Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Plan in West Africa July to December 2014. Annex 1
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Plan in West Africa. Annex 2
The World Health Organization is issuing a "roadmap" to guide and coordinate the international response to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa.
The aim is to stop ongoing Ebola transmission worldwide within 6–9 months, while rapid...ly managing the consequences of any further international spread. It also recognizes the need to address, in parallel, the outbreak’s broader socioeconomic impact.
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The immediate objective of the country visit to Cameroon was to ensure that the country is as operationally ready as possible to effectively and safely detect, investigate and report potential Ebola virus disease cases and to mount an effective response that will prevent a larger outbreak. After te...chnical working group meetings, field visits, a “table-top” exercise and a hospital-based simulation exercises were undertaken.
Key strengths and weaknesses were identified, and the following areas for improvement were proposed to the Ministry of Health: coordination, surveillance, contact tracing, infection prevention and control, rapid response teams, case management, social mobilization, laboratory, points of entry, budget, logistics.
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The preparedness strengthening team deployed to Ghana focused on specific objectives in order to assist the country in becoming as operationally prepared as possible to detect, investigate and report potential EVD cases effectively and safely and to mount an effective response to prevent a larger o...utbreak. To accomplish this goal, the team conducted “scoping” activities, stakeholder meetings, site visits and a “table-top” simulation exercise to determine what systems were in place and what aspects of preparedness could be strengthened.
It is organized in 10 components of the WHO consolidated checklist for EVD preparedness: 1) planning and coordination; 2) epidemiological and laboratory surveillance; 3) rapid response teams; 4) contact tracing; 5) points of entry; 6) laboratory; 7) case management; 8) infection prevention and control; 9) social mobilization and risk communication; 10) budget.
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Identified through evaluation of the response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Une mission d’appui regroupant des experts diligentés par l’OMS Genève s’est rendue au Bénin du 17 au 24 novembre 2014 pour aider le pays dans la mise en place de son plan de prévention et de riposte à une éventuelle épidémie de maladie à virus Ebola.
Dans ce rapport la mission esti...me que la situation actuelle du pays, caractérisée par une épidémie confirmée de fièvre de Lassa et la préparation de la riposte à la maladie à virus Ebola (MVE) demande, d’une part, l’organisation d’une riposte adéquate et d’autre part, un changement de paradigme. Concrètement, en mettant en place un dispositif comme si le pays se trouvait face à son premier cas de MVE plutôt qu’une préparation en l’absence de cas.
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The document contains preliminary report on all aspects of WHO’s response in the Ebola outbreak. WHO Member States will discuss the report at the sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.
The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is a document to guide WHO’s work in countries. CCS is a medium-term vision for WHO’s technical cooperation with a given Member State, and supports the country's national health policy, strategy or plan. Th...e CCS time frame is flexible to align with national cycles and processes. It is the basis for aligning WHO’s collaboration with other United Nations bodies and development partners at the country level.
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Guide to monitoring and evaluating