As the world grapples to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic, Africa continues to battle an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On February ...
The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is pleased to introduce Dr Simon Nyovuura Antara who has been appointed by the AFENET Board of Directors as the Director of AFENET effective February ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
The Liberia Field Epidemiology Training Program (LFETP) held a pre-service training for 31 final-year students of the Achille Mario Dogliotti (AMD) College of Medicine in Monrovia, Liberia. The three ...
On 10 October 2019, the ZFETP held the first meeting of its alumni that convened over 70 graduates to share experiences. During the meeting, the Zambia FETP Alumni Network was formed and named the ...
Three Cohort II graduates of the Zambia advanced FETP participated in the 10th TEPHINET Global Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 28 October - 1 November 2019. Two of the residents made ...
Following Workshop, I, Cohort V trainees of Zambia Frontline FETP were each assigned a mentor to guide them during their field assignments which focus on data quality audits and surveillance. The ...
The Zambia Field Epidemiology Training Program (ZFETP) launched the fifth cohort of FETP. From 18 - 22 November 2019, 20 Cohort V trainees participated in didactic training sessions. Drawn from four ...
Trainees of the Sierra Leone Frontline and intermediate FETPs alongside 2 of their mentors joined a Lassa fever outbreak investigation in Tonkolili district from 22 November to 21 December 2019. The ...
