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ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2024

COVID-19 pandemic response and Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in ECOWAS.

Virgil Kuassi Lokossou, Azuka Stephen Adeke, Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo, Laurent Comlan Mariame Bonkano, Aishat Bukola Usman, Lionel Sogbossi, Appolinaire Kima, Patrick Nguku, Simon Antara, Issiaka Sombie and 2 more

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Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Virgil Kuassi LokossouECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Azuka Stephen AdekeDepartment of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.
Chukwuma David UmeokonkwoAfrican Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda.
Laurent Comlan Mariame BonkanoECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Aishat Bukola UsmanECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Lionel SogbossiECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Appolinaire KimaECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Patrick NgukuAfrican Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
Simon AntaraAfrican Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda.
Issiaka SombieAfrican Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
Felix AgblaAfrican Field Epidemiology Network, Abuja, Nigeria.
Melchior Joel Codjovi AissiWest African Health Organization, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has been persistent with a huge demand for human health resources which is a vital component of its preparedness and response. Globally, the public health workforce through field epidemiology and laboratory training programme (FELTP) has been instrumental to global health security. We determined the status of FELTP in the region and its contributions to the COVID-19 pandemic response in the ECOWAS region. We conducted a desk review, shared a questionnaire among member states and organized a two-day online regional consultative meeting on field epidemiology training on 30

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COVID-19EpidemiologyPublic HealthHumansLaboratoriesLaboratory PersonnelPandemicsSurveys and QuestionnairesCOVID-19 pandemicECOWASfield epidemiology and laboratory training programmelessons learnt

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PMID39280815
PMCPMC11399452

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