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These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and policy support to mitigate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of women, children and adolescents, and the societies and economies that support them. The knowledge-to-action briefs synthesize relevant evidence to the COVID-19 Call to Action, focusing on:

1. key impacts of COVID-19
2. policies and mitigation strategies
3. strategic gaps in knowledge and action, including in humanitarian and fragile settings. 

This repository is compiled by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and provides an overview of what peer-reviewed journal articles currently state on COVID-19, breastfeeding, infant feeding, and breast milk. Updated with a snapshot of what is published every two weeks. 

The Roadmap to Accelerate Progress for Every Newborn in Humanitarian Settings seeks to address newborn heath across these diverse contexts, with recommendations that can be applied generally, but can also be relevant to some specific contexts more than others.

This roadmap was developed with input from more than 80 individuals, led by a Steering Committee with a strong stake in improving maternal and newborn health in humanitarian contexts including non-governmental, UN, academic, and donor agencies. A multi-sectoral experts meeting was held in February 2019 to validate the critical needs, challenges, and opportunities highlighted in this roadmap for newborn health in humanitarian settings.

The result of a collaborative and consultative process engaging hundreds of representatives from United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations that make up the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG). Based on guidelines issued by normative bodies, particularly those of the World Health Organization, the 2018 IAFM incorporates specific evidence from, or examples about, the application and adaptation of global SRH or human rights standards in humanitarian settings. The 2018 IAFM reflects the wide application of the manual’s principles and technical content beyond refugee situations, extending its use into diverse crises, including conflict zones and natural disasters. 

This Field Guide is a companion to the Inter-agency Field Manual on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings (2018), providing information related specifically to newborn care during the neonatal period (days 0-28). The interim Field Guide was originally published in 2015. After field-testing in two humanitarian crises (South Sudan and Somalia) and soliciting extensive feedback from practitioners, it was revised in 2017 and published in January 2018. The Field Guide has been designed as an enhancement to national
strategies and programs aimed at improving the lives of newborns and their mothers, and to strategies such as the Every Newborn Action ABOUTNewborn Health in Humanitarian Settings: Field Guide 9 Plan (ENAP).1 We encourage its use in advocacy and strengthening efforts of existing country programs for newborn care, regardless of whether such programs were developed in response to humanitarian crises or as permanent systems during times of stability. The Field Guide can also be used for the development of the neonatal component of national emergency preparedness and response plans. Our ultimate aim is to improve the survival and wellbeing of newborns in humanitarian settings.

About the Series

The Self-Care Learning and Discovery Series, held June 24-August 27, 2021 was a highly interactive, virtual forum where participants exchanged and incubated ideas, experiences, and solutions on a variety of self-care topics. Hosted by White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) on behalf of the Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG), the Self-Care Learning and Discovery Series presented new knowledge, elevated self-care solutions, forged connections across issues and geographies, and much more! The series was open to all interested self-care stakeholders, including advocates, health providers, government representatives, implementers, journalists, community leaders, academia, product developers, feminists, youth champions, and more. There was no fee to participate.  

Sessions

The Self-Care Learning and Discovery Series included 16 virtual sessions, organized by diverse partners from around the world, that explored a different self-care topic. Each session featured examples and discussions of self-care evidence, advocacy, and practice through interactive panels, participatory dialogues, and more. All sessions are available in English, French, and Spanish and include English closed captioning. 

Please continue to visit the Self-Care Learning and Discovery Series platform to access self-care session recordings and resources that can be easily downloaded and shared at no cost. 

Inadequate health-care provider performance is a major challenge to the delivery of high-quality health care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Health Care Provider Performance Review (HCPPR) is a comprehensive systematic review of strategies to improve health-care provider performance in LMICs.

To support countries in adapting their response to different COVID-19 scenarios, the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing commissioned this scoping review of published and grey literature. The objective was to identify interventions implemented to maintain the provision and use of essential services for MNCAAH during disruptive events and to summarize lessons learned during these interventions. The review included outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Zika virus disease (ZVD), the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies that caused disruption to services, transport and other activities.