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AFENET African Field Epidemiology Network

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

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.
AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS (FETPs) INVOLVEMENT IN COVID – 19 RESPONSE
CONTACT TRACING DURING COVID-19

Dr Joseph Magoola – Epidemiologist AFENET conducting an interview with a contact to a positive case for COVID-19 in Kampala, Uganda.
UPDATES FROM THE FIELD: AFRICAN FETPS’ INVOLVEMENT IN THE COVID-19 RESPONSE
Message from Dr Simon Nyovuura Antara – Director AFENET: COVID-19 and Staff Safety
AFENET is working with Ministries of Health to boost points of entry surveillence and contact tracing across 31 African Countries

AFENET, CRDF Global form partnership to strengthen Global Health in Africa

CRDF Global and the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) have announced a partnership to advance global health capacity building programs in sub Saharan Africa. Through this new ...

205 residents and graduates of the Nigeria FELTP deployed on COVID-19 Response to 34 States

Initial models predicted that Nigeria would record an estimated 2,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the first month after the index case was confirmed on 27 of February, 2020. By 31st of March, 2020, ...

Zimbabwe FETP Update on COVID-19 response

Zimbabwe has recorded 34 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four deaths as at April 30, 2020. Zimbabwe is currently under the second phase of a country wide lock down until 18 May 2020. The Zimbabwe ...

Uganda Frontline FETP COVID-19 response

In Uganda graduates of field epidemiology training programs have been central in the country’s response. At district level they form the technical arm of the district task force that is important ...

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...