About the project
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that a delayed detection of cases and clusters, a lack of awareness of the rate of spread, a high spatial extent of the pandemic, and a too weak response during the alert phase weigh heavily on the evolution of the pandemic. Sub-Saharan African countries need to generate data on COVID-19 dynamics, on the demand for care in primary health facilities and hospitals, and on the needs for health care and protective equipment and therapeutics in order to establish adequate measures.
Progress
March 2021 marked the beginning of the active epidemiological surveillance activities in Cotonou, Allada and Natitingou, the three project sites in Benin. The activities, which will take place in three hospitals and six rural front-line health facilities, aim to detect COVID-19 cases and contacts, as well as assess risk factors for COVID-19 infection in healthcare workers and establish a COVID-19 hospital information system in order to detect increasing demands.
Benin
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Burkina Faso
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