Ernest Tambo
1Africa Disease Intelligence and Surveillance, Communication and Response (Africa DISCoR) Institute, Cameroon
Title: The price of evidence-decision policy-tailored NTDs insurance in NTDs risk surveillance and epidemic public health burden management actions in sub-Saharan Africa
Biography
Biography: Ernest Tambo
Abstract
There is dearth of on evidence policy translation and actions on NTDs risk surveillance and emerging epidemic public health emergency management that pose significant economic concern. Yet the positive value robust and sustainable NTDs surveillance and response systems coupled with advantages of mobile health and digital applications in improving care service deliver quality and access, promoting patient-provider dialogue and mutual learning data and information sharing remain untapped in the continent. While, the persistence of NTDs and other emerging invasive infectious diseases of poverty public health needs and economic burden continues to ravage high risk and vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa. The price of assessing NTDs risk management and epidemic public health outweighs and underscores the risk of neglect and immense price of assessing NTDs risk management and epidemic public health benefits. The paper analyses practical and effective policy-tailored NTDs insurance approaches and strategies implications and challenges to provide coverage for specific expenses, geographies, types of disease and times. Furthermore, in delivering evidence-based decisions-making policy, actions plans on NTDs threat and epidemics prevention, emergency response and control/containment interventions benefits of such protection and ensuring that exposures are appropriately NTDs, early detection, delivery prevention and management care services in urban remote settings against potential losses in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide.