AFENET Projects

AFENET

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

Risk Communication and Community Engagement to Strengthen the Fight against COVID-19 and HIV

Funder: UNAIDS Project period: 2 August 2021 to 31 March 2022 Background: Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Africa February 2020, the HIV global targets of testing and treatment set ...

Implementation of End Quality Improvement of COVID-19 Response for the FCT, Abuja, Nigeria – Phase 2

Funder: Vital Strategies Project period: 14 January 2022 to 31 March 2022. Background: The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is the second epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria, The ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction in Ghana

Funder: Taskforce for Global Health Project period: 9 April 2021 to 29 September 2021. Background: Ghana completed the first phase of a multi-phase national COVID-19 immunization campaign. Phase ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Regional acute febrile illness surveillance protocol adaptation meeting takes place in Dakar

In Africa, fevers are very common, and they pose significant challenges for clinicians, especially in places where diagnostic capacity is low, to...

Présidium des travaux technique du comité de pilotage de Djibouti FETP D-G : Dr Houssein Youssouf Darar, DG INSPD et Dr Pedwinde Hamadou Seogo, RA Djibouti FETP

Djibouti organise un atelier d'examen de la mise en œuvre du FETP

Le Ministère de la santé de concert avec l’African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), l’Organisation Mondiale Santé (OMS) et l’Autorité...

20 graduate from second cohort of Chad frontline FETP

Twenty residents have graduated from the second cohort of the frontline tier of the Chad field epidemiology training program (FETP). Officiating at...

AFENET, US CDC support Ghana’s first evaluation of whether transmission of river blindness has been controlled

With technical support from AFENET and US CDC, the Ghana River Blindness Program is in the final stages to determine whether to stop mass drug...

12 health workers graduate from cohort 4 of Mozambique FETP; promise improved service delivery

Twelve more health technicians have recently graduated from the frontline tier of the Mozambique Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) at a...

US CDC and AFENET pilot the DTP Booster Dose Modelling App in Uganda

Activity The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) in partnership with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) has...