(task) Improving Community Resilience for Public Health Emergencies in West Africa | Chatham House

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resilience, Ebola, disease surveillance
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> Improving Community Resilience for Public Health Emergencies in West Africa
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> This project aims to establish an evidence base to support the establishment of a disease surveillance network in West Africa.
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> The Ebola crisis in West Africa was unexpected, and unprecedented in terms of its morbidity and mortality. It has exposed critical weaknesses in public health and personal health systems in the three most affected countries. The humanitarian cost of the epidemic has been huge. It has also provoked a major international response.
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> Countries and other key stakeholders are calling for:
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> Coordination of partners, strategies, and interventions across affected countries.
> Improved communications flow across borders.
> Establishment of an informal disease surveillance network to enhance IHR implementation in the short, medium and long term.
> Guidance on long-term planning for how ‘Ebola specific’ solutions (eg new diagnostics, convalescent serum therapies, isolation wards , contact tracing and infection control) can be integrated and institutionalized into nascent health systems, with an eye to improving resilience in the face of the next crisis.
> This project seeks to establish an evidence base to support the establishment of a disease surveillance network in West Africa, and to document how the alert and response system has worked in past epidemics to create a strong evidence base for the future.
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