Graduates and residents of the Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (TFELTP) have been instrumental in providing health education to the public as well as schools, to raise ...
Senegal recorded the first imported cases of COVID-19 infection on March 2, 2020. The outbreak has since spread to 33 districts. As of May 3, 2020, Senegal recorded 1,182 confirmed cases ...
Rwanda confirmed its first imported case on March 14, 2020 and developed case-definitions, laboratory tests, and enhanced surveillance to detect affected individuals with COVID-19 early, to enable ...
National Training of Trainers on PHC Workers Guide on COVID-19 Outbreak Response
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), with support from the US CDC and AFENET, conducted a ...
Since the COVID 19 outbreak was announced, AFENET has provided support to strengthen response activities in several African countries in collaboration with Africa CDC, the Pan African Health body for ...
The GFELTP which is the hub for training field epidemiologists in English speaking West Africa (with the exception Nigeria) has its residents and alumni involved in responding to this pandemic in the ...
The Burkina Faso FETP with support from AFENET and funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have offered continued support to the Ministry of Health since the first ...
The epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in Angola is characterized by a progressive increase in the number of confirmed cases and detection of the first 8 cases of local transmission, after an ...
In this interview conducted on May 2, 2020, AFENET Director Dr Simon Antara and Head of Programmes Dr Herbert Kazoora discuss the COVID-19 pandemic from an Africa perspective with London based ...
AFENET Corps of Disease Detectives (ACoDD) team members: Patricia Eyu and Aggrey Byaruhanga were deployed to conduct contact tracing for COVID-19, on 18 March 2020.
The confirmed case was a truck ...
From 30 March to 5 April 2020, epidemiologists at the AFENET Secretariat continued support to the Uganda Ministry of Health COVID-19 response. Uganda has recorded 55 confirmed cases to date with no ...
Following the declaration of COVID-19 in Uganda, fellows of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program (PHFP) – a partnership between the Ministry of Health, Makerere University School of Public ...
