Kenya’s response to its first confirmed imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease is raising an important question for the health system: how prepared are the facilities and healthcare workers expected to respond if additional cases emerge?
WHO’s 12th October update describes supplies worth around USD 70,000 and a larger contact-follow-up operation. Delivery to frontline teams is the next implementation question.
A confirmed imported Bundibugyo case changed Kenya’s response. The evidence needs to distinguish the patient, contact follow-up and any subsequent transmission.
County facilities face an October contracting deadline. The important operational question is whether the paperwork, payment route and care pathway line up.
From the abstract: “Using the Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) framework, this study examined the engagement of women informal food vendors and the disparities in COVID-19 control policies.”
From the abstract: “We conducted a mixed-methods study among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in two tertiary hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya—a public facility (Kenyatta National Hospital) and a private facility (Aga Khan University Hospital).”
From the abstract: “This study aims to map cultural scripts of trauma suffering and to develop and validate the Cultural Scripts of Trauma Inventory (CSTI) across Eastern African countries, including Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.”
From the abstract: “This study’s objective was to identify sepsis clusters using signs of possible Serious Bacterial Infection (pSBI) readily available at the time of admission, and to assess the clusters performance in predicting mortality.”
From the abstract: “Eighteen program staff and healthcare workers from three facilities in western Kenya participated in in-depth interviews.”
From the abstract: “The study aimed to determine the association between maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations (nmol/L) in pregnancy and the risk of preeclampsia in a Kenyan population.”