• References
• Bibliography

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