WHO/ Working Paper 1.2
Sponsors: Burkina Faso, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria
Surveillance Collaboration
Alarmed by the rapid spread of disease through Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as the issue of porous borders and migration containment,
Calls for a collaborated surveillance effort with the African region and the international community to prevent disease spread.
1. Recruit military and paramilitary forces to aid in detection, quarantine, and health resource distribution efforts.
2. Accept Kenya’s proposal for a centralized disease surveillance system in Nairobi, with active international communication.
3. Establish healthcare units at the borders to better facilitate distribution of healthcare services to vulnerable populations (refugee, rural, and those that are difficult to track).
4. Establish centralized disease surveillance systems within individual West African nations that would in turn report to the centralized system in Nairobi.
5. West Africa will be sending a consolidated appeal to the EU, World Vision, Save the Children, Red Cross, the USA and Canada for financial and human resource aid, including access to medication, health workers and training.
6. West Africa would be looking to control border migration by screening travelers entering and leaving West African nations, and possible selective closure of borders from nations viewed as high-risk.
7. West Africa would be willing to provide human resource aid to other African nations currently managing disease outbreaks, in exchange for ongoing advice and personnel training regarding effective containment methods that are proving most successful in those nations.