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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

COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge seeks entries
FETP 40th Anniversary: Dr Antara shares his reflections on the program
Updates from the field Vol. 5
CDC BOOSTS AFENET COVID-19 LABORATORY WORK

Capacity Development: AFENET team led by Mr. Davis Ashaba during support supervision in a laboratory in Angola
1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa
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.

Ghana FELTP Response to COVID-19

The GFELTP which is the hub for training field epidemiologists in English speaking West Africa (with the exception Nigeria) has its residents and alumni involved in responding to this pandemic in the ...

Burkina Faso FETP continued support to the COVID-19 response

The Burkina Faso FETP with support from AFENET and funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have offered continued support to the Ministry of Health since the first ...

Angola FELTP COVID-19 response activities

The epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in Angola is characterized by a progressive increase in the number of confirmed cases and detection of the first 8 cases of local transmission, after an ...

Interview: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

In this interview conducted on May 2, 2020, AFENET Director Dr Simon Antara and Head of Programmes Dr Herbert Kazoora discuss the COVID-19 pandemic from an Africa perspective with London based ...

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...