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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.

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 ...

Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program FETP residents in COVID-19 Preparedness and Response

Following the declaration of COVID-19 in Uganda, fellows of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program (PHFP) – a partnership between the Ministry of Health, Makerere University School of Public ...

Mozambique Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) COVID-19 response activities

Rapid Assessment at the main points of entry in Mozambique At the end February, 2020, seven graduates of the Mozambique FETP conducted a rapid assessment exercise at the main points of entry in five ...

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...