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Strengthening health information surveillance: Implementing community-based surveillance in Sudan

This case study explores the 2018–22 implementation of a national community-based surveillance programme in Sudan designed to meet critical needs of the existing health surveillance system.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

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Enhancing Community Engagement Through Data Collection: Controlling the Cholera Epidemic in Mozambique

Case study focusing on post-cyclone cholera response activities

SSHAP

2020

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Real-Time Ebola Community Feedback Mechanism

Case study examining misinformation and mistrust in the Ebola epidemic

SSHAP

2020

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Understanding Sociocultural Dynamics to Enhance Control of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) Epidemics in Kenya

Case study addressing the issue of food shortage and economic losses

SSHAP

2020

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Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic

Case study addressing resistance to Ebola response measures

SSHAP

2020

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Learning the Lessons of Crisis: Mobilising Knowledge During a Global Health Emergency

Case study addressing issues around knowledge sharing, focusing on the example of Ebola

SSHAP

2020

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Rift Valley Fever: Local Knowledge, Health-Seeking Behaviours and Attitudes Towards Vaccination in Southern Uganda

Case study addressing the challenge of vaccine uptake and regulating the unknown

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2020

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Building a Community Health Worker Programme During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone

Case study looking into the challenge of a lack of trust and referrals to biomedical health care

SSHAP

2020

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Participation with a Cholera-Exposed Population in Haiti: Finding their Own Solutions

Case study looking at the challenge of cholera in Haiti

SSHAP

2020

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Beyond the Biomedical: Ebola Response and Recovery Through a Psychosocial Lens

Humanitarian responders must look beyond the biomedical lens to ensure successful interventions across global health programmes

SSHAP

2020

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People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia

This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected…

UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica

2020