Vertical disease programs and their effect on integrated disease surveillance and response: perspectives of epidemiologists and surveillance officers in Nigeria

Table 6 Recommendations on how to improve the IDSR program by the respondents (n = 14)

Broad area	Instances
Health information management	Quarterly functional disease data consultative fora
	Provision of surveillance data tools
	One health (human and zoonotic) disease data capturing
	Harmonize all reporting forms and channels of reporting
Program governance, processes and structure	All disease programs must be mandated to report through and be collapsed into IDSR
Program governance, processes and structure	High level advocacy
Donor funding and influence	Development partners should not undermine one program for another
Funding	Basket funding
Funding	Improved funding and equipping of IDSR desk officers are the way vertical disease program managers are funded and equipped,
Human resources	Capacity building and incentives to surveillance personnel
	Increased collaboration between epidemiologists and vertical program officers
	Supportive supervision for IDSR personnel

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