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WEST AFRICA PROFILE
Map of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo
To find out more about the WA FELTP, click on WA FELTP.
WA FELTP
Established: 2007
Affiliations: WHO Multi Disease Surveillance Centre (MDSC) and the University of Ouagadougou, UFR/SDS, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Director WHO MDSC: Prof. M. Kader Konde, Director ai WHO MDSC Tel: +226-70200263
Email: kondek@oncho.afro.who.int
WA FELTP Interim Coordinator: Dr. Sennen Hounton Tel: +226-70332505
Email: hountons@oncho.afro.who.int
Director Public Health Department : Prof Blaise Sondo, UFR/SDS (Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Science De la Sante) Ouagadougou Tel + 226 70200731
Email : sondoblaise@yahoo.fr
Overview
The MDSC was created in 2003 by WHO AFRO at the closure of the Onchocerchiasis Control Program. The main objective is to serve as lab based reference center for surveillance and response to epidemic prone diseases in the West Africa region
The MDSC has main 4 pillars:
- Regional Enhanced Surveillance in the framework of integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) including epidemic prone disease, Information Sharing & Network Communication;
- Reference Laboratory with Quality Assessment/Quality Control comparative advantage including Bio Security;
- Capacity Building based on Research & Training; strengthening of countries in disease surveillance and response;
- Operation’s Hub for Epidemic Alert & Response with support to country for IHR implementation.
The centre is at the forefront of the development, evaluation of impact and introduction of a new meningitis conjugate vaccine Men A in partnership with WHO, PATH, CDC, through the Meningitis Vaccine Project which aims to “eliminate epidemic meningitis in Sub Saharan Africa”.
WA FELTP
The programme will focus on the first four countries, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Togo and will expand to other French speaking countries in the region. It will contribute to the control of epidemic prone diseases including Meningitis, Cholera, Avian Influenzae etc, by providing countries with services-oriented trainees, immediately operational health human resources for effective and timely control of epidemics, in the framework of the International Health Regulation (IHR). It is a competency-based two-years course with 25% didactic and 75 fieldwork.
For more information about our partners in the WA FELTP please click on the following links: WAHO (West Africa Health Organization) and University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Contacts:
Professor M. Kader Konde Director , ai WHO Multi Disease Surveillance Centre 01 BP 549 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Tel: +226 50 34 38 18 Fax: +226 50 34 28 75 Email: kondek@oncho.afro.who.int |
Dr Sennen Hounton |
Prof Blaise Sondo
Director Public Health Department, UFR/ SDS University of Ouagadougou
03 BP 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso
Tel: +226 50 33 35 94
Tel: +226 50 36 32 15
Email: sondoblaise@yahoo.fr
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