Situation Report: Yellow fever outbreak in Angola, 29 July 2016
The objectives of the response during this phase are to maintain a strong surveillance and case finding system complete vaccination in strategic at- risk districts and continue vector control activities. This strategy will continue until at least one month without cases after the start of rains, expected in September
The Joint Technical Review Mission debriefed with IMS partners and Angola MoH. A final report is expected this week. IMs and partners conducted a meeting to incorporate preliminary recommendations to operational plans
The next vaccination phase targeting 3 million people in 18 districts is expected to start on August 10th.
The Ministry of Health released a circular letter through its National Institute of Public Health reminding of the need to o btain ethical approval for all research activity and data collection, and the interdiction of sharing data relative to the outbreak without previous authorization
MoH general coordination meetings have been suspended and will be held on specific occasions as needed. Technical meetings and sub-committee meetings will continue as usual