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7-1-7

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.
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.
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.
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.

7-1-7: rapid improvement for early disease detection and response

7-1-7 Alliance
An introduction to the 7-1-7 target, its uses, and how it complements existing tools and assessments.

7-1-7 for Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation

7-1-7 Alliance

Advocacy as easy as 7-1-7

7-1-7 Alliance

Continuous improvement with 7-1-7

7-1-7 Alliance

Why 7-1-7? The evidence behind the global target for containing epidemic threat

7-1-7 Alliance

Overview of the 7-1-7 Alliance

7-1-7 Alliance

Digital toolkit

7-1-7 Alliance

Operational Planning and Priority-Setting Using 7-1-7 to Strengthen Uganda’s Health Security

Resolve to Save Lives

7-1-7 Pilot Project

Resolve to Save Lives
Timeliness metrics for screening and preventing TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Kenya

Timeliness metrics for screening and preventing TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Kenya

IJTLD OPEN
Our colleagues assessed whether the 7-1-7”timeliness metric could be implemented in Kenya for screening and tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT), and proposed an adaptation: “3-5-7”.
TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’

TB preventive therapy: uptake and time to initiation during implementation of ‘7-1-7’

IJTLD OPEN
Can 7-1-7 increase the number of household contacts of tuberculosis patients on preventive therapy? In four contexts, most contacts were notified quickly, but structural barriers kept some from care.
Implementation of the 7-1-7 target for detection, notification, and response to public health threats in five countries: a retrospective, observational study

Implementation of the 7-1-7 target for detection, notification, and response to public health threats in five countries: a retrospective, observational study

The Lancet Global Health
We demonstrate how the 7-1-7 target supports timely detection, notification, and response to outbreaks by assessing public health events in Brazil, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Impact of a Newly Established Revolving Outbreak Investigation Fund on Timeliness of Response to Public Health Emergencies in Nigeria

Impact of a Newly Established Revolving Outbreak Investigation Fund on Timeliness of Response to Public Health Emergencies in Nigeria

Health Security
We show how revolving outbreak investigation funds (ROIF) can accelerate outbreak response times when coupled with streamlined approval processes.
Feasibility, enablers and challenges of using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in Pakistan

Feasibility, enablers and challenges of using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in Pakistan

PLoS One
Could 7-1-7 help put an end to tuberculosis? Field staff in Pakistan found the target both feasible and useful for improving the timeliness of diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Applying ‘timeliness’ to the screening and prevention of TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients

IJTLD OPEN
Can 7-1-7 work for tuberculosis? Our experts explore timeliness metrics for screening and TBT delivery.
7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics

7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics

The Lancet
We make the case that clear performance standards can improve the detection, reporting, and control of infectious disease outbreaks.