On request, RKI supported the Namibia partners during the third wave of COVID-19, which was by far the highest in Namibia resulting in a high number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and high case fatality rates. In June 2021, it was unclear how long Namibia would be able to effectively manage…
In the framework of the already established twinning partnership between Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC) from Indonesia and I.S.A.R. Germany, a physical workshop was conducted from 25 – 28 November 2022 in Weeze and Hünxe, Germany. It was the first time that the two partners were able…
At the end of the first phase of the GHPP-DQA project, alumni and trainers from all DQA trainings as well as project staff from BfArM, InphA and WHO met for a virtual alumni meeting. The central point was a review of the activities and achievements of the DQA project so…
After being welcomed warmly by the management and entire staff of the chemistry division, the DQA team was introduced to the structures, the statuses as well as the perspectives of the laboratories at MCAZ. With three laboratory sections, the authority is able to perform the quality control of both medicines…
As part of the Global Health Protection Programme (GHPP) ‘One Health Namibia’, backed and financed by the Federal Ministry of Health of Germany, support of the Republic of Namibia in order to control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) plays a central role, in line with the…
The Cohort 6 of the Namibian Frontline FETP was successfully trained by the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) and MoHSS in partnership with US-CDC, WHO and RKI between 17 January and 6 April 2022. A Twinning Project for the establishment of a Namibia Institute of Public Health (NIPH) between the…
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…
Due to current COVID-19 related travel restrictions, the kickoff workshop of the PharmTrain-CoronaGlobal (PT-CoronaGlobal) project took place as an online event from 27 September to 29 September 2021. In collaboration with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), the project aims to strengthen the…
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…