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Confl Health
November 2024
KIT Royal Institute, Mauritskade 63, 1092, Amsterdam, AD, The Netherlands.
Background: In outbreak-prone settings, community-based surveillance (CBS) systems can alert health authorities to respond in a timely manner where suspected cases of disease are being reported. After the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, the WHO and other stakeholders supported the establishment of CBS in Sierra Leone, for which community health workers (CHW) were trained to collect and report symptoms data of 11 priority health conditions in their communities. Our study objective was to assess feasibility and challenges to sustain CBS in a low resource setting as part of a World Bank evaluation of Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation's (MoHS) CBS and electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance & Response (eIDSR) systems.
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