What question did this study set out to answer?

To describe the epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and assess surveillance system performance against World Health Organization (WHO) targets to pinpoint operational gaps.

January 1, 2013Pan African Medical JournalOpen Access

Evaluating the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system in South Africa, 2005-2009: an analysis of secondary data

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Population

1501 children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis in South Africa between 2005 and 2009, 67.2% <5 years of age…

Design

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Follow-up

2005-2009

Authors

LKLandiwe Siphumelele KhuzwayoNational Health Laboratory Service LKLazarus KuonzaNational Health Laboratory Service NNNtombenhle NgcoboSouth African Medical Research Council

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Implication

Supports sustained AFP surveillance in South Africa; leaves open refinements in specimen transport and lab documentation.

Key Points

To describe the epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and assess surveillance system performance against World Health Organization (WHO) targets to pinpoint operational gaps.
Retrospective descriptive analysis of secondary national AFP surveillance data collected between 2005 and 2009 in South Africa.
Evaluated all pediatric AFP cases across demographic distributions and established WHO epidemiological and laboratory performance indicators.
Identified 1,501 reported AFP cases (67.2% aged <5 years, 54.3% male) with zero confirmed poliomyelitis cases and 10 (0.7%) polio-compatible cases.
National annualized non-polio AFP detection rate improved from 1.6 cases per 100,000 children under 15 years in 2005 to 2.1 per 100,000 in 2008–2009.
Two WHO indicators failed to meet targets: specimen transit within 72 hours was 51.5% in 2007, 55.3% in 2008, and 65.0% in 2009 (target ≥80%), and non-polio enterovirus isolation fell from 22.5% in 2006 to <1% in 2008 and 2009 (target ≥10%).

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Population

1501 children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in South Africa between 2005 and 2009, 67.2% <5 years of age, 54.3% male.

Outcome

Epidemiology of AFP and performance of the AFP surveillance system against WHO targets

The South African AFP surveillance system met most WHO performance standards between 2005 and 2009, though specimen transport times and laboratory documentation require improvement.

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Khuzwayo et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9070bfc63bb9fb07dd8f8d https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.14.86.2032

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Evaluating the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system in South Africa, 2005-2009: an analysis of secondary data

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