Browsing by Author "Rweyemamu, Mark M."

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A socio-economic approach to one health policy research in Southern Africa
Lyamuya, Eligius; Rushton, Jonathan; Coker, Richard; Kock, Richard; Kayunze, Kim A.; Kiwara, Angwara D.; Kambarage, Dominic M.; Coker, Richard; Rweyemamu, Mark M.
A socio-economic approach to one health policy research in Southern Africa
(2012-06) Lyamuya, Eligius; Rushton, Jonathan; Coker, Richard; Kock, Richard; Kayunze, Kim A.; Kiwara, Angwara D.; Kambarage, Dominic M.; Coker, Richard; Rweyemamu, Mark M.
One-health approaches have started being applied to health systems in some countries in controlling infectious diseases in order to reduce the burden of disease in humans, livestock and wild animals collaboratively. However, one wonders whether the problem of lingering and emerging zoonoses is more affected by health policies, low application of one-health approaches, or other factors. As part of efforts to answer this question, the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) smart partnership of human health, animal health and socio-economic experts published, in April 2011, a conceptual framework to support One Health research for policy on emerging zoonoses. The main objective of this paper was to identify which factors really affect the burden of disease and how the burden could affect socio-economic well-being. Amongst other issues, the review of literature shows that the occurrence of infectious diseases in humans and animals is driven by many factors, the most important ones being the causative agents (viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.) and the mediator conditions (social, cultural, economic or climatic) which facilitate the infection to occur and hold. Literature also shows that in many countries there is little collaboration between medical and veterinary services despite the shared underlying science and the increasing infectious disease threat. In view of these findings, a research to inform health policy must walk on two legs: a natural sciences leg and a social sciences one
A spatial analysis of Rift Valley Fever Virus seropositivity in domestic ruminants in Tanzania
(PLOS ONE) Sindato, Calvin; Pfeiffer, Dirk U.; Karimuribo, Esron D.; Mboera, Leonard E.G.; Rweyemamu, Mark M.; Paweska, Janusz T.
Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of chikungunya, dengue, and zika in eight districts in Tanzania
(Elsevier Ltd) Mwanyika, Gaspary O.; Sindato, Calvin; Rugarabamu, Sima; Rumisha, Susan F.; Karimuribo, Esron D.; Misinzo, Gerald; Rweyemamu, Mark M.; Hamid, Muzamil M. Abdel; Haider, Najmul; Vairo, Francesco; Kock, Richard; Mboera, Leonard E.G.
Towards one health disease surveillance: the Southern African centre for infectious disease surveillance approach
Beda, Eric.; Karimuribo, Esron D.; Sayalel, Kuya; Short, Nick; Wambura, Philemon; Mboera, Leonard G.; Kusiluka, Lughano J. M.; Rweyemamu, Mark M.
Towards one health disease surveillance: the Southern African centre for infectious disease surveillance approach
(2012) Beda, Eric.; Karimuribo, Esron D.; Sayalel, Kuya; Short, Nick; Wambura, Philemon; Mboera, Leonard G.; Kusiluka, Lughano J. M.; Rweyemamu, Mark M.
Africa has the highest burden of infectious diseases in the world and yet the least capacity for its risk management. It has therefore become increasingly important to search for ‘fit-for- purpose’ approaches to infectious disease surveillance and thereby targeted disease control. The fact that the majority of human infectious diseases are originally of animal origin means we have to consider One Health (OH) approaches which require inter-sectoral collaboration for custom-made infectious disease surveillance in the endemic settings of Africa. A baseline survey was conducted to assess the current status and performance of human and animal health surveillance systems and subsequently a strategy towards OH surveillance system was developed. The strategy focused on assessing the combination of participatory epidemiological approaches and the deployment of mobile technologies to enhance the effectiveness of disease alerts and surveillance at the point of occurrence, which often lies in remote areas. We selected three study sites, namely the Ngorongoro, Kagera River basin and Zambezi River basin ecosystems. We have piloted and introduced the next-generation Android mobile phones running the EpiCollect application developed by Imperial College to aid geo-spatial and clinical data capture and transmission of this data from the field to the remote Information Technology (IT) servers at the research hubs for storage, analysis, feedback and reporting. We expect that the combination of participatory epidemiology and technology will significantly improve OH disease surveillance in southern Africa.