AFENET Projects

AFENET

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

SMS REMINDER PROJECT IN UGANDA

Project name: Evaluating a caregiver SMS reminder intervention to reduce immunization drop-out in Arua, Uganda—a andomized controlled trial. Background According to its 2011 Demographic and ...

Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) Project

Through the NCD surveillance network, AFENET helped to improve data collection, analysis, and presentation related to the burden of non-communicable diseases in Uganda. To achieve its objective, ...

AFENET CDC EPT One Health Fellowship

The One Health Fellowship proposed to enhance knowledge and skills of field epidemiology graduates from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania through a one year fellowship. Specifically, the fellowship seeks to ...

ONE HEALTH E-SURVEILLANCE INITIATIVE (OHSI) - COUNTRY LEVEL WORKING GROUP (CLWG) ORIENTATION PRESENTATION

Background In 1998, the World Health Organization African Regional Office (WHO/AFRO) and its 46 Member States, adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR), as a strategy for ...

Use of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Diagnosis in Home Management of Malaria in Uganda

In African countries, febrile illnesses (malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and common cold) are a common cause of ill health among children less than five years old. In an attempt to reduce childhood ...

Abstracts of Cohort 1: AFENET CDC EPT One Health Fellowship

Multi-Species Outbreak of Pulmonary and Cutaneous Anthrax, Sheema District, Uganda, 2011 Arthur Bagonza1, Monday Busuulwa2, Stella Immaculate Akech1, Bernard Ngago1, Ben Nsajju1, Chima Ohuabunwo2, ...

Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) Project

AFENET is establishing a surveillance system for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using data available from patients attending the institutions’ clinics , and periodically analyzing and ...

One Health Fellows

Dr. Arthur Bagonza is a veterinarian with a master’s degree in Public Health from Makerere University. As a public health practitioner, he has worked with both government systems and ...

AFENET/CDC/EPT one Health Fellowship

The One Health Fellowship proposes to enhance knowledge and skills of field epidemiology graduates from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania through a one year fellowship. Specifically, the fellowship seeks ...

AFRICHOL

AFRICHOL is intended to strengthen surveillance systems in Africa and reinforce outbreak investigation and provide accurate data that would inform vaccine decision making for Africa. AFRICHOL is ...

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