RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Implementing a DHIS2 Ebola virus disease module during the 2021 Guinea Ebola outbreak
JF BMJ Global Health
JO BMJ Global Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e009240
DO 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009240
VO 7
IS 5
A1 Carrie Eggers
A1 Lise Martel
A1 Amber Dismer
A1 Ruth Kallay
A1 Dean Sayre
A1 Mary Choi
A1 Salomon Corvil
A1 Almamy Kaba
A1 Bakary Keita
A1 Lamarana Diallo
A1 Mamadou Moussa Balde
A1 Mariama Bah
A1 Sekou Mohamed Camara
A1 Enogo Koivogui
A1 Joel Montgomery
A1 Sakoba Keita
YR 2022
UL http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e009240.abstract
AB In 2017, the national agency for health security (L’Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire—ANSS) in Guinea implemented the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) as the Ministry of Health national surveillance system to capture and report aggregate disease data. During 2019, the ANSS started using DHIS2 Tracker to collect case-based (individual-level) data for epidemic-prone diseases. In 2020, the capability was expanded, and it was used during the COVID-19 pandemic to capture data relevant to the COVID-19 response. When an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was announced in February 2021, the Tracker module was updated, and enhanced functionalities were developed to meet the needs for the emerging epidemic. This novel EVD module has components to capture information on cases, contacts, alerts, laboratory and vaccinations and provides a centralised site for all EVD outbreak data. It has since been expanded for use with future viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks.Data sharing not applicable as no data sets generated and/or analysed for this study.