1. Dengue expansion in Africa—Not recognized or not happening?
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Thomas, Jaenisch, Thomas, Junghanss, Bridget, Wills, Oliver J, Brady, Isabella, Eckerle, Andrew, Farlow, Simon I, Hay, Philip J, McCall, Jane P, Messina, Victor, Ofula, Amadou A, Sall, Anavaj, Sakuntabhai, Raman, Velayudhan, G R William, Wint, Herve, Zeller, Harold S, Margolis, Osman, Sankoh, Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], Oxford University Clinical Research Unit [Ho Chi Minh City] (OUCRU), University of Oxford [Oxford], Universitätsklinikum Bonn (UKB), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), United States Army (U.S. Army), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Génétique fonctionnelle des Maladies infectieuses - Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), World Health Organisation (WHO), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [San Juan], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH Network), The expert conference on dengue in Africa in Accra, Ghana, was supported by European Union grant FP7-281803 IDAMS., Members of the Dengue in Africa Study Group: Thierry A. Ouedraogo (Nouna HDSS, Burkina Faso), Oliver J. Brady, Andrew Farlow, Simon I. Hay, Janey P. Messina, (Oxford University, Oxford, UK), Isabella Eckerle (University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany), Moses Gwamaka (Rufiji HDSS, Tanzania), Thomas Jaenisch, Thomas Junghanss (Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany), Harold S. Margolis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA), Philip J. McCall (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK), Abraham Oduro (Navrongo HDSS, Ghana), Victor Ofula (US Army Medical Research Unit–Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya), Osman Sankoh (INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Anavaj Sakunthabhai (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France), Amadou A. Sall (Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal), Herrmann Sorgho (Nanoro HDSS, Burkina Faso), Alfred Tiono (Sapone HDSS, Burkina Faso), Raman Velayudhan (World Health Organization, Geneva), Bridget Wills (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), G.R. William Wint (Environmental Research Group Limited, Oxford, UK), Hervé Zeller (European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm, Sweden)., European Project: 281803,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2011-single-stage,IDAMS(2011), University of Oxford, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [Stockholm, Sweden] (ECDC)
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Economic growth ,Mosquito Control ,Endemic Diseases ,Happening ,lcsh:Medicine ,MESH: Dengue ,Dengue virus ,MESH: Africa ,medicine.disease_cause ,Diagnostic tools ,MESH: Dengue Virus ,Dengue fever ,Disease Outbreaks ,disease burden ,Health services ,0302 clinical medicine ,expansion ,Aedes ,Health care ,diagnostics ,MESH: Animals ,030212 general & internal medicine ,MESH: Incidence ,MESH: Disease Outbreaks ,MESH: Mosquito Control ,Health Policy ,Incidence ,MESH: Aedes ,Online Report ,3. Good health ,Infectious Diseases ,disease incidence ,MESH: Endemic Diseases ,MESH: Health Policy ,epidemiology ,policy ,Microbiology (medical) ,Dengue Expansion in Africa—Not Recognized or Not Happening? ,030231 tropical medicine ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,viruses ,Health policy ,MESH: Humans ,dengue virus ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,medicine.disease ,dengue ,Africa ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Endemic diseases ,business ,vector - Abstract
Addressing this expansion is essential before control and prevention of dengue are implemented., An expert conference on Dengue in Africa was held in Accra, Ghana, in February 2013 to consider key questions regarding the possible expansion of dengue in Africa. Four key action points were highlighted to advance our understanding of the epidemiology of dengue in Africa. First, dengue diagnostic tools must be made more widely available in the healthcare setting in Africa. Second, representative data need to be collected across Africa to uncover the true burden of dengue. Third, established networks should collaborate to produce these types of data. Fourth, policy needs to be informed so the necessary steps can be taken to provide dengue vector control and health services.
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- 2014