Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
Detect
Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response
A. McKenzie André
, Augusto Lopez, Samantha Perkins, Stephanie Lambert, Lesley Chace, Nestor Noudeke, Aissatou Fall, and Biagio Pedalino
, Augusto Lopez, Samantha Perkins, Stephanie Lambert, Lesley Chace, Nestor Noudeke, Aissatou Fall, and Biagio Pedalino
Table 2
Proportion of districts or other designated subnational health unit with >1 trained FETP-Frontline graduate for 24 participating countries, 2016*
| Country | Total no. districts | % Districts with >1 Frontline FETP graduate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | ||
| Sierra Leone | 14 | 0 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 11 | 0 | 73 | 100 | 100 |
| Liberia | 90 | 0 | 57 | 76 | 76 |
| Senegal | 76 | 0 | 53 | 53 | 74 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 82 | NA | 15 | 15 | 29 |
| Benin | 82 | 0 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| Nigeria | 774 | NA | 14 | 23 | 26 |
| South Africa | 52 | NA | 0 | 4 | 17 |
| Cameroon | 178 | NA | 8 | 8 | 15 |
| Ghana | 216 | NA | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Uganda | 112 | NA | 4 | 13 | 13 |
| Tanzania | 169 | NA | 7 | 12 | 12 |
| Burkina Faso | 70 | NA | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Bangladesh | 490 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Malawi | 29 | NA | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 517 | NA | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| India | 687 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Ethiopia | 880 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
| Mauritania | 55 | NA | NA | 0 | 0 |
| Gambia | 43 | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Guinea | 33 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Mali | 49 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Pakistan | 149 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Togo | 40 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
*Most programs target participants at the district level or its equivalent. This is typically the first surveillance level at which data are aggregated (immediately above the health facility level). FETP, Field Epidemiology Training Program; NA, no coverage data available because the first cohort of FETP-Frontline had not yet graduated; Q, quarter.
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