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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

CDC BOOSTS AFENET COVID-19 LABORATORY WORK

AFENET has received funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support laboratory capacity to respond to COVID-19. The $5,436,100 grant will support accelerated planning ...

Champions of the DR Congo Ebola Response - Part 3

Celebrating epidemiologists Aline and Betty As we continue with our series, this week we bring you two lady epidemiologists. Both members of the 6th cohort of the DR Congo Field Epidemiology and ...

Champions of the DR Congo Ebola Response - Part 2

Celebrating doctors Lwamba and Djamba DR Congo has experienced recurrent Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks, and this has left the health system struggling to contain these epidemics. However, thousands ...

Champions of the Ebola response in DR Congo - Part 1

Celebrating Epidemiologists Anta and Ayumuna June 25 marked the end of the 10th outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a statement issued ...

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...