The African cholera surveillance network (Africhol) consortium meeting, 10–11 June 2015, Lomé, Togo

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Meeting Report

Delphine Sauvageot¹  Aline Munier¹  Martin Mengel¹  Bradford D. Gessner¹  Johara Nadri¹  Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade¹  Alexandre Blake²  Raymond B. Mhlanga³  Léonard Heyerdahl³  Issaka Ouedraogo⁴  Richard Wood⁵  Olubunmi E. Ojo⁶  Laurent Akilimali Mukelenge⁷  Abiba Banla Kere⁸  Jean-Claude B. Anné⁹  Isaac Phiri^1,10  Elibariki R. Mwakapeje^1,11  Ian J. Njeru^1,12  Issa Makumbi^1,13  Sakoba Keita^1,14  Lucienne Dempouo^1,15  José P. M. Langa^1,16  Lorenzo Pezzoli^1,17 

[1] Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France;Agence de Médecine Préventive, 21 bd Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France;Current affiliation: Epicentre, Paris, France;Agence de Médecine Préventive, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire;Agence de Médecine Préventive, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso;Agence de Médecine Préventive, Ferney-Voltaire, France;Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria;Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;Institut National d’Hygiène, Lomé, Togo;Institut Pasteur de Cote d’Ivoire, Centre National de Référence choléra et shigelloses, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire;Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe;Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya;Ministry of Health, National Disease Control, Kampala, Uganda;Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Guinea;Ministère de la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroon;National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique;World Health Organization, Secretariat of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC), Geneva, Switzerland;

关键词: Cholera;    Surveillance;    Africa;    Epidemiology;    Outbreaks;    Prevention;    Control;    Vaccination;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12919-016-0068-z

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

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).

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