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SSHAP West Africa Hub: Health emergency cycles and social context in West Africa

This landscape paper summarises the contextual factors that shape health emergencies and responses to health emergencies in the West Africa region, drawing on examples from Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

West Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Report

Roundtable Report: Discussion on mpox in DRC and social science considerations for operational response

This report synthesises the discussions at a SSHAP-organised roundtable on the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo held in May 2024 to appraise the situation, with a focus on social science insights for informing context-sensitive risk communication…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Alleviating chronic food insecurity in South Sudan

This Key Considerations brief analyses the causes of food insecurity in South Sudan and the responses by government and non-government actors and partners, and offers considerations for these actors to support ending food insecurity, especially via bolstering agriculture and livelihoods.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Infographic

Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus infographic

This infographic summarises the insights from a recent key considerations brief on responding to floods in South Sudan, describing the multidimensional impacts of flooding on peace, health, livelihoods and governance.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Child engagement in the context of disease outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa

This brief explores why, when and how to engage children in the prevention, response and recovery stages of disease outbreaks.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Responding to floods in South Sudan through the humanitarian-peace-development nexus

This Key Considerations brief looks at interconnected problems in the context of South Sudan through a focus on flooding, with wider relevance to other countries in the region, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, experiencing similar…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2024

Briefing

Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region

El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural production, greater food insecurity and malnutrition, increased transmission of infectious diseases and effects on…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Report

Integrated Outbreak Analytics (IOA) of measles recurrence in the DRC, Kilwa health zone, Haut-Katanga Province – May 2023

In March 2023, in support of the Ministry of Health, at the request of the Measles Coordination Unit (Direction Surveillance Epidémiologique-DSE), the Integrated Analytics Cell (CAI) carried out an integrated analysis in the Kilwa health zone (HZ) to understand the…

CAI

2023

Multimedia

Comment une Cellule d’Analyse Intégrée des Epidémies (AIE) répond aux questions opérationnelles (FR)

L’objectif de notre partenariat est de faciliter et encourager les communautés et les autorités sanitaires à concevoir des stratégies de Santé Publique responsables, redevables et efficaces reposant sur l’analyse de données objectives et multisectorielles. L’AIE adopte une approche holistique…

Briefing

Community-Based Surveillance in Public Health

Recent large-scale epidemics and pandemics have demonstrated the importance of engaging communities as partners in preventing, detecting and responding to public health emergencies. Community-based surveillance (CBS), which relies on communities to report public health information, can be an important part…

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Situational analysis: Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania

This Key Considerations brief provides an overview of the Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, as well as contextual factors to inform considerations for responses in both countries.

SSHAP

2023

Briefing

Guidance Note on community engagement for cholera outbreak response in the East and Southern Africa region

The purpose of this guidance note is to support Ministries of Health, UNICEF, and other response partners to design and implement effective, community-centred, and data-driven community engagement for cholera outbreak response.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2023