ArticleBMJ global health2023
Kenya's experience implementing event-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Advance Warning and Response Systems in Kenya: A Scoping Review.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Early warning and response systems for respiratory disease outbreaks: lessons learnt from cluster-associated cases of acute respiratory illnesses in Gilgil subcounty, Nakuru County, Kenya, 2021.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Event-based surveillance in the WHO African region: baseline implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Establishing a community event-based surveillance system in Kadoma City, Zimbabwe: a mixed-methods study protocol.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Piloting an event-based surveillance model in private hospitals for early detection of disease clusters, Kerala, India.The Indian journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Scaling up of electronic case-based disease surveillance reporting for COVID-19 and other notifiable diseases through capacity building and antigen RDT provision: a case study of Sierra Leone.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Improved cholera control in Kenya: A retrospective analysis of 2017-2019 in Nairobi and Homabay.Journal of public health in Africa · 2024Article
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Abstract
Event-based surveillance (EBS) can be implemented in most settings for the detection of potential health threats by recognition and immediate reporting of predefined signals. Such a system complements existing case-based and sentinel surveillance systems. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) modified and expanded an EBS system in both community and health facility settings for the reporting of COVID-19-related signals. Using an electronic reporting tool, m-Dharura, MOH recorded 8790 signals reported, with 3002 (34.2%) verified as events, across both community and health facility sites from March 2020 to June 2021. A subsequent evaluation found that the EBS system was flexible enough to incorporate the addition of COVID-19-related signals during a pandemic and maintain high rates of reporting from participants. Inadequate resources for follow-up investigations to reported events, lack of supportive supervision for some community health volunteers and lack of data system interoperability were identified as challenges to be addressed as the EBS system in Kenya continues to expand to additional jurisdictions.
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