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Epidemic prevention

Group photo of participants in Resolve to Save Lives and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's Program Management for Epidemic Preparedness (PMEP) Workshop

Activating leadership to strengthen Nigeria’s health security

Health care workers participate in a patient simulation simulation exercise in Sierra Leone.

How fake patients are helping real health facilities prevent epidemics

Foundations for sustainable health panel at WHA

Sharing a vision for epidemic-ready, climate resilient primary health care at the World Health Assembly

Epidemics that Didn’t Happen: How South Sudan stopped a cholera outbreak with no reported deaths

Ethiopia National Infection Prevention and Control Program (IPC) Monitoring and Evaluation Plan 2021/22-2025/26

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Ethiopia’s national Infection Prevention and Control strategy. .
Document cover screenshot reading Ethiopia Ministry of Health National Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Surveillance Guideline

Ethiopia National Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Surveillance Guideline

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
A guide for IPC professionals focused on the surveillance of infections that occur during health care delivery.
screenshot of report cover, National Infection Prevention and Control Strategy and Roadmap 2021/22-2025/26 (Ethiopia IPC Strategy)

Ethiopia National Infection Prevention and Control Strategy and Roadmap 2021/22-2025/26

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
The strategic IPC interventions planned to prevent, reduce and control the development of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Ethiopia.
Screenshot from Ethiopia's IPC manual volume 2

Ethiopia national IPC reference manual, Volume 2: Advanced and special settings

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
Volume II of Ethiopia’s national IPC manual covers advanced and special settings in infection prevention and control.
Screenshot from Ethiopia's IPC manual

Ethiopia national IPC reference manual, Volume 1: General infection prevention and control

Ministry of Health Ethiopia
Volume I of the IPC manual of record for all health care delivery systems in Ethiopia, covering general principles. See Volume II for advanced IPC and special settings.

Unleashing the full potential of 7-1-7

7-1-7 Alliance
A strategic guide for international partners on the powerful system improvement tool that drives accountability, reveals bottlenecks, and informs targeted investments.
flowchart graphic on Climate-informed strategies for epidemic readiness _from signals to systems, Resolve to Save Lives

From signals to systems: Strengthening epidemic readiness through climate-informed strategies

Resolve to Save Lives
Strengthening epidemic readiness by integrating climate data into health systems.
7-1-7 bottleneck analysis screenshot

From 18 countries to yours: Actionable 7‑1‑7 bottleneck insights

7-1-7 Alliance
Find out how these 18 countries are leveraging 7-1-7 bottleneck data to prioritize investments and contain outbreaks faster.

Bridging health security funding gaps with rapid outbreak financing

Screenshot of web page: What a 7-1-7 bottleneck analysis across 18 countries taught us – and how you can do your own analysis to inform your country priorities

Actionable 7‑1‑7 bottleneck insights: Resources for rapid outbreak investigation

7-1-7 Alliance
Solutions to a common 7-1-7 bottleneck: lack of available resources to initiate outbreak response.

Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We explore how the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC)’s event management system, SITAware, supported the agency with the management of 300 incidents in 2022.

Recommendations: Strengthening country architecture for epidemic preparedness

Resolve to Save Lives
Five recommendations for strengthening health security at the country level—developed and refined hand-in-hand with governments and partners.

RTSL donates IPC supplies toward an “Epidemic-ready” Ethiopia

A research agenda for urban health security

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
We outline ten key themes for strengthening health security in urban environments, allowing cities to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from health threats.

Highlighting epidemic prevention at the 2025 Africa Health Agenda International Conference

Carnival celebrations in Recife

With significant progress in Recife, Brazil expands 7-1-7

Three action items for a coordinated response to the threat of H5N1 in the U.S. and beyond

Participants in a Resolve to Save Lives IPC advocacy workshop in Ethiopia gather for a group photo

Advocacy for action: domestic financing for IPC in Ethiopia

Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Strategy

Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Strategy

Health Security
How can health security capacities be measured at the subnational level? This tool includes 14 technical areas and 35 indicators to assess capacities in federated systems.

Ethiopia adopts proclamation to improve delivery of health services

Advancing gender equity in Africa’s digital health transformation

Training session for project officers and ERPHC mentors in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Credit: ICAP at Columbia University

How “Epidemic-Ready” health facilities in Sierra Leone stopped measles in its tracks

An ERPHC mentorship session at a health facility in Uganda. Credit: Uganda Infectious Diseases Institute

“Epidemic-Ready” health care workers in Uganda sound the alarm to end outbreaks faster

Field investigation for the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Kasese. Photo credit: Kasese Local Government

Widespread adoption of 7-1-7 in Uganda leads to rapid improvement and increased community protection

Distribution of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) supplies at a holy water pilgrimage site in Amhara, Ethiopia. Image credit: Hanna Mekonnen, Ethiopian Public Health Institute.

Enhanced situational awareness: taking action to stop outbreaks before they begin in Ethiopia

Using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in the private sector, India

Using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy

IJTLD
Can 7-1-7 help household contacts of tuberculosis patients get started on preventive therapy? In India, sites using the timeliness metric saw an increase in household contacts starting treatment.