Adolescent health and health prevention and promotion during COVID-19

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Mythbusters
  Produced by: WHO
  This resource provides key messages on relevant facts in the form of advice to the public regarding the health prevention of COVID-19
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): What parents should know
  Produced by UNICEF
  This resource provides an overview on the COVID-19 and explains how to protect oneself against the virus
• COVID-19 and masks: Tips for families
  Produced by UNICEF
  This resource provides information on which mask to wear and when to wear it during the pandemic
• Mental health and substance use: considerations during #COVID19
  Produced by: WHO EMRO
  This resource urges the public to not use psychoactive drugs and promotes recommendations for healthcare workers and policy makers to limit the use of these drugs, especially during the pandemic.

• Key messages and actions for COVID-19 prevention and control in schools
  Produced by: WHO; UNICEF; IFRCM
  This guideline provides recommendations for families and school administration on the safe return to school during the pandemic
• COVID-19: Working with and for young people
  Produced by: WHO; UNFPA
  This guidance focuses on engaging youth as part of the response for COVID-19 and addresses recommendations to ensure that adolescents receive services such as education, health and protection, during the pandemic.
• Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance provides information on why it is important to wear masks and the recommendations for wearing masks based on available evidence (type of mask, risk groups…)
• COVID-19 emergency preparedness and response WASH and infection prevention and control measures in schools
  Produced by UNICEF
  This guidance note is intended to help WASH staff in their preparedness and response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an overview of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and how to prevent infection and its spread in schools.
• Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste management for COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO; UNICEF
  This interim guidance supplements the infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO guidance on water, sanitation and health-care waste relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses.
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: When and how to use masks
  Produced by: WHO
  This document provides advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in health care settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19. This updated version includes a section on Advice to decision makers on the use of masks for healthy people in community settings.
• Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
  Produced by: WHO
  This toolkit discusses logistic strategies for maintaining essential health services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (pages 26-27)
• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response UNFPA Interim Technical Brief
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This guidance document provides recommendations on how to safely engage and build the capacity of the youth in responding to the global response
• Special issue on COVID-19 and Youth
  Produced by: UN (DESA)
  This guidance document focuses on the impact of the economic and social aspects of the pandemic on the youth and addresses the ways forward to protect the wellbeing of the youth
• Stay physically active during self-quarantine
  Produced by: WHO EUROPE
  This guidance promotes good physical health during COVID-19 pandemic, when in lockdown
• Alcohol and COVID-19: what you need to know
  Produced by: WHO EUROPE
  This guidance addresses key messages on how to prevent the spread of the virus and its relation to alcohol
• Violence, injuries and disability Considerations for people with disability during COVID-19 in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region
  Produced by: WHO EMRO
  This guidance presents recommendations on how to provide people with disabilities a continuous supply of information and access to health services, during the pandemic
• Maintaining a healthy diet during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by FAO
  This guidance provides recommendations on how to maintain a healthy diet during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some recommendations include eating a variety of food, eating fruits and vegetables, consuming a diet rich in healthy fats and whole grains and monitoring the intake of fats, sugar and sodium.

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Health and safety in the workplace
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&A provides information on how the public should protect themselves at work settings
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Adolescents and youth
  Produced by: WHO; UNESCO; UNICEF; UNFPA
  These questions and answers were developed by the World Health Organization, UNESCO, UNFPA and UNICEF. The young people from the Adolescents and Youth Constituency of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health contributed to the development of these questions and answers.
• Questions and answers: Adolescents, youth and COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO; UNICEF, UNFPA; UNESCO
  This guide provides answers to common questions asked by the youth during the pandemic: medications, immunizations, risk, school re-openings, misinformation, safe sex, domestic abuse and harassment
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Contraception and family planning
  Produced by: WHO
  This resource provides information and health promotion on family planning and contraception during COVID-19
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&A provides an overview on how to take practice self-care safely during the pandemic
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Staying active
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&A provides information on how to safely engage in physical activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Home care for families and caregivers
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&A provides health promotion and prevention information on how to safely take care of an ill person at home
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Adolescents and youth
  Produced by: WHO
  This part of the Q&A addresses the importance of postponing vaccination during COVID-19 as adolescents will still be able to have flexible scheduling dates. Part: I was due to get vaccinated for HPV, meningitis or tetanus, but immunization services have been disrupted. Should I be concerned?
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Tobacco
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&A provides information on the risk associated with tobacco for COVID-19
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Adolescents and youth
  Produced by: WHO
  These Q&A addresses issues raised by adolescent in the times of COVID-19. They tackle areas of adolescent's mental health, sexual reproductive health, and violence. Also, they provide information about COVID-19 transmission and progress among youth.

• What to do if you’re anxious about coronavirus
  Produced by: Young Minds
  This resource promotes good mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: what to do when adolescents feel anxious
• Nutrition During the Pandemic
  Produced by: Teen Speak
  This blog provides tips on staying healthy through healthy eating during the pandemic.
• Diet meal plans for teenagers: 5 foods to eat healthily during the pandemic
  Produced by: Times Now News
  This piece presents dietary options that enhance the immunity system of adolescents during the pandemic, which include the consumption of fruits, vegetables, calcium, protein-rich food, iron-rich and vitamin-rich food.

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