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Message from Dr Simon Nyovurra 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 is working with Ministries of Health to boost points of entry surveillence and contact tracing across 31 African Countries
GUIDELINES FOR PREVENTION OF COVID-19 IN PUBLIC PLACES
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation
Coronavirus outbreak: Ethiopia steps up prevention measures
Dr. Simon Antara - Director of AFENET and Prof Mufuta Tshimanga – Board Chairman, AFENET at the AGM on 28 February 2020 in Kampala, Uganda
AFENET Annual General Meeting(AGM) 28 February 2020 at Kampala Serena Hotel

A cross section of Program Directors: Dr Ernest Kenu - Program Director, Ghana FELTP, Dr, Cynthia Sema - Program Director, Mozambique, Dr. Loviness Urio – Representing Program Director Tanzania FELTP, Prof Mufuta Tshimanga - Program Director, Zimbabwe FETP and Board Chairman AFENET and Dr. Simon Antara - Director of AFENET at the AGM 28 February 2020 in Kampala
AFENET Annual General Meeting(AGM) 28 February 2020 at Kampala Serena Hotel
COVID- 19 How prepared is the African Continent
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Immunization Data Quality Improvement in Karamoja

A mother awaiting vaccination in Amudat District, Uganda during a DIT vaccination mentorship exercise in February 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Preparedness in Africa: The Role of African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs)
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation reports
Partnership Against 2019-nCoV in Africa
Cohort 2018 Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program Graduation Ceremony

Mirembe Bernadette Basuta(in yellow), graduate of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program being awared by Hon. Robinah Nabbanja - Minister of Health, Uganda
DIT training and field deployment for Moroto region

Dr. Kevin Mugenyi - Epidemiologist – AFENET making a presentation on the DIT program during the training in Soroti District, Uganda.
Resolution of Non compliant household head by the LGA Non Compliance Resolution Team at an NSTOP supported Demand Generation site. (Courtesy of AFENET Nigeria)
DRC FETP ACoDD Team members conducting community surveillance and mapping to the Response to Ebola

Immunization Data Quality Improvement in Karamoja

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 ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Preparedness in Africa: The Role of African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs)

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 ...

Partnerships against 2019-nCov in Africa

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 Frontline Cohort XI Workshop 2

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, ...

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...