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Disease Detectives Network for a Healthier Africa | Réseau de détecteurs de maladies pour l’Afrique plus saine

COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge seeks entries
FETP 40th Anniversary: Dr Antara shares his reflections on the program
Updates from the field Vol. 5
CDC BOOSTS AFENET COVID-19 LABORATORY WORK

Capacity Development: AFENET team led by Mr. Davis Ashaba during support supervision in a laboratory in Angola
1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa
Champions of the Ebola response in DR Congo
Dr. Endie Waziri – Crossing a river in Nigeria to vaccinate children against polio
Nigeria conducts state trainings on infection control; AFENET offers technical support
Call For Papers
End of the 10th Ebola outbreak in DRC: An FETP milestone
AFENET surveillance teams monitoring the spraying of truck driver before entering Uganda at Mutukula(Uganda - Tanzania) Border
COVID-19 Surveillance at Lyolwa Health Center III in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda
Podcast: Dr. Issa Makumbi, the Director of Uganda's Public Health Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Integrated Surveillance for COVID-19 and Polio

Dr. Ivan Nshabire- Epidemiologist MOH and Mr. Omitta Patrick- Surveillance Officer Tororo District reviewing registers at Iyolwa Health Facility during an intergrated COVID-19 and AFP surveillance activity.
ACTIONS TO CONSIDER: FROM HOME TO THE WORKPLACE
AFENET, CRDF Global form partnership to strengthen Global Health in Africa
AFENET’s support to laboratory capacity strengthening during COVID-19

Public Health surveillance officers dressed in full PPEs taking samples from health workers at the frontline of the COVID-19
Interview: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Dr Kayita Godfrey, an epidemiologist with AFENET was being tested at Makindye Division among other health workers from the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on 27 April 2020.
The safety of frontline health workers is critical to the fight against the Corona virus pandemic. Uganda is among other countries that is prioritizing the testing of health workers and surveillance officers involved in the response.

COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge seeks entries

Do you have a solution that can maximize symptom data to enable earlier detection & improved situational awareness using the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Joint Program ...

Champions of the DR Congo Ebola Response - Part 4

Fabrice and Jacques share their field experiences In this penultimate part of this series, we bring you the pair of Sewolo Matondo Fabrice Muzinga Wa Muzinga Jacques who are also beneficiaries of ...

FETP 40th Anniversary: Dr Antara shares his reflections on the program

40 years ago, the US Centers for Disease Control helped establish Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) throughout the world, with now over 18,000 trained disease detectives in over 80 ...

Updates from Nigeria

COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Training For Tertiary, Secondary, and Primary Health Facilities In Kebbi State, Nigeria. As Nigeria moved deeper into community transmission and with the ...

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...