On 17 October 2017, the Ugandan Ministry of Health notified WHO of a confirmed Marburg outbreak of Marburg Virus disease (MVD) in Kween district, Eastern Uganda. The outbreak was officially declared by the Ministry of health on 19 October 2017.
As of 7 November, four cases of MVD have been reported...- two confirmed (dead), one probable (dead) and one suspected. Other patients, previously reported as suspected cases, have since tested negative for the virus.
WHO has been implementing the Emergency Response Plan since 20 October 2017 when the Ministry of Health officially declared the outbreak. The Emergency Response Plan was developed on several assumptions which may now need to be revised.
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Chapter 7 from the book People's Movements in the 21st Century - Risks, Challenges and Benefits
Scientific advice
Prevention and control of communicable diseases in prison settings.
Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017
Moving from accelerated burden reduction to malaria elimination in Zambia
Key Populations Brief
Accessed November 2017
Recommendations, resources and references
A publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
Rutstein SE et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, 20:21579 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/21579 | http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.20.1.21579
Ensuring Access to Simple, Safe and Effective First-Line Medicines for Tuberculosis.
Accessed in November 2017.
A compendium of TB REACH case studies, lessons learned and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
Accessed November 2017.
A review of available evidence (2016).
28-29 June 2016; Geneva, Switzerland
The END TB strategy.