From 5 July to 21 July 2022; Dr Arsene Zongo, scientist from Burkina Faso, spent 2 weeks at RKI in project group 3 (Epidemiology of highly pathogenic agents). During his stay, he deepened his knowledge in the field of molecular biology and bioinformatics. Indeed, since 2018 and thanks to the…
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 IHR Summer School is an RKI-organised one week-course for participants from partner countries that builds on the need for cooperation between countries explicitly mentioned in Article 44 of the International Health Regulations (IHR (2005)). The course aims to strengthen the IHR (2005) core capacities of selected partner countries, especially…
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…
We stay where the animals stay, we eat where the animals eat, we drink the same water as the animals. Our interlocutor tells us this while sitting on a wooden bench in the middle of the open cattle stables surrounded by his own animals and the ones from others. It…
The COVID-19 pandemic has put health systems under considerable stress. Health care workers (HCW) are a critical part of the health system´s pandemic response and have been challenged both by high workload and high risk of exposure. The BCHW project addresses these challenges: in a multisite international study between…
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…
FDMN (Rohingya refugees) and infectious disease outbreaks In 2017, about 700,000 Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) arrived in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, from the neighboring State of Myanmar. This influx added to previous refugees, as FDMN have fled from ethnic and religious persecution since the 1970s. Today, about one million FDMN…
Within the framework of the Global Health Protection Programme (GHPP), the IDEA project focuses on the molecular diagnostics of highly pathogenic viruses in Sri Lanka. In the course of the past years, PCR laboratories were set up in the partner institutions Colombo North Teaching Hospital (CNTH) and University of Colombo…