Adapting Longstanding Public Health Collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–2021

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Herman-Roloff, Amy ; Aman, Rashid ; Samandari, Taraz ; Kasera, Kadondi ; Emukule, Gideon O. ; Amoth, Patrick ; Chen, Tai-Ho ; Kisivuli, Jackton ; Weyenga, Herman ; Hunsperger, Elizabeth ; Onyango, Clayton ; Juma, Bonventure ; Munyua, Peninah ; Wako, Daniel ; Akelo, Victor ; Kimanga, Davies ; Ndegwa, Linus ; Mohamed, Ahmed Abade ; Okello, Peter ; Kariuki, Samuel ; De Cock, Kevin M. ; Bulterys, Marc
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC-Kenya COVID-19 Response Team
• Description:
  Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya (CDC Kenya) have maintained a 40-year partnership during which measures were implemented to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the MOH and CDC Kenya rapidly responded to mitigate disease impact on Kenya's 52 million residents. We describe activities undertaken jointly by the MOH and CDC Kenya that lessened the effects of COVID-19 during 5 epidemic waves from March through December 2021. Activities included establishing national and county-level emergency operations centers and implementing workforce development and deployment, infection prevention and control training, laboratory diagnostic advancement, enhanced surveillance, and information management. The COVID-19 pandemic provided fresh impetus for the government of Kenya to establish a national public health institute, launched in January 2022, to consolidate its public health activities and counter COVID-19 and future infectious, vaccine-preventable, and emerging zoonotic diseases.
• Subjects:
  Animals COVID-19/epidemiology COVID-19/prevention & Control Humans Pandemics/prevention & Control Public Health Zoonoses/prevention & Control
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(Suppl 1):S159-S167
• Pubmed ID:
  36502403
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9745212
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  CDC Kenya ; CDC Kenya
• Place as Subject:
  Kenya
• Volume:
  28
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:531d5d8d4aa4d7cff30f4019554ff3ec43abcfffc865967d4cdb10bcea46833b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123277/cdc_123277_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.43 MB ]