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…
Diagnostic stewardship study To evaluate the diagnostic stewardship interventions, a study with pre- and post-intervention data collection was conducted in two pilot secondary health care facilities in Abuja, Nigeria. The pre-intervention data collection took place from September 2020 to July 2021 (see report from December 2020). Due to the COVID-19…
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…
Inspections contribute to blood safety and effectiveness Blood establishments do not only collect blood from donors, they often also have the license to further process the blood into the components needed for therapy. For this processes and manufacturing, blood establishments must comply with requirements – for example, for donor selection…
BloodTrain Haemovigilance Technical Support: Key Steps to Launch Agreement with the partner country on the major next steps and processes. Formation of a small team; the so-called Haemovigilance (HV) Task Team. In this team, all stakeholder groups of the partner country relevant for haemovigilance are represented: The Food And Drugs Authority…
With the support of GHPP-CoronaGlobal program, two SARS-CoV-2 field sequencing laboratories using the MinION technologies (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) have been successfully implemented in two of our partner laboratories in Guinea and Nigeria. Following several trainings performed at the Laboratoire des Fièvres Hemorragiques Virales en Guinée (CRV-LFHVG) in Guinea in 2021…
To continue our capacity building program in Guinea, refresher trainings were organized in the three laboratories for viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) in Conakry (CRV-LFHVG*), Gueckédou (LFHV-GKD*) and N’Zérékoré (LFHV-HRNZE*) to reinforce the laboratory preparedness and to contribute actively to the surveillance system of the country. Enhancement of reliable diagnostics in…