The Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance: A One Health Consortium

Formed in 2008, the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) is a One Health consortium of academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals. Operating in partnership with world-renowned centres of research in industrialised countr...

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Published in:Emerging health threats journal 2013, Vol.6 (1), p.19958
Main Authors: M. Rweyemamu, Mark, Mmbuji, Peter, Karimuribo, Esron, Paweska, Janusz, Kambarage, Dominic, Neves, Luis, Kayembe, Jean-Marie, Mweene, Aaron, Matee, Mecky
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy & physiology
Animals
Capacity Building
Colleges & universities
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
CORDS
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Ecosystems
Epidemiology
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Health surveillance
Infectious diseases
International Cooperation
Medical laboratories
mobile ICT
One Health
Organizations
Population Surveillance
Public health
SACIDS
SADC
Science
South Africa
Supplement 1, 2013
Veterinary medicine
wildlife-livestock-human interaction
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Summary:Formed in 2008, the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) is a One Health consortium of academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals. Operating in partnership with world-renowned centres of research in industrialised countries, its mission is to harness innovations in science and technology for improving southern Africa's capacity to detect, identify, monitor (DIM) and manage the risk posed by infectious diseases of humans, animals, and ecosystems. The consortium's major capacity development activities include a series of One Health-based Master of Science (MSc) courses and a five-year DIM-driven research program. Additionally, SACIDS organized Africa's first One Health conference, in July 2011. This paper describes these and other major activities that SACIDS has undertaken to improve infectious disease surveillance across southern Africa. The paper also describes the role and collaboration of SACIDS with other national, regional and international consortia/networks that share a vision and interest in promoting novel approaches to infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response.
ISSN:1752-8550
2001-1350
1752-8550
DOI:10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.19958