Short Description The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was requested by the Government of Namibia to assist in the development and implementation of a “Namibia Institute for Public Health” (NIPH). The following areas were identified as the focus for cooperation between the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services and the…
Short Description The WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network (“WHO AMR CC Network”) aims to reduce drug-resistant infections, also known as Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), through improved collection and reporting of AMR data worldwide. AMR is a significant global threat. International cooperation such as…
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 Health crises such as the large Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in West Africa (2014-2016) require a rapid mobilisation of resources to manage the outbreak. When existing resources and measures are concentrated and re-allocated to cope with an outbreak, routine health care can be severely compromised. In addition, fear…
Short Description PASQUALE is a project to increase patient safety in partner institutions (Faranah Regional Hospital, Guinea; Bouaké University Hospital, Ivory Coast). This project responds to the “Global Patient Safety Challenges” (GPSC) initiated by the World Health Organization. While PASQUALE 1 used the framework of the first challenge “Clean…
Short Description The aim of this project is to establish or deepen cooperation with project countries on equal footing in order to give scientific personnel from these countries access to new technologies and methods in the field of laboratory diagnostics and epidemiology. Qualified scientists from project countries are given the…
Short Description The countries of the WHO South-East Asian Region (SEARO), which account for a quarter of the world’s population, are particularly vulnerable to health emergencies because of both the usual risk of disease outbreaks and the additional threat of natural disasters. The International…
Short Description In order to achieve the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy goals, in addition to scientific innovations, there is a need for countries and organisations to work together at national and international level. With an increasingly mobile world population, improved tuberculosis care and prevention among migrants needs to…
Short Description In the European Vaccine Action Plan, the WHO defined hepatitis B control through immunization as one of the major strategic goals. The WHO/EURO Action Plan for response to viral hepatitis sets the goal of elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. It also sets…