Response Tag: Adaptive Action

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has created a number of new regulations to accelerate the production and supply of COVID-19 test kits, through an expedited assessment procedure. In some cases, for example point of care tests, due to limited information at the time of application, regulatory approval is granted, with strict conditions that follow-up data and studies including stability shelf-life is provided to the TGA. In addition, a number of exemptions for complying with…

Match for Healthcare is a simple and efficient digital interface between medical facilities and professionals. It is an interface that allows supporters and those in need to quickly and easily connect with each other. "match4healthcare" is the ideal tool for quick and efficient networking of supporters and facilities and especially now the state-of-the-art solution. Publicly, the platform offers a form for people to offer their help depending on their medical training, for organisations to…

We have visualised guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19. The visual guideline is based on the journey of a volunteer delivering food to a vulnerable neighbour, inspired by COVID-19 Mutual Aid UK groups. We hope that the over 200 community support groups spring up in the UK and other groups internationally can benefit from it.

The Government of Kazakhstan used SMS to communicate with those who qualified for social assistance to indicate that this would be automatically transferred into their bank accounts, or to request bank account information to complete the transfer.

The ILO's Social Protection Monitor presents the latest policy trends based on media announcements on social protection measures. This special report covers social protection responses throughout the world to the COVID-19 crisis between February and April 2020. ILO’s Social Protection Monitor is based on media/news published online. The Monitor tracks announcements of social protection measures, defined as any policy decision that affects the functioning of a social protection system, from…

New Zealand has declared that the Easter Bunny is an essential worker ahead of Easter. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used a daily press conference to assure kids that they would still be getting easter eggs for Easter.

A helpline, number 3060, which allows victims of domestic violence to send quick text messages (SMS) if they want to ask for help. This mechanism is free, available 24 hours a day and guarantees confidentiality. It aims to ensure safety and support for victims of domestic violence, given the increased risk that the current context of isolation means.

A playful-educational website created by the publisher “Ideias com História” in partnership with the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), which aims to inform children and young people about this disease that is spreading around the world, caused by the new coronavirus. On the site is news every day, useful information about Covid-19, curiosities, games, videos and activities for children to develop in this period when they are at home, in a fun way.

An e-learning programme in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic that is free to access, without logging in*, for the entire UK health and care workforce, including those working in the NHS, the independent sector and social care. The programme includes key materials to help the health and care workforce respond to Coronavirus. The Coronavirus programme currently includes limited resources, but will add more content in the coming days and weeks. The additional content will…

A dedicated support service for people with a medical condition which makes them extremely vulnerable to coronavirus (COVID-19). Extermely vulnerable includes people who have had a solid organ transplant; have any cancer and are getting chemotherapy; have lung cancer and are getting radical radiotherapy; have cancer of the blood or bone marrow, at any stage of treatment - for example, leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma; have any cancer for which you’re getting immunotherapy or other continuing…