As part of this new programme phase of GHPP (2023-2025), our project CELESTA focuses on expanding the genomic surveillance capacity for RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses of our cooperation partners. They are: the Laboratoire de Centre de Recherche en Virologie – Laboratoire des Fièvres Hemorragiques Virales de Guinée (CRV-LFHVG) in Conakry, Guinea,…
Needs-based plan for building structures and skills VaccTrain continues to support its partners in building regulatory capacity during the second phase of the GHPP. The VaccTrain team visited three of its five partner countries, The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, between February and July 2023. During this, the project teams…
PALS – the “Participatory Approach to Learning in Systems” is novel: based on a pilot project, the IPC practice approach and training concept were further developed by the NiCaDe IPC team and implemented for the first time in Nigeria 2019 – 2022. In evaluating the training program, we aim to…
As part of the ORDER-HC project, a team of the RKI and COMAHS conducted a qualitative study in Sierra Leone between the end of 2021 and the end of 2022. The aim of the study was to identify and analyse strategies, measures and experiences of health care providers of maintaining…
All over the world, doctors are prescribing too many unnecessary antibiotics. This leads to bacteria becoming resistant and the medication no longer working. Especially in resource-poor regions, doctors often prescribe unnecessary antibiotics for fear of overlooking potentially life-threatening bacterial infections of the respiratory tract. Often, laboratory diagnostics and imaging that…
With the support of GHPP-CoronaGlobal program, two SARS-CoV-2 field sequencing laboratories using the MinION technologies (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) have been successfully implemented in two of our partner laboratories in Guinea and Nigeria. Following several trainings performed at the Laboratoire des Fièvres Hemorragiques Virales en Guinée (CRV-LFHVG) in Guinea in 2021…