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Authors
Nanyondo, S. Judith
Nakato, Shillah
Franklin, Janelle
Kwiringira, Andrew
Malikisi, Marvin
Kesande, Maureen
Wailagala, Abdullah
Suubi, Rebecca
Byonanebye, Dathan M.
Katwesigye, Elizabeth
Katongole, Paul
Kasule, Juliet
Bayo, Louis B.
Kasendwa, Martin
Musisi, Diriisa
Hunter, Jennifer
Oakley, Lisa P.
Dennison, Cori
Ndegwa, Linus
Tompkins, Lindsay K.
Gupta, Neil
Bahatungire, Rony
Willet, Victoria
Kolwaite, Amy R.
Zalwango, Sarah
Bancroft, Elizabeth
Mearns, Stacey
Lamorde, Mohammed
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), United States (GH000045)
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Article History
Received: 13 September 2024
Accepted: 26 February 2025
First Online: 6 March 2025
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: Deployment of the public health emergency response strategy was approved by the Director General of Health Services as part of the Ebola Response plan. For the evaluation, aggregate data, devoid of unique identifiers, was used. The Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 () Sect. 7(d) permits data to be collected and processed without obtaining a written informed consent if the data is to be collected and processed for medical purposes. The data presented in this study was collected by Ministry of Health as part of Sudan Ebola outbreak response. The data published in this study complies with all other provisions in the Uganda Data Protection and Privacy Act. Furthermore, the clearance of this work as non-research was obtained from the US CDC under clearance number NCEZID-IICP-9/26/23-260a3. Additionally, given that this work fell under a public health emergency response and was not research, consent was not obtained from public health professionals or patients to implement the strategy.
: Not applicable since an analysis of secondary data was done.
: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
: Funding to support the response activities was received from US CDC.
