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Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study
OBJECTIVES: Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus which affects mostly young children below the age of 15 years. For surveillance children with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) are tracked. In Zimbabwe every district should report two cases per 100,000 population of children...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3981-6 |
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author | Muzondo, Morgen Shamu, Amadeus Shambira, Gerald Gombe, Notion Tafara Juru, Tsitsi Patience Tshimanga, Mufuta |
author_facet | Muzondo, Morgen Shamu, Amadeus Shambira, Gerald Gombe, Notion Tafara Juru, Tsitsi Patience Tshimanga, Mufuta |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus which affects mostly young children below the age of 15 years. For surveillance children with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) are tracked. In Zimbabwe every district should report two cases per 100,000 population of children under the age of 15 years old. In 2017, Mwenezi district failed to detect any AFP cases. We therefore evaluated the AFP surveillance system in Mwenezi district. We conducted a surveillance system evaluation using the updated Centers for Disease Control guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems. We interviewed health workers in Mwenezi district and looked at AFP records from January to December 2017. RESULTS: The main reasons for failure to report a case in 2017 were the vastness of the district with bad road networks as well as lack of a dedicated vehicle to carry out EPI outreach activities. About a quarter, 24%, of the health workers did not know the specimen that is used in AFP diagnosis. The AFP surveillance system in Mwenezi district was performing poorly due to lack of active search of cases in the community caused by disruption of EPI outreach activities. |
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spelling | pubmed-62889692018-12-14 Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study Muzondo, Morgen Shamu, Amadeus Shambira, Gerald Gombe, Notion Tafara Juru, Tsitsi Patience Tshimanga, Mufuta BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus which affects mostly young children below the age of 15 years. For surveillance children with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) are tracked. In Zimbabwe every district should report two cases per 100,000 population of children under the age of 15 years old. In 2017, Mwenezi district failed to detect any AFP cases. We therefore evaluated the AFP surveillance system in Mwenezi district. We conducted a surveillance system evaluation using the updated Centers for Disease Control guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems. We interviewed health workers in Mwenezi district and looked at AFP records from January to December 2017. RESULTS: The main reasons for failure to report a case in 2017 were the vastness of the district with bad road networks as well as lack of a dedicated vehicle to carry out EPI outreach activities. About a quarter, 24%, of the health workers did not know the specimen that is used in AFP diagnosis. The AFP surveillance system in Mwenezi district was performing poorly due to lack of active search of cases in the community caused by disruption of EPI outreach activities. BioMed Central 2018-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6288969/ /pubmed/30526638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3981-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Muzondo, Morgen Shamu, Amadeus Shambira, Gerald Gombe, Notion Tafara Juru, Tsitsi Patience Tshimanga, Mufuta Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title | Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title_full | Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title_short | Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Mwenezi district, Masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
title_sort | evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis (afp) surveillance system in mwenezi district, masvingo, 2018: a descriptive study |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3981-6 |
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