Short Description It is predicted that Nigeria will be the 3rd most populous country in the world after China and India by 2050. Growth in population density and the resulting demand for means of livelihood necessitates human encroachment and exposure to zoonotic pathogens like coronavirus and the risk of pathogen…
Short Description The project is designed to support the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in building capacity to prevent and manage infectious diseases. The NCDC was established in 2011 in response to public health challenges of disease outbreaks and and to enhance Nigeria’s preparedness and response to epidemics through…
Short Description Since 2016, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine has been working with the Global Health Protection Programme (AfroLabNet) in Nigeria, Benin and Guinea to strengthen stationary and mobile laboratory capacities on viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) of the risk group 4 such as Lassa fever. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Short Description Health workforce is the key to health systems resilience. WHO describes a well-performing health workforce as “one that works in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available resources and circumstances”. In the current COVID-19 crisis, health care workers (HCWs)…
Short Description Blood and blood products are important medical products, acknowledged as indispensable by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, in many African countries, there is a deficiency in both the quantity and quality of available blood reserves. The procedures for performing, processing, storing, and testing blood donations are often…
Short Description The project Go Africa 2021 aims at promoting WHO’s global action plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). AMR in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) is a global public health threat. In the WHO African region, 11 million new infections are estimated each year. NG prevention, diagnostics and control remain a great…
Short Description The World Health Organization (WHO) has added Lassa fever to its Research and Development Blueprint priority disease list, which includes diseases with a potential to cause public health emergencies for which there are currently no vaccinations or safe treatment solutions. The Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital…
Short Description The capacity to safely diagnose infectious diseases caused by tropical pathogens with epidemic potential is limited in many African countries. This limitation in diagnostic capacities results in failure to react adequately to outbreaks, which likely contributed to the delayed response observed during the Ebola virus outbreak in West…
PALS – the “Participatory Approach to Learning in Systems” is novel: based on a pilot project, the IPC practice approach and training concept were further developed by the NiCaDe IPC team and implemented for the first time in Nigeria 2019 – 2022. In evaluating the training program, we aim to…