(HT to Helen Branswell's Tweet) Most of the recommendations in this document are things we've seen numerous times so I won't reprint those.
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Countries where health services are overburdened by diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, will have great difficulty managing the surge of cases seen when pandemic influenza spreads.
2. Reduce death by treating acute respiratory illness and pneumonia
* Train, supervise and ensure health care workers, including community health workers, can identify, triage, classify and treat acute respiratoryillness and pneumonia in line with national protocols.
* Governments with support by humanitarian partners and donor governments plan for an additional 30 percent buffer stock of medicalsupplies to treat pneumonia such as paracetamol, antibiotics, and oxygen, at the outpatient and inpatient levels.
* Inform and educate the community about home-care of symptoms of non-severe influenza-like illness including diarrhoea and dehydratation.Include advice about voluntary separation of the sick and when to seek health care.
* If antiviral therapy is available, ensure use for treatment of severe influenza.
* Ensure at least 8 to 12 weeks of buffer stocks of essential medicines to continue treating priority conditions (i.e. diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition,HIV and TB) in the community and in health facilities.
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/swineflu/20090817_call_to_action_en.pdf
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Countries where health services are overburdened by diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, will have great difficulty managing the surge of cases seen when pandemic influenza spreads.
2. Reduce death by treating acute respiratory illness and pneumonia
* Train, supervise and ensure health care workers, including community health workers, can identify, triage, classify and treat acute respiratoryillness and pneumonia in line with national protocols.
* Governments with support by humanitarian partners and donor governments plan for an additional 30 percent buffer stock of medicalsupplies to treat pneumonia such as paracetamol, antibiotics, and oxygen, at the outpatient and inpatient levels.
* Inform and educate the community about home-care of symptoms of non-severe influenza-like illness including diarrhoea and dehydratation.Include advice about voluntary separation of the sick and when to seek health care.
* If antiviral therapy is available, ensure use for treatment of severe influenza.
* Ensure at least 8 to 12 weeks of buffer stocks of essential medicines to continue treating priority conditions (i.e. diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition,HIV and TB) in the community and in health facilities.
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/swineflu/20090817_call_to_action_en.pdf