introduction A Malaria surveillance system comprises the people, procedures ,tools and structures necessary to generate information on malaria cases and death.
Definition “ Surveillance as an intervention encompasses tracking of disease (malaria)and programmatic response to data received.” -WHO GTS -Malaria
UPDATES OF Past GUIDANCE surveillance of antimalarial drug efficacy and drug resistance. routine and focus linked entomological surveillance. early warning and detection of epidemics monitoring and evaluation of national malaria programs.
PRINCICIPLES OF THE DESIGN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF MALARIA SURVEILLANCE
ESTABLISHING MALARIA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Cont……. Requirement and processes People centered surveillance Recording Reporting
Cont…. Data analysis and interpretation Using data for making decisions in Malaria control programs. Structure of surveillance system
Cont ….. Surveillance during prevention of reestablishment Certification of elimination
CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OF MALARIA SURVELLANCE
cont Case definitions Case detection Case classification Focus classification
Case detection Passive case detection (PCD) is detection of malaria cases among people who go to a health facility or a CHW on their own initiative to get treatment, usually for fever.
Cont … Active case detection (ACD) is detection by health workers of malaria cases in the community and in households. ACD can be conducted as fever screening followed by parasitological examination of all febrile patients or as direct parasitological examination of the target population .