학술논문
The African cholera surveillance network (Africhol) consortium meeting, 10-11 June 2015, Lomé, Togo.
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Academic Journal
Author
Munier A; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Njanpop-Lafourcade BM; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Sauvageot D; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Mhlanga RB; Agence de Médecine Préventive, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Heyerdahl L; Agence de Médecine Préventive, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Nadri J; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Wood R; Agence de Médecine Préventive, Ferney-Voltaire, France.; Ouedraogo I; Agence de Médecine Préventive, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.; Blake A; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Current affiliation: Epicentre, Paris, France.; Akilimali Mukelenge L; Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.; Anné JB; Institut Pasteur de Cote d'Ivoire, Centre National de Référence choléra et shigelloses, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.; Banla Kere A; Institut National d'Hygiène, Lomé, Togo.; Dempouo L; Ministère de la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroon.; Keita S; Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Guinea.; Langa JPM; National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique.; Makumbi I; Ministry of Health, National Disease Control, Kampala, Uganda.; Mwakapeje ER; Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.; Njeru IJ; Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya.; Ojo OE; Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria.; Phiri I; Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe.; Pezzoli L; World Health Organization, Secretariat of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC), Geneva, Switzerland.; Gessner BD; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.; Mengel M; Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.
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Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101316936 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1753-6561 (Print) Linking ISSN: 17536561 NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMC Proc Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
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Language
English
ISSN
1753-6561
Abstract
The fifth annual meeting of the African cholera surveillance network (Africhol) took place on 10-11 June 2015 in Lomé, Togo. Together with international partners, representatives from the 11 member countries -Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe- and an invited country (Malawi) shared their experience. The meeting featured three sessions: i) cholera surveillance, prevention and control in participating countries, ii) cholera surveillance methodology, such as cholera mapping, cost-effectiveness studies and the issue of overlapping epidemics from different diseases, iii) cholera laboratory diagnostics tools and capacity building. The meeting has greatly benefitted from the input of technical expertise from participating institutions and the observations emerging from the meeting should enable national teams to make recommendations to their respective governments on the most appropriate and effective measures to be taken for the prevention and control of cholera. Recommendations for future activities included collecting precise burden estimates in surveillance sites; modeling cholera burden for Africa; setting up cross-border collaborations; strengthening laboratory capacity for the confirmation of suspected cholera cases and for vaccine impact assessment in settings where oral cholera vaccine would be used; adapting cholera surveillance to concurrent issues (e.g., Ebola); and developing national cholera control plans including rationale vaccination strategies together with other preventive and control measures such as improvements in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).