Sustaining Adolescent Health Services During Prolonged Schools Closures: Considerations in Light of Covid-19

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About this resource

This learning resource provides an overview of approaches for sustaining the delivery of school health and nutrition services targeted to adolescents during periods of prolonged closures. Drawing upon lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic as well as from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, this module will cover pivoting the delivery mechanisms for school health and nutrition in periods of school closure; how actors across sectors can play a role in safely reopening schools and how to best resume service delivery once schools reopen.

After completing this microlearning resource, you will be able to:

Recognize the causes and effects of prolonged school closures.
Reflect on how school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic affected access to school-based health and nutrition services.
Identify approaches that countries have used to sustain service delivery during periods of prolonged school closures, and
Identify risk mitigation mechanisms that the health, education, and social protection sectors can take to sustain essential services when schools are closed.