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…
Short Description The COVID-19 pandemic is exerting enormous pressure on health systems around the world. Following the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, health systems strengthening activities and interventions received increased funding and gained prominence in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Germany has played a major role in responding to the Ebola…
Short Description Few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have surveillance systems for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), resulting in significant gaps in data pertaining to bacteria of public health relevance. In cooperation with TRICE, this project aims to enhance resistance diagnostics in project countries by introducing a blood culture diagnostic system. Aims of…
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 COVID-19 strongly affects the living conditions of people, showing the value of reliable and timely information. The burden of disease (BoD) methodology is a suitable instrument to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health, but while illness and death impose a considerable impact, the disease…
Short Description The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the national health and care systems in hepatitis control. The need to reallocate resources and personnel, decreased accessibility to services, and temporarily reduced supplies of tests and medications are likely to have far-reaching consequences for other disease areas, including viral hepatitis.