Profil des initiatives communautaires de riposte contre la pandémie COVID-19 en Tunisie

INTRODUCTION: Community participation is a component of the global strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, providing considerable support to health professionals in the prevention, control and management of care. OBJECTIVE : Community participation is a component of the global strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, providing considerable support to health professionals in the prevention, control and management of care. MATERIAL AND METHODS : This is a documentary search, conducted between March 23 and April 05, 2020, on three sources of data: Google / news (covering eleven Tunisian information portals) and two national sites: N3awen. com (www.n3aween.com) and Horizon 2020 Tunisie.org (horizon2020tunisia.org/initiatives-tunisiennes-pour-vaincre-le-covid19 /). The community initiatives identified have been described according to their categories (prevention, control, and management), stakeholders (citizens, associations, establishments) and interventions (information, implementation and logistics). RESULTS: A total of 63 Tunisian community participation projects were identified during the fight against COVID-19, including 35 for «prevention», 13 for «control» and 15 for contribution to the management of care. These community initiatives, developed mainly by establishments (38%), were in the «Information / Education / Communication» category (45%). CONCLUSION: During the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, community participation was characterized by the diversity of initiatives covering the dimensions: population, at risk and targeted. The National Health System should reconsider the place of the community in planning, implementing and evaluating response strategies against, not only health emergencies, but also all of the components of the overall burden of disease.