Report of a global meeting on yaws eradication surveillance, monitoring and evaluation Geneva, 29–30 January 2018

Overview

Objectives and expected outputs of the meeting

• To develop protocols for surveys and mapping:
  • confirming the presence of the disease in countries not currently reporting cases;
  • determining the extent of the disease and guiding mass drug administration (MDA) in countries currently reporting cases (or where mapping still confirms cases); and
  • verifying the interruption of transmission.
• To review recording and reporting forms for routine surveillance.
• To plan the implementation of mass treatment in endemic countries.

Eradication of yaws: a guide for programme managers should be used together with Eradication of yaws: procedures for verification and certification of interruption of transmission and Summary report of a consultation on the eradication of yaws, 5–7 March 2012, Morges, Switzerland.