Elias Kwesi

Datos Biográficos

ID9800812
NOMBREElias Kwesi
NOMBRESElias
APELLIDOKwesi
FIRMAKWESI E
AFILIACIONESMinistry of Health and Social Welfare
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Tanzania’s first Marburg Viral Disease outbreak response

    Open AccessAlly Hussein, Rogath Kishimba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Outbreak presents a significant public health threat, requiring a timely, robust, and well-coordinated response. This paper aims to describe the roles of the Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (TFELTP) graduates and residents in responding to Tanzania’s first Marburg Viral Disease (MVD) outbreak. We performed a secondary data analysis using a range of documents, such as rosters of deployed respond…

  • The role of community pharmacies in early detection of suspected Covid-19 cases in 2020

    Open AccessHussein Mohamed, Diana Faini et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Tanzania reported its first COVID-19 case on 16 March 2020. We conducted event-based surveillance of COVID-19 suspect cases among pharmacy clients presenting with respiratory symptoms and influenza-like illness to increase early and rapid detection of COVID-19 cases and mitigate transmission. We conveniently sampled 103 pharmacies from Dar es Salaam, the epicentre for the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania at the time. Between 23 April 2020 and 18 May…