United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nigeria; United Nations Building, Central Area. Abuja, Nigeria.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2020 Jun;24(s1):27-31. doi: 10.29063/ajrh2020/v24i2s.4.
Contact tracing is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent onward transmission. It is an essential public health tool and a crucial component to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic response in Lagos State, Nigeria. This contact tracing exercise is the largest one to be conducted in the megacity and is leveraging on the expertise of professionals across different strata of the health care system. Following the confirmation of a positive case of COVID-19; the State's contact tracing team commenced investigations by identifying contacts and following them up daily for 14 days from the last point of exposure. In the process of conducting this large-scale exercise, several lessons that can improve contact tracing outcomes such as the need for community mobilizers and decentralization, the importance of technology and communication campaigns were learnt and can serve as good practice for other implementers.
接触者追踪是指识别、评估和管理接触过疾病的人员，以防止疾病进一步传播的过程。在尼日利亚拉各斯州，接触者追踪是一项基本的公共卫生工具，也是持续应对 COVID-19 大流行的关键组成部分。此次接触者追踪工作是在大都市进行的规模最大的一次，利用了医疗保健系统各个层面专业人员的专业知识。在确认 COVID-19 阳性病例后，该州的接触者追踪小组通过识别接触者并从最后一次接触开始对其进行为期 14 天的每日跟踪，开始进行调查。在进行这项大规模工作的过程中，接触者追踪小组汲取了一些经验教训，这些经验教训可以改善接触者追踪的结果，例如需要社区动员人员和权力下放、技术和宣传活动的重要性等，这些经验教训可以为其他执行者提供良好的实践经验。
