Sustainable strategies for Ebola virus disease outbreak preparedness in Africa: a case study on lessons learnt in countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Caroline S RyanMarie-Roseline D BelizaireMiriam NanyunjaOlushayo Oluseun OluYahaya Ali AhmedAnderson LattMatthew Tut KolBertrand BamulekeJayne TusiimeNadia NsabimbonaIshata ContehShamiso NyashanuPatrick Otim RamadanSolomon Fisseha WoldetsadikJean-Pierre Mulunda NkataJim T NtwariSenya D NzeyimanaLeopold OuedraogoGeorges BatonaVedaste NdahindwaElizabeth A MgambMagdalene ArmahJoseph Francis WamalaArgata Guracha GuyoAlex Yao Sokemawu FreemanAlexander ChimbaruInnocent KomakechMuhau KukuWalter M FirminoGrace E SagutiFaraja MsemwaShikanga O-TipoPrecious C KalubulaNgoy NsengaAmbrose Otau TalisunaPublished in: Infectious diseases of poverty (2022)
Despite several international frameworks established at the global level for emergency preparedness, a shortfall exists between global policy and practice in countries at high risk of cross border transmission from persistent Ebola virus disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With renewed global health commitment for country emergency preparedness resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and cumulating in a resolution for a pandemic preparedness treaty, the time to review and address these gaps and provide recommendations for more sustainable and integrative approaches to emergency preparedness towards achieving global health security is now.