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Adopting World Health Organization Multimodal Infection Prevention and Control Strategies to Respond to COVID-19, Kenya
Emerging Infectious Diseases ( IF 11.8 ) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 , DOI: 10.3201/eid2813.212617
Daniel Kimani , Linus Ndegwa , Mercy Njeru , Eveline Wesangula , Frankline Mboya , Catherine Macharia , Julius Oliech , Herman Weyenga , George Owiso , Kamau Irungu , Ulzii-Orshikh Luvsansharav , Amy Herman-Roloff

The World Health Organization advocates a multimodal approach to improving infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, which Kenya adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kenya Ministry of Health formed a national IPC committee for policy and technical leadership, coordination, communication, and training. During March–November 2020, a total of 69,892 of 121,500 (57.5%) healthcare workers were trained on IPC. Facility readiness assessments were conducted in 777 health facilities using a standard tool assessing 16 domains. A mean score was calculated for each domain across all facilities. Only 3 domains met the minimum threshold of 80%. The Ministry of Health maintained a national list of all laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections. By December 2020, a total of 3,039 healthcare workers were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2–positive, an infection rate (56/100,000 workers) 12 times higher than in the general population. Facility assessments and healthcare workers' infection data provided information to guide IPC improvements.

更新日期:2022-08-17
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