Background
The regional Pacific Hospital-based Active Surveillance (HBAS) system was established in 1997 by WHO under the PPHSN framework as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The platform has played an integrated vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance, and the conditions of “suspected measles” and neonatal tetanus (NT) were included from the start. In 2001, surveillance was expanded from “Suspected Measles” to Acute Fever and Rash (AFR) to better identify cases of measles and other diseases like rubella. The HBAS system has since grown to incorporate more than 80 hospitals in 20 Pacific Island countries and areas and over 300 pediatric clinicians and medical officers.
HBAS includes surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), acute fever and rash (AFR), neonatal tetanus (NT), and other priority Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPDs).
Surveillance Manual
→ Pacific HBAS System Information Folder (word, 1.2 MB)
Case Investigation Forms
→ AFP Case Investigation Form – Annex B1 (pdf, 146 KB)
→ AFR MR Case Investigation Form – Annex B2 (pdf, 66 KB)
→ NT Case Investigation Form – Annex B3 (pdf,122 KB)
AFP Retrospective Record Review Protocol
→ AFP Retrospective Record Review Protocol – Annex G (word, 100 KB)
Monthly Reporting Form
→ Pacific HBAS System Monthly Reporting Form – Annex A (Word, 43 KB)
Laboratory Request Forms
→ AFP Laboratory Request Form – Annex C1 (Word, 23 KB)
→ AFP Sample Customs Declaration Letter – Annex E1 (Word, 33 KB)
→ AFR Laboratory Request Form – Annex C2 (Word, 56 KB)
→ AFR Sample Customs Declaration Letter – Annex E2 (Word, 33 KB)
→ Specimen Packaging Shipping Instructions – Annex D (Word, 232 KB)
Contact details
→ WHO and PPHSN Contact Details – Annex F1 (Word, 59 KB)
→ Laboratory Contact Details – Annex F2 (Word, 21 KB)