Assessing health systems in Guinea for prevention and control of priority zoonotic diseases: A One Health approach.

ABSTRACT: To guide One Health capacity building efforts in the Republic of Guinea in the wake of the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, we sought to identify and assess the existing systems and structures for zoonotic disease detection and control. We partnered with the government ministries responsible for human, animal, and environmental health to identify a list of zoonotic diseases - rabies, anthrax, brucellosis, viral hemorrhagic fevers, trypanosomiasis and highly pathogenic avian influenza - as the country's top priorities. We used each priority disease as a case study to identify existing processes for prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, laboratory confirmation, reporting and response across the three ministries. Results were used to produce disease-specific systems "maps" emphasi

SUBMITTER: Standley CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6479159 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature