Community engagement matters for COVID-19 prevention and control: cross-country learning from the webinar dialogue

4 August, 2020

I would like to recommend this new blog by Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Adalbert Tchetchia, Jiawen Elyssa Liu, from the Community Health CoP:

'As the COVID-19 pandemic is proliferating around the world with different epidemiological trajectories, it has been increasingly felt that combatting it will require a multi-sectoral approach. Community engagement constitutes one of the fundamental components in such a response. The recently-launched guidance document on community-based health care developed by UNICEF, WHO and IFRC emphasises how community-based platforms, with its distinct capacities for health care delivery and social engagement, has a critical role to play in the response to COVID-19 and is essential to meeting people’s ongoing health needs, especially amongst the most vulnerable...'

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ChcZfFaEE7QifAfilp7gJ4QXUPw3Nh1/view

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Best wishes, Neil

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