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Immunization Data Quality Improvement in Karamoja

A mother awaiting vaccination in Amudat District, Uganda during a DIT vaccination mentorship exercise in February 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Preparedness in Africa: The Role of African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs)
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation reports
Partnership Against 2019-nCoV in Africa
WHO Declares Novel Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
Cohort 2018 Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program Graduation Ceremony

Mirembe Bernadette Basuta(in yellow), graduate of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program being awared by Hon. Robinah Nabbanja - Minister of Health, Uganda
Cohort 2018 Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program Graduation Ceremony

Hon. Robinah Nabbanja - Minister of Health, Uganda addressing graduates of the Cohort 2018, Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program January 2020
DIT training and field deployment for Moroto region

Dr. Kevin Mugenyi - Epidemiologist – AFENET making a presentation on the DIT program during the training in Soroti District, Uganda.
Resolution of Non compliant household head by the LGA Non Compliance Resolution Team at an NSTOP supported Demand Generation site. (Courtesy of AFENET Nigeria)
Strengthening AFENET Regional Hubs
National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) field teams conduct Active Search for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in Kyenjojo district, Uganda.
National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) field teams conduct Active Search for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in Kyenjojo district, Uganda.
National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) field teams conduct Active Search for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in Kyenjojo district, Uganda.
Uganda Polio Surveillance Project: NSTOP field teams Conduct Active Search for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in Refuge hosting districts, Uganda
AFENET’s support in the mass Measles/Rubella-Polio Vaccination in Uganda
One on one interview with Dr Lazarus Kuonza – Program Director SAFELTP
AFENET residents, graduates and faculty were well represented at the TEPHINET Conference 28 October- 2 November 2019, under the leadership of the Ag. Executive Director- Dr. Simon Antara
DRC FETP ACoDD Team members conducting community surveillance and mapping to the Response to Ebola
DRC FETP ACoDD Team members conducting community surveillance and mapping to the Response to Ebola
ACoDD EVD teams making their way to hard-to-reach health centers in DRC

Immunization Data Quality Improvement in Karamoja

A team from the Ministry of Health, EPI partners and AFENET worked, with district data improvement teams (DITs) from Karamoja region to conduct a regional training, field deployment and support ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Preparedness in Africa: The Role of African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs)

On 7 January 2020, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus known as a novel coronavirus (nCoV) which has since been renamed Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus ...

Partnerships against 2019-nCov in Africa

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $20 million to help public health authorities in Africa and South Asia to strengthen their emergency operations centers, implement effective ...

Liberia FETP Frontline Cohort XI Workshop 2

Liberia FETP held the second workshop for frontline Cohort XI was held from January 27 to 31, 2020. The cohort comprises 19 trainees from diverse backgrounds: health facility surveillance persons, ...

Projects

Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity Academia for Controlling Health Threats

1. What is GIBACHT? GIBACHT stands for Global Partnership Initiated Academia for Controlling Health Threats. It is sponsored by the Federal Foreign...

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Background and scope of the M&E portfolio The Monitoring and Evaluation sub-unit was set up in August 2015 with the recruitment of the two staff...

RESEARCH UNIT

General scope, purpose and main assignments AFENET Research Unit supports the Grants Office in the function of resource mobilization and ensures that...

PAN AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL (PAMJ)

Background The Pan African Medical Journal (PAMJ) has been published in partnership with AFENET since 2008. During the last nine years, PAMJ has...

SCIENTIFIC WRITING

Background In March 2017, the AFENET board of directors made a resolution to strengthen scientific writing in member field epidemiology training...

DRC Measles and Rubella RDT Study

Project title: DRC Pilot study on a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) detection of measles and rubella infection and immunity Background This purpose of this...