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Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
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Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response

A. McKenzie AndréComments to Author , Augusto Lopez, Samantha Perkins, Stephanie Lambert, Lesley Chace, Nestor Noudeke, Aissatou Fall, and Biagio Pedalino
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.M. André, A. Lopez, S. Perkins, S. Lambert, L. Chace, B. Pedalino); African Field Epidemiology Training Network, Kampala, Uganda (N. Noudeke, A. Fall)

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Table 3

Effect of FETP-Frontline training on timeliness of surveillance reporting by health district, Benin, epidemiologic weeks 25–36, 2016*

Health district Epidemiologic week
Workshop 1
 Fieldwork 1
 Workshop 2
 Fieldwork 2
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
NIKKI 94 94 88 56 31 31 38 38 44 75 94 94
SO-AVA 56 56 56 78 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
PEV d'Abomey-Calavi 25 25 38 50 63 75 75 88 100 100 100 100
Save 0 0 42 83 83 92 100 100 100 100 100 100
Zagnanado 25 0 0% 50 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Malanville 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Allada 25 25 50 75 100 100 25 50 25 75 100 75
Cotonou 6 NR NR NR NR NR NR 50 50 100 75 100 100
Aguégués 0 0 0 0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Pobe 67 83 100 83 83 83 100 100 100 100 100 100
Abomey-Calavi 25 25 38 50 63 75 75 88 100 100 100 100
Ze 50 75 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Sèmè-Podji 30 20 30 40 60 80 90 90 100 100 100 100
Ifangni 9 27 9 9 9 36 9 9 9 9 9 45
Adja-Ouèrè 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Adjarra 14 29 43 43 57 57 71 57 71 57 57 57
Tchaourou 31 54 46 46 46 62 100 100 100 100 100 100
Perere 0 0 27 36 36 36 45 36 36 45 18 36
Kalale 27 27 40 53 87 93 67 80 87 87 87 93
Cotonou V 0 0 0 0 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75
Segbana 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Cotonou I and IV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weekly average 37 40 50 55 71 76 74 75 79 82 84 85

*Timeliness is defined as the percentage of reports from the health facility level that are delivered to the district by a predetermined deadline (typically weekly). FETP, Field Epidemiology Training Program; NR, not reported.

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