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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

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 ...

ACoDD team conduct Contact tracing at Mulago Referral Hospital

AFENET Corps of Disease Detectives (ACoDD) team members: Patricia Eyu and Aggrey Byaruhanga were deployed to conduct contact tracing for COVID-19, on 18 March 2020. The confirmed case was a truck ...

AFENET Epidemiologists support COVID-19 response in Uganda

From 30 March to 5 April 2020, epidemiologists at the AFENET Secretariat continued support to the Uganda Ministry of Health COVID-19 response. Uganda has recorded 55 confirmed cases to date with no ...

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...