Context Guinea is a lower-middle-income country in Western Africa and holds a complex burden of disease with malaria, respiratory diseases, stroke, diarrheal diseases, and preterm birth complications as the top causes of death. The African region has limited infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities, with healthcare-associated infections (HAI) surveillance being…
Context Viral haemorrhagic fevers, especially Lassa fever, cause outbreaks in West Africa, including in Nigeria, Guinea, and Benin. Many referral hospitals face limited intensive care capacity, shortages of essential equipment and supplies, and insufficiently trained staff. This leads to preventable deaths and weak preparedness for larger outbreaks. The MEVIN 2.0…
Advancing sustainable genomic surveillance capacity in West Africa is a central goal of the GHPP-CELESTA project. In 2025, CELESTA partners achieved two major milestones: the successful training and implementation of the ViMOP bioinformatics pipeline (https://www.bnitm.de/en/news/news/neue-pipeline-vimop), and the establishment of a new sequencing unit at the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever…
This page is currently under development. An overview of the project will be published shortly. In the meantime, you are welcome to visit https://ghpp.de/en/projects/ for information about further projects within the GHPP. Thank you for your patience. Facts Duration 01.01.2026 - 31.12.2028 Budget…
Context The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the critical importance of genomic surveillance for protecting public health. By analysing the genetic material of viruses, outbreaks can be detected earlier, transmission pathways can be understood, and effective control measures can be implemented. This is particularly useful, for example, when new variants emerge or…
This page is currently under development. An overview of the project will be published shortly. In the meantime, you are welcome to visit https://ghpp.de/en/projects/ for information about further projects within the GHPP. Thank you for your patience. Facts Duration 01.01.2026 - 31.12.2028 Budget…
Across the globe, hand hygiene is promoted to fight the spread of healthcare associated infections. Despite multiple ongoing hand hygiene campaigns and projects, healthcare associated infection rates remain high especially in low- and middle-income countries. The text depicts the project journey since 2017, when PASQUALE has been expanding its work…
As part of this new programme phase of GHPP (2023-2025), our project CELESTA focuses on expanding the genomic surveillance capacity for RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses of our cooperation partners. They are: the Laboratoire de Centre de Recherche en Virologie – Laboratoire des Fièvres Hemorragiques Virales de Guinée (CRV-LFHVG) in Conakry, Guinea,…
Yet, the 2019 Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria showed a magnitude that was even higher than the unprecedented Lassa fever outbreak in 2018 during the same period. This increase was equally mirrored in the increased workload of the laboratory. In this context, there was a clear need to support…