Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Dec;28(13):S105-S113. doi: 10.3201/eid2813.220848.
The COVID-19 pandemic spread between neighboring countries through land, water, and air travel. Since May 2020, ministries of health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda have sought to clarify population movement patterns to improve their disease surveillance and pandemic response efforts. Ministry of Health-led teams completed focus group discussions with participatory mapping using country-adapted Population Connectivity Across Borders toolkits. They analyzed the qualitative and spatial data to prioritize locations for enhanced COVID-19 surveillance, community outreach, and cross-border collaboration. Each country employed varying toolkit strategies, but all countries applied the results to adapt their national and binational communicable disease response strategies during the pandemic, although the Democratic Republic of the Congo used only the raw data rather than generating datasets and digitized products. This 3-country comparison highlights how governments create preparedness and response strategies adapted to their unique sociocultural and cross-border dynamics to strengthen global health security.
新冠疫情通过陆地、水和空中旅行在邻国之间传播。自 2020 年 5 月以来，刚果民主共和国、坦桑尼亚和乌干达三国卫生部一直寻求厘清人口流动模式，以加强疾病监测和大流行应对工作。卫生部牵头的团队使用经过国家调整的跨境人口连通性工具包，完成了带有参与式绘图的焦点小组讨论。他们分析了定性和空间数据，为加强新冠疫情监测、社区外展和跨境合作确定重点地点。每个国家都采用了不同的工具包策略，但所有国家都将结果应用于调整本国和两国间的传染病应对策略，以应对大流行，尽管刚果民主共和国仅使用了原始数据，而没有生成数据集和数字化产品。这项三国比较突出了各国政府如何制定适应其独特社会文化和跨境动态的备灾和应对战略，以加强全球卫生安全。
