• WHO Mission on Viral Hepatitis and HIV to Kyrgyzstan

  At the end of April 2022, a World Health Organization (WHO) mission with the participation of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) took place to Kyrgyzstan to assess the national hepatitis and HIV elimination programmes. This included consideration of the objectives for two Global…

• Ceremony of the Official Launch of the TB Sequencing Project and Commissioning of the Clinical Advisory Committee

  Eswatini will now be able to detect drug resistant TB and COVID-19 variants after the National Referral Laboratory (NRL) introduced genomic sequencing technology. The Director of Health Services, Dr Vusi Magagula, commissioned the launch of the TB sequencing laboratory in the presence of the German partner Prof Dr Stefan Niemann…

• Modern Diagnostic of Drug-Resistance in TB – Training in “Next Generation Sequencing for Prediction of Drug Resistance in Clinical M. Tuberculosis Strains”

  In the framework of the GHPP project SeqMDRTB_NET the technology implementation team of Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Lung Center (RCB) visited the National Institute of Health (INS) in Maputo, Mozambique in November 2021. INS has potential to set up the new technology of targeted next generation sequencing (tgNGS), which…

• New challenges? – New formats! Virtual Support of National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) face various challenges: NITAGs normally develop recommendations based on a broad body of evidence. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence needed to develop recommendations e.g. on risk factors for severe and fatal courses or effects of COVID-19 variants on…