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Nigeria modernises disease surveillance — but is it building real digital public infrastructure?

In Nigeria, controlling infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, Lassa fever, cholera, and diphtheria has long been hampered ...
Opinion
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Adirieje urges stronger community-based surveillance to boost health security

The Chief Executive Officer of Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA), Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, has called for strengthened community-driven disease surveillance systems to improve early detection and ...
Homeland Security Today

Africa CDC, WHO and RKI Launch a Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Africa

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) launched a Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease ...
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Uganda Launches the Third Edition of the National Guidelines for Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response

Uganda launched the Third Edition of the National Guidelines for Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) at Golden Tulip Hotel in Kampala. The third edition highlights new methods of ...
Medscape

One Health: A Crucial Collaborative Tool for Early Disease Surveillance

In the past several years, the world has seen an unprecedented emergence of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential. Epidemics of West Nile virus, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19, and mpox show how the ...
Luxembourg Government

Luxembourg presents the PHRESH project, an EU-supported initiative to strengthen the country's epidemiological preparedness and response

Luxembourg is stepping up the digitalization of infectious disease surveillance through the PHRESH (Public Health Rapid Epidemiological Surveillance Hub) project (2025-2028).
The Nation Newspaper

AFI surveillance key to outbreak response, says U.S. CDC

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) has called for sustaining and strengthening Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) surveillance in Nigeria by addressing persistent ...
Asian News International

Health Ministry launches Disease surveillance program to strengthen response to bio-emergencies

New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): In a move to bolster the country's preparedness against biological threats, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the ...
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AI Tool In National Disease Surveillance Helped Issue Over 5,000 Alerts To Health Authorities: Data

An artificial intelligence tool deployed by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in 2022 may have helped issue more than 5,000 alerts of infectious outbreaks to health authorities in ...
The Lancet

Chikungunya and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome added to Class B notifiable infectious diseases in China

Chikungunya and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) are two distinct but increasingly important vector-borne public health threats in China. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease ...
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PB okays centralized disease monitoring

CEBU, Philippines — All local government units (LGUs) and hospitals across the Province of Cebu will now be required to establish their own Epidemiology and Surveillance Units (ESUs) following the ...