Adapting Longstanding Public Health Collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2021

Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya (CDC Kenya) have maintained a 40-year partnership during which measures were implemented to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the MOH and CDC Kenya rapidly responded to mitigate disease impact on Kenya's 52 million residents. We describe activities undertaken jointly by the MOH and CDC Kenya that lessened the effects of COVID-19 during 5 epidemic waves from March through December 2021. Activities included establishing national and county-level emergency operations centers and implementing workforce development and deployment, infection prevention and control training, laboratory diagnostic advancement, enhanced surveillance, and information management. The COVID-19 pandemic provided fresh impetus for the government of Kenya to establish a national public health institute, launched in January 2022, to consolidate its public health activities and counter COVID-19 and future infectious, vaccine-preventable, and emerging zoonotic diseases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Emerging infectious diseases - 28(2022), 13 vom: 22. Dez., Seite S159-S167

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Herman-Roloff, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Aman, Rashid [VerfasserIn]
Samandari, Taraz [VerfasserIn]
Kasera, Kadondi [VerfasserIn]
Emukule, Gideon O [VerfasserIn]
Amoth, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Tai-Ho [VerfasserIn]
Kisivuli, Jackton [VerfasserIn]
Weyenga, Herman [VerfasserIn]
Hunsperger, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Onyango, Clayton [VerfasserIn]
Juma, Bonventure [VerfasserIn]
Munyua, Peninah [VerfasserIn]
Wako, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Akelo, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Kimanga, Davies [VerfasserIn]
Ndegwa, Linus [VerfasserIn]
Mohamed, Ahmed Abade [VerfasserIn]
Okello, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Kariuki, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
De Cock, Kevin M [VerfasserIn]
Bulterys, Marc [VerfasserIn]
CDC-Kenya COVID-19 Response Team [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bilateral partnership
CDC
COVID-19
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coronavirus
Coronavirus disease
Emerging disease outbreak response
Global Health Security Agenda
Global health security
Journal Article
Kenya
PEPFAR
Respiratory infections
Review
SARS
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Viruses
Zoonoses

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.12.2022

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3201/eid2813.211550

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350146047