4th GTFCC Working Group on Case Management Meeting

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.

Objectives of the meeting

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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