{"id":3633,"date":"2020-09-12T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T04:58:48","slug":"who-covid-19-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2020\/09\/12\/who-covid-19-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO COVID-19 guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Justice Health Unit contributes to WHO COVID-19 guidance for young people deprived of liberty<\/h2>\n<p>As part of its on-going collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Health in Prisons Programme, the <a href=\"\/cah\/research\/Justice_Health\/\">Justice Health Group<\/a> at CAH, MCRI and the University of Melbourne, led a multi-institutional consortium of experts that contributed to development of a Factsheet on responding to COVID-19 response in the WHO European Region, in the context of children and adolescents deprived of liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mspgh.unimelb.edu.au\/centres-institutes\/centre-for-health-equity\/research-group\/justice-health-unit\/about-us\/our-team\/our-staff\/stuart-kinner\">Professor Kinner<\/a>, the consortium included research and clinical leaders from The University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute, Burnet Institute, and Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>The Factsheet is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/media-centre\/sections\/fact-sheets\/2020\/factsheet-vulnerable-populations-during-covid-19-response-children-and-adolescents-deprived-of-liberty-june-2020\">download<\/a> in English and P\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div id=\"content_container_458242\">\n<h3>Key principles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Any response should be consistent with best evidence and ensure that children are involved.<\/li>\n<li>Basic human rights of children must not be breached; isolation in response to COVID-19 should not be used as solitary confinement or punishment.<\/li>\n<li>Detention should be recognized as harmful to children\u2019s health and development, and that there is an ongoing need to invest in alternative measures to formal judicial proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/media-centre\/sections\/fact-sheets\/2020\/factsheet-vulnerable-populations-during-covid-19-response-children-and-adolescents-deprived-of-liberty-june-2020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3634 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-12-173341-400x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-12-173341-400x266.png 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-12-173341-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-12-173341-600x399.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-12-173341.png 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Health Unit contributes to WHO COVID-19 guidance for young people deprived of liberty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}