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 […]
ABUJA June 27, 2022 AFENET is conducting a 5-day manuscript writing workshop to provide hands-on mentorship to residents and graduates of the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP). The main objective of the workshop is to strengthen the scientific writing capacity of the participants and produce submission-ready manuscripts drafted from their work in […]
ABUJA June 27, 2022 The second cohort of trainees of the Malaria Short Course commence the second cluster of didactic sessions. Today, they present their field work to their peers and instructors. The Malaria Short Course is a three-month competency-based, mentored, in-service training to primarily build the capacity of sub-national malaria programme managers in Nigeria. […]
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