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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Merrill, Rebecca D. ; Kilamile, Fadhili ; White, Mwabi ; Eurien, Daniel ; Mehta, Kanan ; ... More +
Merrill, Rebecca D. ; Kilamile, Fadhili ; White, Mwabi ; Eurien, Daniel ; Mehta, Kanan ; Ojwang, Joseph ; Laurent-Comlan, Marianne ; Babigumira, Peter Ahabwe ; Nakiire, Lydia ; Boos, Alexandra ; Gatei, Wangeci ; Harris, Julie R. ; Magazani, Alain ; Ocom, Felix ; Ssekubugu, Robert ; Kigozi, Godfrey ; Senyana, Florent ; Iyese, Francis B. ; Elyanu, Peter James ; Ward, Sarah ; Makumbi, Issa ; Muruta, Allan ; McIntyre, Elvira ; Massa, Khalid ; Ario, Alex R. ; Mayinja, Harriet ; Remidius, Kakulu ; Ndungi, Dede N. Less -
Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic spread between neighboring countries through land, water, and air travel. Since May 2020, ministries of health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda have sought to clarify population movement patterns to improve their disease surveillance and pandemic response efforts. Ministry of Health-led teams completed focus group discussions with participatory mapping using country-adapted Population Connectivity Across Borders toolkits. They analyzed the qualitative and spatial data to prioritize locations for enhanced COVID-19 surveillance, community outreach, and cross-border collaboration. Each country employed varying toolkit strategies, but all countries applied the results to adapt their national and binational communicable disease response strategies during the pandemic, although the Democratic Republic of the Congo used only the raw data rather than generating datasets and digitized products. This 3-country comparison highlights how governments create preparedness and response strategies adapted to their unique sociocultural and cross-border dynamics to strengthen global health security.
Subjects:
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Air Travel Communicable Diseases/epidemiology COVID-19 /epidemiology Democratic Republic Of The Congo Disease Outbreaks Humans Pandemics/prevention & Control
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(Suppl 1):S105-S113
Pubmed ID:
36502402
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC9745238
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Tanzania ; Uganda
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Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:35b34d529eea1c9e1b8b98a528af4f505d60acff4131e7d57b20da5ab7a9f929
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123323/cdc_123323_DS1.pdf
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