4th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Case Management

Summary

The Ending Cholera: A Global Roadmap to 2030 launched in October 2017 was the first step in operationalizing the new global strategy for cholera control. It sets out a path toward a world in which cholera is no longer a threat to public health, targeting a 90% reduction in cholera deaths and elimination of cholera in 20 countries by 2030.

Initial results of implementing the Global Roadmap can already be seen, with dramatic reduction of burden in countries such as South Sudan and Nigeria. We have also seen rapid containment of outbreaks in places such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique that previously would have risked becoming protracted and difficult to control.

However, in some countries, case fatality rates are still unacceptably high – up to 6.2% – at a time when both preventive actions and curative treatments exist and should be widely available. The GTFCC Case Management Working Group will address this issue at its annual meeting.

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Objectives

At its fourth meeting, the case management working group will define its role and strategies to achieve a 90% reduction in cholera deaths by 2030.

Specifically, the objectives of the meeting are to:

Look at the evolution of cholera mortality over time and identify risk factors;
Critically review the strategies and tools available to treat patients in health facilities and at community level to identify key bottlenecks and best practices;
Review the evidence and identify new tools and strategies and if appropriate, subjects for advocacy that can contribute to reducing cholera mortality;
Based on the above, identify a research agenda for the case management working group, including specific research questions.

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Objectives

Resources

Day 1 - Tuesday, November 5

Day 2 - Wednesday, November 6

Session 1: Update from the GTFCC

Update from the GTFCC Secretariat

Update from the Chair of the Working Group

Focus on the Cholera situation in the South East Asia Region

Session 2: Review of cholera mortality

PNECHOL-MD (DR Congo)

Ministry of Health (Cameroon)

Ministry of Health (Somalia)

Session 3: Reducing mortality using existing tools

Panel 1: Case-area targeted interventions

Panel 1: Community engagement during outbreaks

Panel 1: Community case management model

Panel 2: Experience from Bangladesh

Panel 2: Experience from Africa

Panel 2: Experience from Yemen

Session 4: New tools or renewed strategies to reduce mortality

Panel 1: Regional situation on childhood diarrhoea

Panel 1: Access to health care in communities - rural setting

Panel 1: Access to health care in communities - urban setting

Panel 2: AMR in the context of cholera

Panel 2: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) global overview & National Action Plans, WHO SEARO

Panel 2: Example of targeted prophylaxis

Session 5 - Moving forward: defining the strategies of the WG to achieve 90% reduction in cholera mortality

16:00 - 17:30

Session 7: Ongoing research

Infection prevention and control

Gastroenteritis aggressive versus slow treatment for rehydration

Cholera and Severe Acute Malnutrition

Case fatality during cholera outbreaks in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) higher in adults and in non hotspot zone

Estimating cholera incidence in Bangladesh

Introduction to the Global Research Agenda for Cholera

Session 9: Agenda of work

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4th Meeting of the GTFCC Working Group on Case Management

Summary

Objectives

Resources

Day 1 - Tuesday, November 5

Day 2 - Wednesday, November 6

Session 1: Update from the GTFCC

Update from the GTFCC Secretariat

Update from the Chair of the Working Group

Focus on the Cholera situation in the South East Asia Region

Session 2: Review of cholera mortality

PNECHOL-MD (DR Congo)

Ministry of Health (Cameroon)

Ministry of Health (Somalia)

Session 3: Reducing mortality using existing tools

Panel 1: Case-area targeted interventions

Panel 1: Community engagement during outbreaks

Panel 1: Community case management model

Panel 2: Experience from Bangladesh

Panel 2: Experience from Africa

Panel 2: Experience from Yemen

Session 4: New tools or renewed strategies to reduce mortality

Panel 1: Regional situation on childhood diarrhoea

Panel 1: Access to health care in communities - rural setting

Panel 1: Access to health care in communities - urban setting

Panel 2: AMR in the context of cholera

Panel 2: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) global overview & National Action Plans, WHO SEARO

Panel 2: Example of targeted prophylaxis

Session 5 - Moving forward: defining the strategies of the WG to achieve 90% reduction in cholera mortality

16:00 - 17:30

Session 7: Ongoing research

Infection prevention and control

Gastroenteritis aggressive versus slow treatment for rehydration

Cholera and Severe Acute Malnutrition

Case fatality during cholera outbreaks in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) higher in adults and in non hotspot zone

Estimating cholera incidence in Bangladesh

Introduction to the Global Research Agenda for Cholera

Session 9: Agenda of work

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