Title: Maladies respiratoires aiguës à tendance épidémique ou pandémique Prévenir et combattre les infections dans les établissements de soins

Description: This booklet is a summary guidance drawn from the WHO guidelines entitled “Infection prevention and control of epidemic- and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases in health care. WHO Interim Guidelines”

Subjects: Patient care and safety

Title: Management of Suspect Cases of Human Infection with Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus

Description: Epidemiology and clinical features of human infection with influenza A (H5N1) virus; clinical assessment, epidemiologic assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of suspected influenza A (H5N1) patients

Abstract: The presentation is divided into two parts. The first part learning objectives are 1) describe the clinical features of human infection with H5N1 virus; 2) outline human H5N1 case cluster findings. The second part learning objectives are 1) describe how to assess case patients including clinical and epidemiological data collection; 2) outline methods for specimen collection and diagnostics; 3) describe treatment options.

Subjects: Patient care and safety

Training package: Rapid Response Training for Avian Influenza

Title: Manual for the Laboratory Diagnosis and Virological Surveillance of Influenza

Pages: 153; 

Description: The manual is composed of two parts. Part 1: The virology and epidemiology, control and surveillance of influenza Part 2: The laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza

Abstract: WHO developed the Manual for the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza in order to strengthen the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza infection by providing standard methods for the collection, detection, isolation and characterization of viruses.

Subjects: Laboratory

Title: Measures for Mitigating Animal Influenza Transmission Risks to Humans

Description: Lecture about how to control animals, food safety

Abstract: The learning objectives are to 1) understand the challenges of th animal-human interface; 2) describe the transmission mode between animals and humans; and 3) describe different ways to reduce the transmission.

Subjects: Animal-human interface

Training package: Influenza Training Package

Title: Methodologies for Examining the Nutrition Impact of HPAI

Pages: 18; 

Description: This report details the methodologies to be used to assess the nutritional impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Abstract: While issues related to food safety and avian influenza have been addressed in some industrialized countries, little has been done to understand how the epidemic together with the government and general population responses has affected the nutrition of those living in developing countries. The methodologies outlined in this report are proposed for investigating nutritional impact of an avian influenza.

Subjects: Animal-human interface; Public health measures and pandemic preparedness

Title: Minimum requirements for designing training programs and slide sets

Description: The document is composed of two checklists, accompanied by an introduction. The first checklist is a simple tool to ensure the minimum requirements for designing a training program and the second checklist is about the minimum requirement for designing slides set for presentations.

Subjects: Trainer's corner