Evaluation of community based surveillance in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following an influx of an estimated 742,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) established an active indicator-based Community Based Surveillance (CBS) in 13 sub-camps in Cox's Bazar in August 2017. Its objective was to detect epidemic prone diseases early for rapid response. We describe the surveillance, alert and response in place from epidemiological week 20 (12 May 2019) until 44 (2 November 2019).

Methods

Suspected cases were identified through passive health facility surveillance and active indicator-based CBS. CBS-teams conducted active case finding for suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea (AWD), acute jaundice syndrome (AJS), acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), dengue, diphtheria, measles and meningitis. We evaluate the followin

SUBMITTER: Van Boetzelaer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757896 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature