Context Madagascar is facing significant challenges in its health care system, due to the high prevalence of infectious diseases in the country, particularly neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Many of these diseases occur simultaneously and have chronic manifestations, imposing a huge burden on the population. It is therefore vitally important to…
Short Description The project strives to develop a model bacteriology laboratory with the capacities to perform blood, stool, urine and cervical swab cultures and antibiotic susceptibility testing according to the WHO Global antimicrobial resistance and use surveillance system (GLASS) guidelines. The laboratory will be fully integrated in the national antimicrobial…
Short Description The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is an Island state in Sub-Saharan Africa with approximately 200,000 inhabitants. Laboratory diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a crucial component in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the insufficient diagnostic capacity to detect…
Short Description As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical that essential services and operations continue to protect the lives of people with Tuberculosis (TB). The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to reverse much of the progress that has been made in reducing TB-related morbidity and…
Short Description Compared to other regions in the world, the African continent is faced with a particularly high number of infectious diseases. These include acute fevers of unknown origin as well as anti-infective-resistant pathogens that have barely been examined to date. This demonstrates a significant shortcoming, as illustrated by the…
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 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 recurrent Ebola epidemics of recent years, as well as other infectious diseases widespread in Africa such as HIV, tuberculosis or malaria, show that effective and safe medicines for the prevention and treatment of these infectious diseases are not, or not sufficiently, available. Under the umbrella name “RegTrain”…