Over the past year, AFENET-NSTOP, with technical and financial support from the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been implementing the Consequential Geography (CG) Project in Zamfara State. The project aims to strengthen routine immunization (RI), increase vaccine coverage, reduce the number of zero-dose and under-immunized children, and enhance surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases […]
Ongoing efforts to validate a novel bead-based multiplex assay and rapid tests in Nigeria to address the need for several assays to diagnose/confirm HIV serology andperform HIV typing have progressed to its second phase. Implementing partners of the Optimizing HIV Diagnosis project including the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, (FMoH), National AIDS, Viral […]
NCDC, AFENET AND BREAKTHROUGH ACTION-NIGERIA COMMENCE MEDIA-EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFODEMIOLOGY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR CHANGE (MEDIA-EIS) FELLOWSHIP IN NIGERIA. Background At the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, predictive models pointed to stark outcomes for Africa. Compounded by the verse spectrum of diseases on the continent and the fragile health care facilities and services, COVID-19 was expected to devastate […]
AFENET RECEIVES THE “POLIO HEROES’ AWARD” IN NIGERIA FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE ELIMINATION OF WILD POLIOVIRUS IN NIGERIA Nigeria was certified wild polio-free on 25th August 2020. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health commemorates the Third anniversary of Wild Poliovirus eradication in Nigeria on […]
LAUNCH OF SCALES 3.0 STRATEGY: ACCELERATING INTEGRATED COVID-19 VACCINATION AND PHC SERVICES IN NIGERIA AFENET participated in the official launching of the SCALES 3.0 strategy for COVID-19 vaccination held in Abuja on August 8, 2022. The SCALES 3.0 strategy, an initiative of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), aims to ramp up COVID-19 […]
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