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WHO COVID-19 Health Services Learning Hub
Action Brief: Template

The action brief is a summary of key actionable learning priorities. Therefore, please ensure your entry is within the 500-word limit. Please click here to access the WHO Operational Guidance on Maintaining Essential Health Services referenced below.

Please note that by submitting your Action Brief you agree that WHO is under no obligation to use, distribute, endorse or publish the content provided.  WHO retains the right to edit the Action Brief for the purposes of publication. In submitting your Action Brief, you are giving permission for the WHO to publish it including images and videos for the purposes of the Health Services Learning Hub web portal and other publication materials.
1.Please provide your personal information:(Required.)
2.Please select all areas of the WHO Operational Guidance on Maintaining Essential Health Services that are relevant to this Action Brief.

Operational strategies
3.Please select all areas of the WHO Operational Guidance on Maintaining Essential Health Services that are relevant to this Action Brief

Life course and disease considerations
4.Background
Please limit to 100 words. Include information on relevant population and epidemiological data.
5.Impact of COVID-19 on essential health services
Please provide information on 3 priority areas that have been subject to disruption.
6.What was the intervention or activity?
Please include scope of intervention, purpose, and stakeholders involved.
7.What was the outcome of this intervention?
Please provide the specific on how this contributed to maintenance of EHS, including data where possible.
8.What were the key challenges involved?
Please provide 2-3 big challenges faced.
9.How were these challenges overcome?
Please provide one bullet on how each of the challenges were overcome.
10.What important lessons do you wish you had known before starting?
Please include up to 5 key learning points that could be of relevance to other countries.
11.What are the unmet learning needs?
Please include up to 3 unmet learning needs that would help take the technical work forward in your setting.
12.If you have included media, please include a short description of each photograph or video.