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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 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

Senegal FETP Response to COVID-19 in Senegal

Senegal recorded the first imported cases of COVID-19 infection on March 2, 2020. The outbreak has since spread to 33 districts. As of May 3, 2020, Senegal recorded 1,182 confirmed cases ...

Rwanda FELTP involvement in COVID19 response

Rwanda confirmed its first imported case on March 14, 2020 and developed case-definitions, laboratory tests, and enhanced surveillance to detect affected individuals with COVID-19 early, to enable ...

Nigeria FELTP Response to COVID-19

National Training of Trainers on PHC Workers Guide on COVID-19 Outbreak Response The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), with support from the US CDC and AFENET, conducted a ...

AFENET’s support to laboratory capacity strengthening during COVID-19

Since the COVID 19 outbreak was announced, AFENET has provided support to strengthen response activities in several African countries in collaboration with Africa CDC, the Pan African Health body for ...

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...