2012年4月25日 | EN | FR Many African countries have weak capacities
to systematically measure the burden of disease Influenza
surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa could be improved and
sustained if national health authorities actively participated
in the process — starting with a small number of sentinel sites
or hospitals specifically selected for disease surveillance, say
researchers. Researchers implementing the Strengthening
Influenza Sentinel Surveillance in Africa (SISA) project
selected eight Sub-Saharan African countries — Angola, Cameroon,
Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Zambia — to
help improve their influenza surveillance and reporting
capacities. SISA is being implemented by Agence de Médecine
Préventive (AMP) in close collaboration with the WHO. The one-
year project, which ended in December 2011, helped to establish
new influenza surveillance systems in Angola and Sierra Leone,
and strengthened existing systems in the remaining countries.
The researchers assessed influenza surveilla