Developing digital contact tracing tailored to haulage in East Africa to support COVID-19 surveillance: a protocol.
COVID-19
anthropology
epidemiology
public health
Journal
BMJ open
ISSN: 2044-6055
Titre abrégé: BMJ Open
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101552874
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 09 2022
02 09 2022
Historique:
entrez:
23
1
2023
pubmed:
24
1
2023
medline:
26
1
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
At the peak of Uganda's first wave of SARS-CoV-2 in May 2020, one in three COVID-19 cases was linked to the haulage sector. This triggered a mandatory requirement for a negative PCR test result at all ports of entry and exit, resulting in significant delays as haulage drivers had to wait for 24-48 hours for results, which severely crippled the regional supply chain.To support public health and economic recovery, we aim to develop and test a mobile phone-based digital contact tracing (DCT) tool that both augments conventional contact tracing and also increases its speed and efficiency. To test the DCT tool, we will use a stratified sample of haulage driver journeys, stratified by route type (regional and local journeys).We will include at least 65% of the haulage driver journeys ~83 200 on the network through Uganda. This allows us to capture variations in user demographics and socioeconomic characteristics that could influence the use and adoption of the DCT tool. The developed DCT tool will include a mobile application and web interface to collate and intelligently process data, whose output will support decision-making, resource allocation and feed mathematical models that predict epidemic waves.The main expected result will be an open source-tested DCT tool tailored to haulage use in developing countries.This study will inform the safe deployment of DCT technologies needed for combatting pandemics in low-income countries. This work has received ethics approval from the School of Public Health Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics Committee at Makerere University and The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. This work will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, our websites https://project-thea.org/ and Github for the open source code https://github.com/project-thea/.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36691163
pii: bmjopen-2021-058457
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058457
pmc: PMC9441735
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e058457Subventions
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/V034952/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Department of Health
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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