Conference Abstract | Volume 8, Abstract ELIC2025338 (Poster 079) | Published: 04 Aug 2025
Inigbehe Babatunde Oyinloye1,&, Paul Olaiya Abiodun2
1World Health Organization, United Nations House, Abuja, Nigeria, 2Paul Olaiya Abiodun, Texila American University, USA
&Corresponding author: Inigbehe Babatunde Oyinloye, World Health Organization, Abuja, Nigeria, Email: inimaudo@gmail.com
Received: 31 May 2025, Accepted: 09 Jul 2025, Published: 04 Aug 2025
Domain: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Keywords: Lassa fever, attitude, sensitization, infection, PPE, Endemic, Prevention
©Inigbehe Babatunde Oyinloye et al. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health (ISSN: 2664-2824). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Inigbehe Babatunde Oyinloye et al., Exploring the factors affecting the uptake of standard practices for Lassa fever prevention in Nigeria: A case study of endemic states in West Africa. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health. 2025;8(ConfProc5):00223. https://doi.org/10.37432/JIEPH-CONFPRO5-00223
This had two phases: observation and desk review of other related data from study communities. Situation reports (SiTrep) reports were reviewed in these communities’ health facilities from Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2012 to 2022 and analyzed. Samples from 300 respondents were assessed with a male: female ratio of about 1.3:1 and a mean age of 35.01±10.721 years.
Our findings showed there is high sensitization for LF and high media involvement. However, there is often late presentation of LF cases to healthcare facilities. The Healthcare workers (HCWs) do not give optimum awareness creation to the host communities (52.0%). Our findings showed that Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) use was seen as key in preventing LF amongst HCWs; however, the availability of PPE is still not enough.
Attitudinal change and adoption of practices that will promote the prevention of LF are therefore advocated. Such practices include: provision and effective use of PPE, early presentation of LF cases, improved LF surveillance, and continuous training of HCWs. These practices will improve the uptake of control strategies for LF.
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