Impact of poor disease surveillance system on COVID-19 response in africa: Time to rethink and rebuilt

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

Oluwakorede Joshua Adedeji¹  Melody Okereke²  Mohammad Mehedi Hasan³  Shubhika Jain⁴  Ayoola S. Fasawe⁵  Abdullahi Tunde Aborode⁶  Ayah Karra-Aly⁷ 

[1] Corresponding author. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, 1902, Bangladesh.;Division of Infectious Diseases, The Red-Green Research Centre, BICCB, Dhaka, 1215, Bangladesh;West African Institute of Public Health, Abuja, Nigeria;Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, 1902, Bangladesh;Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria;Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria;Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India;

关键词: COVID-19;    Health system;    Disease surveillance;    Africa;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Infectious disease outbreaks have long posed a public health threat, especially in Africa, where the incidence of infectious outbreaks has risen exponentially. Although, Africa has witnessed several outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola virus disease and other epidemic-prone diseases, little attention has been given towards strengthening the health surveillance systems. However, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered the region's already due to inefficient and ineffective health surveillance systems. However, the impact posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems in the region has been catastrophic, it has also stressed the importance of rethinking and focusing on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we examine how Africa's poor disease surveillance systems affected the responses and strategies aimed at COVID-19 containment. To ensure early disease outbreak identification and prompt public health interventions in Africa, the current disease surveillance and response mechanisms must be strengthened.

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