Analyses of the performance of the Ebola virus disease alert management system in South Sudan: August 2018 to November 2019.

ABSTRACT: South Sudan implemented Ebola virus disease preparedness interventions aiming at preventing and rapidly containing any importation of the virus from the Democratic Republic of Congo starting from August 2018. One of these interventions was a surveillance system which included an Ebola alert management system. This study analyzed the performance of this system. A descriptive cross-sectional study of the Ebola virus disease alerts which were reported in South Sudan from August 2018 to November 2019 was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods. As of 30 November 2019, a total of 107 alerts had been detected in the country out of which 51 (47.7%) met the case definition and were investigated with blood samples collected for laboratory confirmation. Most (81%) of the investigat

SUBMITTER: Olu OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7728195 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature