The framework provides conceptual and analytical guidelines for the evaluation of health systems and infectious disease control programs and echoes the national responsibilities required by IHR 2005 [ 24].
On a broader level, it offers insights that may be applicable to other national infectious disease control programs, in terms of the perceived gaps in research training, need for a more multidisciplinary approach, and consideration of contextual factors.
In very poor countries where dengue is prevalent, the limited capacity of infectious disease control programs and public health, water and sanitation services, crowded and poor quality housing, and the poor maintenance of public space, contribute to an ideal ecology for the vector to breed and larvae to survive.
He has over 25 years worth of experience in the vector control program of Ecuador and currently teaches as a Infectious Diseases professor at Universidad Estatal de Guayaquil, Facultad de Medicina.
A poorly implemented TB control program can potentially prolong the time a patient is infectious resulting in greater transmission of TB.
In accordance with recommendations [ 29], each has an active infection control program, composed of a physician trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and an infection control nurse.
For a newly arising viral infectious disease it may be possible to contain an outbreak at an early stage by means of a large-scale antiviral control program if the control program is started early and has high compliance rates, if the efficacy of antiviral drugs is sufficiently high, and if the transmissibility of the pathogen is sufficiently low [6] [8].
National AIDS control program.
As a part of novel imitative to provide IC program to a 50 bed rural community hospital, infectious disease physician from the urban hospital visited the hospital periodically & through tele-conferences assessed baseline status & implemented the infection control program.
For resurgent infectious diseases and microbes classified as agents of biological terrorism, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the health care community should have an infection control plan as a part of an overall control program (39 ).
