Adopting World Health Organization Multimodal Infection Prevention and Control Strategies to Respond to COVID-19, Kenya

Kimani, Daniel; Ndegwa, Linus; Njeru, Mercy; Wesangula, Eveline; Mboya, Frankline; Macharia, Catherine; Oliech, Julius; Weyenga, Herman; Owiso, George; Irungu, Kamau; Luvsansharav, Ulzii-Orshikh; Herman-Roloff, Amy

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Adopting World Health Organization Multimodal Infection Prevention and Control Strategies to Respond to COVID-19, Kenya

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12 2022
By Kimani, Daniel ; Ndegwa, Linus ; Njeru, Mercy ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Kimani, Daniel ; Ndegwa, Linus ; Njeru, Mercy ; Wesangula, Eveline ; Mboya, Frankline ; Macharia, Catherine ; Oliech, Julius ; Weyenga, Herman ; Owiso, George ; Irungu, Kamau ; Luvsansharav, Ulzii-Orshikh ; Herman-Roloff, Amy
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The World Health Organization advocates a multimodal approach to improving infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, which Kenya adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kenya Ministry of Health formed a national IPC committee for policy and technical leadership, coordination, communication, and training. During March-November 2020, a total of 69,892 of 121,500 (57.5%) healthcare workers were trained on IPC. Facility readiness assessments were conducted in 777 health facilities using a standard tool assessing 16 domains. A mean score was calculated for each domain across all facilities. Only 3 domains met the minimum threshold of 80%. The Ministry of Health maintained a national list of all laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections. By December 2020, a total of 3,039 healthcare workers were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2-positive, an infection rate (56/100,000 workers) 12 times higher than in the general population. Facility assessments and healthcare workers' infection data provided information to guide IPC improvements.
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COVID-19/prevention & Control Health Personnel Humans Infection Control Pandemics/prevention & Control SARS-COV-2
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Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(Suppl 1):S247-S254
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36502468
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PMC9745248
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Journal Article
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World Health Organization. ; World Health Organization.
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Kenya
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28
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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