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Table 1 Diseases under surveillance, cases and deaths reported in weekly reports and alerts during the 15-week pilot period, Mambéré Kadéi district 2016

From: SMS-based smartphone application for disease surveillance has doubled completeness and timeliness in a limited-resource setting – evaluation of a 15-week pilot program in Central African Republic (CAR)

Diseases (alphabetical order)

Weekly Reports

Alerts

Cases

Deaths

Cases

Deaths

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Acute Flaccid Paralysis

5

0.1%

0

0

2

7.7%

0

0

Adverse Events Following Immunization

50

1.5%

0

0

1

3.6%

0

0

Bacillary Dysentery

66

1.9%

0

0

Cholera

0

0

0

0

Chronic Malnutrition

29

0.9%

0

0

Diphtheria

1

< 0.1%

0

0

Dracunculiasis

0

0

0

0

Hemorrhagic Fever

0

0

0

0

Influenza

215

6.3%

1

1.6%

Malnutrition

8

31%

0

0

Maternal Mortality

21

33.3%

2

50%

Maternal/Neonatal Tetanus (MNT)

21

0.6%

9

14.3%

6

23%

2

50%

Measles

25

0.7%

0

0

2

7.7%

0

0

Meningococcal Meningitis

78

2.3%

5

7.9%

4

15.4%

0

0

Moderate Acute Malnutrition

855

25.1%

0

0

Rabies

12

0.4%

1

1.6%

3

11.5%

0

0

Severe Acute Malnutrition

1018

29.9%

13

20.6%

Severe Acute Respiratory Infection

567

16.7%

12

19%

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Typhoid Fever

448

13.2%

1

1.6%

Whooping Cough

10

0.3%

0

0

Yellow Fever

3

0.1%

0

0

TOTAL

3403

100%

63

100%

26

100%

4

100%

  1. *A total of 271 Weekly Reports and 15 Alerts were received during the 15-week pilot period.The sign’ –‘indicates that no data was reported for this condition, whereas the value ‘0′ indicates there were no reported cases of this condition, in compliance with the zero reporting policy of WHO