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Toward Establishing Integrated, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Meningitis Surveillance in Africa to Better Inform Vaccination Strategies

Large populations across sub-Saharan Africa remain at risk of devastating acute bacterial meningitis epidemics and endemic disease. Meningitis surveillance is a cornerstone of disease control, essential for describing temporal changes in disease epidemiology, the rapid detection of outbreaks, guidin...

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Autores principales: Kwambana-Adams, Brenda Anna, Cohen, Adam L, Hampton, Lee, Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino, Heyderman, Robert S, Antonio, Martin, Bita, Andre, Mwenda, Jason Mathiu
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8409533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34469559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab268
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author Kwambana-Adams, Brenda Anna
Cohen, Adam L
Hampton, Lee
Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino
Heyderman, Robert S
Antonio, Martin
Bita, Andre
Mwenda, Jason Mathiu
author_facet Kwambana-Adams, Brenda Anna
Cohen, Adam L
Hampton, Lee
Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino
Heyderman, Robert S
Antonio, Martin
Bita, Andre
Mwenda, Jason Mathiu
author_sort Kwambana-Adams, Brenda Anna
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description Large populations across sub-Saharan Africa remain at risk of devastating acute bacterial meningitis epidemics and endemic disease. Meningitis surveillance is a cornerstone of disease control, essential for describing temporal changes in disease epidemiology, the rapid detection of outbreaks, guiding vaccine introduction and monitoring vaccine impact. However, meningitis surveillance in most African countries is weak, undermined by parallel surveillance systems with little to no synergy and limited laboratory capacity. African countries need to implement comprehensive meningitis surveillance systems to adapt to the rapidly changing disease trends and vaccine landscapes. The World Health Organization and partners have developed a new investment case to restructure vaccine-preventable disease surveillance. With this new structure, countries will establish comprehensive and sustainable meningitis surveillance systems integrated with greater harmonization between population-based and sentinel surveillance systems. There will also be stronger linkage with existing surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases, such as polio, measles, yellow fever, and rotavirus, as well as with other epidemic-prone diseases to leverage their infrastructure, transport systems, equipment, human resources and funding. The implementation of these concepts is currently being piloted in a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa with support from the World Health Organization and other partners. African countries need to take urgent action to improve synergies and coordination between different surveillance systems to set joint priorities that will inform action to control devastating acute bacterial meningitis effectively.
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spelling pubmed-84095332021-09-02 Toward Establishing Integrated, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Meningitis Surveillance in Africa to Better Inform Vaccination Strategies Kwambana-Adams, Brenda Anna Cohen, Adam L Hampton, Lee Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino Heyderman, Robert S Antonio, Martin Bita, Andre Mwenda, Jason Mathiu J Infect Dis Commentaries Large populations across sub-Saharan Africa remain at risk of devastating acute bacterial meningitis epidemics and endemic disease. Meningitis surveillance is a cornerstone of disease control, essential for describing temporal changes in disease epidemiology, the rapid detection of outbreaks, guiding vaccine introduction and monitoring vaccine impact. However, meningitis surveillance in most African countries is weak, undermined by parallel surveillance systems with little to no synergy and limited laboratory capacity. African countries need to implement comprehensive meningitis surveillance systems to adapt to the rapidly changing disease trends and vaccine landscapes. The World Health Organization and partners have developed a new investment case to restructure vaccine-preventable disease surveillance. With this new structure, countries will establish comprehensive and sustainable meningitis surveillance systems integrated with greater harmonization between population-based and sentinel surveillance systems. There will also be stronger linkage with existing surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases, such as polio, measles, yellow fever, and rotavirus, as well as with other epidemic-prone diseases to leverage their infrastructure, transport systems, equipment, human resources and funding. The implementation of these concepts is currently being piloted in a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa with support from the World Health Organization and other partners. African countries need to take urgent action to improve synergies and coordination between different surveillance systems to set joint priorities that will inform action to control devastating acute bacterial meningitis effectively. Oxford University Press 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8409533/ /pubmed/34469559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab268 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cohen, Adam L
Hampton, Lee
Nhantumbo, Aquino Albino
Heyderman, Robert S
Antonio, Martin
Bita, Andre
Mwenda, Jason Mathiu
Toward Establishing Integrated, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Meningitis Surveillance in Africa to Better Inform Vaccination Strategies
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title_full Toward Establishing Integrated, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Meningitis Surveillance in Africa to Better Inform Vaccination Strategies
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title_short Toward Establishing Integrated, Comprehensive, and Sustainable Meningitis Surveillance in Africa to Better Inform Vaccination Strategies
title_sort toward establishing integrated, comprehensive, and sustainable meningitis surveillance in africa to better inform vaccination strategies
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34469559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab268
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