This document aims to guide the revision of existing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Food Distribution in the COVID-19 context at the country level to minimize the risk of exposure of personnel, partners and beneficiaries.

This interim guidance is for Long-term care facility (LTCF) managers and corresponding infection prevention and control (IPC) focal persons in LTCF. The objective of this document is to provide guidance on IPC in LTCFs in the context of COVID-19 to 1) prevent COVID-19-virus from entering the facility, 2) prevent COVID-19 from spreading within the facility, and 3) prevent COVID-19 from spreading to outside the facility.

UNAIDS has consulted with the HIV and Human Rights Reference Group, experts from civil society, academia and public health and other United Nations agencies to identify key learnings from the HIV response that are critical in ensuring an evidence-informed and effective response to an epidemic.

"Hundreds of millions of children around the world will likely face increasing threats to their safety and wellbeing – including mistreatment, gender-based violence, exploitation, social exclusion and separation from caregivers – because of actions taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic," said UNICEF in this 20 March press release.

This framework represents Save the Children’s planning assumptions and priority areas for implementation over four phases of programming: Preparedness, Initial Response, Large-Scare Response, and Recovery.

This brief from UNICEF outlines what we need to know about COVID-19 and people with disabilities and what needs to be done in order to address their needs.

This appeal seeks to respond to additional needs which have emerged, or may do so in the short and medium term, in national contexts currently affected by humanitarian situations, as well as those that present more stable environments yet are equally vulnerable to the global pandemic, due to ill-prepared health systems and assistance mechanisms to respond at scale.

This webinar reviewed the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on women and girls and how to mitigate the risks of gender-based violence (GBV).

A la luz de la pandemia de COVID19 y su impacto desproporcionado en las personas con discapacidad, la Alianza Internacional de Discapacidad (IDA) ha compilado la siguiente lista de las principales barreras que enfrentan las personas con discapacidad en esta situación de emergencia junto con algunas soluciones prácticas y recomendaciones.

In the light of the COVID19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on persons with disabilities, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) has compiled the following list of the main barriers that persons with disabilities face in this emergency situation along with some practical solutions and recommendations.