|Technical notes: Special Considerations for Programming in Unstable Situations (UNICEF, 2000, 490 p.)|
|Chapter 1 - Annex 7: Management, Control and Prevention of the Most Common Communicable Diseases|
The expertise and resources of WHO should normally be swiftly mobilized by the government.
· Vaccines, vaccination supplies, essential drugs.
For yellow fever, polio, Japanese encephalitis:
· Vaccines, vaccination supplies.
· Impregnated bed nets.
· Support to appropriate vector control measures.
· Vitamin A supplements.
· Vaccines; ORS and cotrimoxazole.
Plus, in most epidemics:
· Support for special training for health workers.
· Support for in-country transport and distribution of priority supplies and personnel (transport may be temporarily diverted from other programme purposes).
· Social mobilization and specifically focused health education programmes among the most vulnerable communities.
· Where specific epidemics are common, provision to respond to the predictable needs for assistance should be included in the regular UNICEF health programme budget and recourse be made to emergency assistance processes only if the epidemic takes on unusually major proportions or generates extraordinary needs.
· BCG vaccine in the context of EPI.