ArticleBMJ global health2025
Implementing the 7-1-7 target to improve epidemic preparedness and response in Uganda.
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- Completion of early response actions accounted for most elapsed time across the 7-1-7 pathway in Sierra Leone, 2023-2025.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Early Action Review of Detection, Notification, and Response Timeliness during Cross-Border Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak, Uganda, 2026.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Review
- Adoption and use of the 7-1-7 target for timely outbreak detection, notification and early response in the human and animal sectors in humanitarian crisis-affected South Sudan: A mixed-methods study during 2025.Wellcome open research · 2026Article
- Evolution of health system resources and factors associated with the quality of care for epidemic-prone diseases in Guinea: a national cross-sectional study.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Article
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Early and effective response actions are vital to mitigate outbreaks and other public health events. The 7-1-7 target (7 days to detect, 1 day to notify and 7 days to complete early response actions) is a performance improvement approach for epidemic preparedness. 7-1-7 data were collected by rapid response teams and presented to stakeholders at National Task Force (NTF) meetings, Uganda's primary outbreak coordination platform, in the days immediately after event detection. From October 2021 to December 2022, 7-1-7 data were collected for 13 ongoing events that were presented at NTF meetings as well as 29 lower-risk events for which the NTF was not convened. Among these 42 events, 22 (52%) met the 7-day detection target, 31 (74%) met the 1-day notification target and 19 (45%) met the 7-day early response target, with 10 (24%) meeting all 7-1-7 target components. Systems bottlenecks identified across the 42 events were consolidated, shared with stakeholders and integrated into Uganda's National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) Operational Plan. Of the 108 subactivities in the 2023 NAPHS Operational Plan, 17% aligned with recommended activities that emerged from 7-1-7 implementation. Uganda's experience demonstrated that real-time 7-1-7 reviews improved ongoing public health responses and that synthesising 7-1-7 data across events identified recurrent systems bottlenecks that warranted prioritisation during NAPHS operational planning. We recommend that other countries adopt WHO's 2023 guidance on incorporating the 7-1-7 approach into Early Action Reviews to improve their outbreak responses.
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