Partners In Health: Focus on Contact Tracing
Contact tracing is a simple concept that is vital to stopping the spread of deadly infectious diseases such as Ebola and drug-resistant tuberculosis. When a patient is diagnosed, community health workers will speak with the patient to learn who may have come into contact with him or her and been exposed. A community health worker will then travel to screen the family members, friends, or neighbors to make sure they’re not infected. If one of these contacts is presenting sympt