Community-based surveillance guidance

The handbook provides guidance to National Societies on Public Health Emergency Response Units focussed on Community-Based Surveillance (PH ERU CBS). It can also be used to consider how to implement CBS in emergency contexts. The handbook was originally developed in 2019. Its contents have been ... Read more

In August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared public health emergencies over a large epidemic of mpox - MPXV clade I in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and several other African countries. Suggested i... Read more

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A set of suggested key performance indicators (KPIs) for community-based surveillance (CBS) to support a more structured approach to monitoring, quality assurance and evaluation. The group of key performance indicators listed below include both process and operational indicators to support monitor... Read more

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Community-based surveillance systems are a key step in improving the early detection and assessment of disease outbreaks. These guiding principles build on the extensive experience of communities, and of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that support them, and offer advice on how communities ... Read more