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cord-272991-opvs2ejd	Masiira, Ben	Building a new platform to support public health emergency response in Africa: the AFENET Corps of Disease Detectives, 2018–2019	2020-10-13		.txt	text/plain	3495	201	52	Since 2018, AFENET has deployed the ACoDD to support response to several PHEs. The main challenges faced during ACoDD deployments were financing of operations, ACoDD safety and security, resistance to interventions and distrust of the responders by some communities. 6 However, data at the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) show that the sub-Saharan region Summary box ► Innovative strategies can be applied to leverage the inadequate public health workforce to address public health challenges including emergencies. The ninth Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May-July 2018 Soon after ACoDD was launched, AFENET received a request from the DRC Ministry of Health to support the response to the EVD outbreak in Équateur Province. Between 10 May and 24 July 2018, AFENET, in collaboration with the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deployed a team of 84 ACoDD members to support the national RRT contributing a total of 2590 person-days of deployment.	./cache/cord-272991-opvs2ejd.txt	./txt/cord-272991-opvs2ejd.txt