ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2021
Evaluation of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) preparedness and readiness program in Uganda: 2018 to 2019.
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- Ebola at a critical juncture: preparedness must outpace transmission.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- One Health, Many Gaps: Rethinking Epidemic Intelligence in Resource-Limited Settings to Prepare for the Global Threat of Disease X.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Defining and identifying the critical elements of operational readiness for public health emergency events: a rapid scoping review.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Impact of supportive supervision visits on the availability of World Health Organization infection prevention and control core components in health facilities in Southwestern Uganda.Infection prevention in practice · 2024Article
- Community interventions for pandemic preparedness: A scoping review of pandemic preparedness lessons from HIV, COVID-19, and other public health emergencies of international concern.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Epidemiology of Ebolaviruses from an Etiological Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The role of international support programmes in global health security capacity building: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Sustainable strategies for Ebola virus disease outbreak preparedness in Africa: a case study on lessons learnt in countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022Article
- Indirect Effects of Ebola Virus Disease Epidemics on Health Systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia: A Scoping Review Supplemented with Expert Interviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Retrospective identification of key activities in Uganda's preparedness measures related to the 2018-2020 EVD outbreak in eastern DRC utilizing a framework evaluation tool.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionthe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its 10
methodsduring the EVD preparedness phase, Uganda's government conducted a risk assessment and divided the districts into three categories, based on the potential risk of EVD. Category I included districts that shared a border with the DRC provinces where EVD was ongoing or any other district with a direct transport route to the DRC. Category II were districts that shared a border with the DRC but not bordering the DRC provinces affected by the EVD outbreak. Category III was the remaining districts in Uganda. EVD-PR was implemented at the national level and in 22 category I districts. We interviewed key informants involved in program design, planning and implementation or monitoring at the national level and in five purposively selected category I districts.
resultsEbola virus disease preparedness and readiness was a success and this was attributed mainly to donor support, the ministry of health's technical capacity, good coordination, government support and community involvement. The resources invested in EVD-PR represented good value for the funds and the activities were well aligned to the public health priorities for Uganda.
conclusionEbola virus disease preparedness and readiness program in Uganda developed capacities that played an essential role in preventing cross border spread of EVD from the affected provinces in the DRC and enabled rapid containment of the two importation events. These capacities are now being used to detect and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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