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 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.
SACIDS at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. mark.rweyemamu@btinternet.com
Mark M
MM
Rweyemamu
Peter
P
Mmbuji
Esron
E
Karimuribo
Janusz
J
Paweska
Dominic
D
Kambarage
Luis
L
Neves
Jean-Marie
JM
Kayembe
Aaron
A
Mweene
Mecky
M
Matee
D057191:Capacity Building; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D007391:International Cooperation; D009938:Organizations; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012106:Research; D013019:South Africa
CORDS; One Health; SACIDS; SADC; mobile ICT; wildlife-livestock-human interaction