COVID-19 has diverted most members‘ and the Network Coordinator’s capacities since February 2020. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), WHO and members have been liaising around how to maintain the Network’s activities while supporting priority COVID-19 efforts. The workplan is currently being updated again in light of limited…
Within the scope of ANDEMIA a course in „Advanced Epidemiology and Statistics“ was held at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg from 7 to 23 of May 2019. The course was taught by Dr. Matthias Borchert (RKI Berlin). Overall 14 participants from the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Since 2018 the RKI supports activities of the project PASQUALE towards the Improvement of Hand Hygiene (HH) to reduce nosocomial infections in two Partner hospitals in Guinea and Ivory Coast. The project functions internally as collaboration between the Centre for international Health Protection (ZIG) and…
It is one of the main goals of the IDEA project, attached to the Global Health Protection Program (GHPP), to establish and perpetuate capacities in diagnostics for the rapid identification of emerging infectious diseases in the partner country Sri Lanka. The range of diagnostics is being widened gradually by already…
The first use of the two new isolation wards for the care and treatment of COVID-19 patients is planned for mid-2020. In the further course of the project, the health personnel in the two isolation wards will be supported with targeted online training to strengthen their satellite function for the…
Due to the current global pandemic, the GHPP projects TRICE and ARGOS have set themselves the task of providing the best possible support to our partner countries (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa) and several other institutions in other African countries (Central African Republic, Zambia,…
Since then, the team at RKI has had one-on-one introductory discussions with each of the lead Network members. The work plan has been carefully reviewed and a plan has been made to monitor the corresponding Target Products (project activities) to make sure they are on track and feasible and members…
In response to COVID-19, the coordination group of the TuNDRA/TuNDRA Plus project (at RKI and the International Vaccine Institute, South Korea) carried out risk assessments for the ongoing project, which is being carried out in three countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam. In each country, risk reduction measures are being implemented…
The Surveillance Unit of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is holding an IHR Summer School on the IHR (2005) on an annual basis between 2017 and 2020. This is under the German Global Health Programme, financed by the German Ministry of Health (MoH). The aim of the Summer School is…