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Volume 8 J Community Med Health Educ, an open access journal
ISSN: 2161-0711 Public Health 2018
February 26-28, 2018
PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION
3rd World Congress on
February 26-28, 2018 London, UK
PERFORMANCE OFACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN ZAMBIA:
2000 TO 2009- ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY DATA
Rufaro Murebwa Chiramboa , Kumar Sridutt Baboob and Seter Siziyac
aWorld Health Organization, Lusaka, Zambia
bUniversity of Zambia, Zambia
cCopperbelt University, Zambia
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance was adopted by World Health Organization (WHO) following the World Health
Assembly (WHA) Resolutions inMay 1988, tomonitor progress towards poliomyelitis eradication in all member countries.
It was introduced in Zambia in 1993. Since then, health workers collect AFP surveillance data however; there is no documented
evidence of the review of the performance of the system and epidemiological analysis of the data. The purpose of this study
was to review performance of the AFP surveillance system between 2000 and 2009, discuss the epidemiological distribution
of cases tested at the national polio laboratory in the period under review and identify components in the AFP surveillance
system that require strengthening. A retrospective descriptive analysis was conducted on secondary AFP surveillance data
for the period 2000-2009, consisting of all children aged <15years and performance evaluated using WHO-specified core
AFP global surveillance indicators. During this period, a total of 1,452 cases were investigated. Completeness of data from
case-based forms was very inadequate. The non-polio AFP rate ranged from 1.8 -3.3/100,000 and stool adequacy from 65%
- 96%. There was low Non-Polio Entero virus (NPENT) rate. The aim of the presentation is to show performance of the
AFP surveillance system and to describe the epidemiological patterns. A high level of surveillance performance was achieved
during this period, though there were a lot of gaps in the national AFP surveillance data base.Improvement in the identified
gaps could achieve optimal standards recommended by WHO and provide a good model for poliomyelitis eradication.M
Biography
Rufaro Murebwa Chirambo graduated from the University of Zambia, School of Medicine with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, then did Masters in Public and
consequently a PhD in Public Health at the same University and she has been working at WHO in the Disease Prevention and Control unit, as well as an
International Consultant and Technical Advisor. She is also a part time Lecturer at the Copperbelt University, School of Medicine. Rufaro has her expertise in
disease surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases, monitoring and evaluation, as well as immunizations.
Rufaro Murebwa Chirambo et al., J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Vol 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C1-032