Dear reader,
The Editorial Committee welcomes you to Volume 4, Number 1 & 2 of the
Techno Health Surveillance.In this issue, we share the following:
- Initiatives to strengthen event-based surveillance in the communities of cross-border ecosystems
- Exchange visit to share experiences on use of digital technology in disease surveillance
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Every day we hear about health challenges at the human-animal-environment interface. Zoonotic diseases such as avian influenza, rabies, Ebola, and Rift Valley fever continue to have major impacts on health, livelihoods, and economies. These health threats cannot be effectively addressed by one sector alone. Multidisciplinary and multisectoral collaboration is needed to tackle t...
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Dr Leonard E.G. Mboera discusses the importance of studying emerging and vector-borne diseases at The Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, including challenges to address in this vein.
Statistics indicate that infectious diseases are the second cause of illness and death in the world and the first in developing countries. They are responsible f...
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The SACIDS Foundation for One Health is a One Health partnership of medical and veterinary institutions, that was founded in 2008 by universities and national research institutions in 5 Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It has since evolved from a consortium to a research and training Foundation and expanded its relevance to sub-Saharan A...
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