Global Health Security Investments Improve Guinea Ebola Outbreak Response (Overview)

Ebola Response in 2014

Ebola Response in 2014

Ebola Response in 2014

Ebola Response in 2021

Ebola Response in 2021

Ebola Response in 2021

Laboratory

Laboratory

  • Limited in-country laboratory capacity for diagnostic testing
  • Results took about 7 days

Ebola Response in 2014

  • Limited in-country laboratory capacity for diagnostic testing
  • Results took about 7 days
  • Local laboratories capable of testing
  • Results take about 1 day

Ebola Response in 2021

  • Local laboratories capable of testing
  • Results take about 1 day

Workforce Development

Workforce Development

  • International experts and staff needed for response

Ebola Response in 2014

  • International experts and staff needed for response
  • Guinea has 179 disease detectives trained for outbreak response

Ebola Response in 2021

  • Guinea has 179 disease detectives trained for outbreak response

Surveillance

Surveillance

  • Four months to detect first case
  • Data collected in Excel

Ebola Response in 2014

  • Four months to detect first case
  • Data collected in Excel
  • 15 days to detect first case
  • All surveillance data collected by Ministry of Health in the country’s DHIS2 electronic platform technology

Ebola Response in 2021

  • 15 days to detect first case
  • All surveillance data collected by Ministry of Health in the country’s DHIS2 electronic platform technology

Emergency Operations

Emergency Operations

  • International partners managed improvised Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

Ebola Response in 2014

  • International partners managed improvised Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
  • National EOC network activated within 24 hours of an alert. EOC is centrally coordinated under Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSS)

Ebola Response in 2021

  • National EOC network activated within 24 hours of an alert. EOC is centrally coordinated under Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (ANSS)

Coordination

Coordination

  • Disjointed response

Ebola Response in 2014

  • Disjointed response
  • Unified response coordinated under ANSS leadership using modern technology

Ebola Response in 2021

  • Unified response coordinated under ANSS leadership using modern technology