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Notice to Readers: SurvCost: Tool for Estimating Cost of
Surveillance Systems
Since 1998, CDC, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has been
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design, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response systems.
The purpose of this strategy is to develop surveillance and response capacities in African countries to
improve timely detection, confirmation, and response to infectious diseases of concern to African communities.
To help national surveillance programs estimate the costs of initiating and operating an integrated surveillance
system, CDC collaborated with WHO/AFRO to develop a spreadsheet-based tool, SurvCost, to estimate the costs of
supporting a surveillance program. SurvCost leads users through a series of guided prompts that require entry of actual
program costs in categories such as personnel, laboratory, office, capital equipment, transportation, and treatment. Users
can analyze costs by health facility, surveillance activity, or disease. Such data can help disease surveillance system
managers plan their budgets and advocate for additional resources to improve such systems. SurvCost is available at
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