
The TIC were also used to disseminate correct information. Multisectoral approach was used to manage this rumours/misinformation including involvement of various stakeholders such as traditional, religious leaders, youth, security armed forces, etc. A system of collection of rumours and misinformation was put in place through social listening and processing information collected with daily review and analysis by the risk communication team as well as identification of the response. Despite the absence of a specific strategy to manage infodemy, this plan has a component on management of misinformation and

Hendrina Shikalepo, Ministry of Health, NamibiaĮxperience of Niger in the Management of misinformation in the response to covid-19 pandemic Overview of COVID-19 infodemic and health misinformation response in Namibia Moreviralthanthevirus, Youth Organization, México Unidad de Inteligencia Epidemiológica y Sanitaria, Ministry of Health, Mexico Santi Indra Astuti, Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia (MAFINDO), IndonesiaĬOVID-19 infodemic response overview for Mexico Infodemic management system: lessons learned from Indonesia
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System to verify the recommendations and to discuss how to use them in the COVID-19 response by engaging various THL public health and risk communication experts in discussions. Knowledge co-creation methodology based on using multisectorial expertise is applied to the monitoring The recommendations are used to inform the risk communication efforts of THL on a bi-weekly basis. Media posts and emails from the public to THL. It uses a conceptual framework of subjective perception of risk, reflecting individual, societal and cultural contexts. The system utilizes an anthropologicalĪpproach to explore the meanings of risk and the elements that steer the assessment of a risk situation. The process allows qualitative data collection and analysis in real time. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) initiated a practical monitoring system to analyze COVID-19 related risk perceptions of the public. Shannon Turner, Ian Roe, Lucie Bucci, Ron White, and Craig Thompson, Canadian Public Health AssociationĬOVID19 risk perception monitoring system in FinlandĪnna-Leena Lohiniva, Katja Sibenberg, Suvi Hyökki and Jussi Sane, Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare, Finland Solutions in response to health emergencies, hence the decline in attendance at health facilities and the use of other methods such as the traditional African pharmacopoeia.ĬOVID-19 infodemic response overview for Canada Need to prepare the actors of the management of public health emergencies, this in view of the number of infodemics more focused on the theme of operational coordination and political management of Covid-19. This study allowed us to observe that there is a real

Between March and September 2020, rumours and disinformation slackened further on ten themes related to operational coordinationĪnd political management of Covid-19, compliance with barrier measures, case management, the traditional African pharmacopoeia, the management of Covid-19 cases and the educational environment. We analyzed the flow of infodemic information transcribed and coded and chosen according to themesĬonveyed by the fourteen most prominent media during the first four operational periods of the response to the pandemic. Operations Coordination Center (PHEOCC) at the primary or secondary level, of which four hundred and thirty-nine (439) were classified as infodemic. Over 2,000 alerts were recorded during the same at the Public Health Emergency The management of Covid-19 in Cameroon has been marked by the proliferation of countless rumours, disinformation and manipulations relayed through the media known as the infodemic. Dr Noudji Simon, chef unité sensibilisation au Centre de Coordination des Operations des Urgences de Santé Publiques (CCOUP), Ministère de la Santé Publique du Cameroun.Mme NGO ITEM Madeleine, ESSTIC, Yaoundé Cameroun.Stakes of messages linked to the infodemic broadcast in the media during the first six months of COVID-19 epidemic response in Cameroon

Muriel Konne, Atsu Ishizumi, Dimitri Prybylski, and Elisabeth Wilhelm, US CDC Global Immunization Division Brief analysis of a WHO survey of COVID-19 factcheckers
