Largest-ever global deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests for better disease control

Apr 10 2024The World Health Organization The arrival of rapid diagnostic test kits for cholera in Malawi today signals the start of a global programme that will see more than 1.2 million tests distributed to 14 countries at high risk for cholera over the next several months. Countries that will receive kits in the coming weeks in this largest-ever global deployment include those currently severely impacted by cholera outbreaks, such as Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, and Zambia.

Through this effort, rapid diagnostic tests from two manufacturers – that have to-date been supplied via WHO and UNICEF for use in outbreak response – will now be used routinely for cholera surveillance.

In 2021, the Gavi Board approved US$ 55 million in funding to support a diagnostics programme between 2022 and- 2025 across cholera, yellow fever, measles, rubella, meningococcal meningitis and typhoid – with the aim to improve disease surveillance, outbreak detection and response and the design of preventive programmes.

To be effective, these multisectoral strategies for the control of cholera must be guided by timely and reliable cholera surveillance data. Surveillance not only supports the early detection of and quick response to an outbreak, but also plays a central role in providing stakeholders in other cholera prevention and control pillars with the data they need to target, design, implement, and evaluate interventions.

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