AFENET Projects

AFENET

Disease Detectives Network for a Healthier Africa | Réseau de détecteurs de maladies pour l’Afrique plus saine

Risk Communication and Community Engagement to Strengthen the Fight against COVID-19 and HIV

Funder: UNAIDS Project period: 2 August 2021 to 31 March 2022 Background: Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Africa February 2020, the HIV global targets of testing and treatment set ...

Implementation of End Quality Improvement of COVID-19 Response for the FCT, Abuja, Nigeria – Phase 2

Funder: Vital Strategies Project period: 14 January 2022 to 31 March 2022. Background: The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is the second epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria, The ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction in Ghana

Funder: Taskforce for Global Health Project period: 9 April 2021 to 29 September 2021. Background: Ghana completed the first phase of a multi-phase national COVID-19 immunization campaign. Phase ...

SMS REMINDER PROJECT IN UGANDA

Project name: Evaluating a caregiver SMS reminder intervention to reduce immunization drop-out in Arua, Uganda—a andomized controlled trial. Background According to its 2011 Demographic and ...

AFENET CDC EPT One Health Fellowship

The One Health Fellowship proposed to enhance knowledge and skills of field epidemiology graduates from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania through a one year fellowship. Specifically, the fellowship seeks to ...

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DRC conducts module adaptation training in preparation for intermediate FETP commencement

As part of the preliminary activities necessary for the implementation of the intermediate level of the FETP program in the Democratic Republic of...

DRC trains health workers in malaria surveillance at the operational, intermediate, and central levels in Kinshasa

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) with the financial and technical support of the President’s Malaria...

SOPs for Rapid Response Teams in DRC’s Kongo Central Region near completion

Standardization of a Rapid Response Team in the Kongo Central Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is nearing completion following a second...

Where are Africa’s field epidemiology graduates?

In 2020, data from field epidemiology training programs showed 1,995 advanced, 4,951 frontline, and 248 intermediate graduates. This number is bound to go...

AFENET convenes in Nairobi, discusses lessons from Covid-19 pandemic and future plans

With now some ease in the Covid-19 pandemic, the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is seeking to diffuse the experience in the COVID-19...

Somalia FETP trains health workers to rapidly detect and respond to disease outbreaks

The long march to rebuilding Somalia’s capacity in disease surveillance and response, largely a result of decades of civil unrest and conflict, has...