Countries with clinical guidelines for healthcare workers on diagnosis and clinical management of cases and severe cases of Aedes-borne arboviral diseases (ref Q21)

The following countries indicated availability of clinical guidelines: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste. did not answer the question and indicated no guidelines.

Training for healthcare workers on clinical diagnosis and management of Aedes-borne arboviral diseases (ref Q24)

Country	Training
Bangladesh	Dengue management training was conducted for newly appointed doctors working in different government medical college hospitals, sadar/district hospitals and upazila health complexes in selected areas.
Bhutan	Refresher course on dengue case management especially in high-risk areas; not regular.
India	Case management training for medical officer/clinicians.
Maldives	Training and refresher training annually. Special additional sessions for specific areas reporting higher transmission/ higher referral of severe cases.
Myanmar	Yes, for dengue. BHS training for dengue prevention and control clinical management training to hospital and health center staff. Training and refresher training annually. Special additional sessions for specific areas reporting higher transmission/ higher referral of severe cases.
Nepal	Training on clinical diagnosis and management of dengue is a part of the MBBS, MD training course. Also, some training sessions are organized by DoHS on dengue management.
Sri Lanka	Clinical training is provided for medical officers and nursing officers in government sector and private hospitals routinely at National Institute for Infectious diseases as ToT. Additionally Medical and Emergency Medicine Registrars are trained annually. Institutional level annual training are conducted for Medical Officers and Nursing Officers on the clinical management of Dengue.
Thailand	Training on clinical management for new coming physician staff.
Timor-Leste	Not specified