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 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 Establishing a freely-accessible, comprehensive, and user-friendly registry of systematic reviews on vaccinations and vaccine-preventable diseases is at the core of this project. An accompanying E-learning course offers step-by-step guidance on how to use existing reviews to develop vaccination recommendations for respective countries. The content of the course…
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 Vaccines are crucial public health measures to fight vaccine-preventable diseases, e.g. measles. Further, COVID-19 vaccines, once available, will be essential to fight the pandemic. In Cox’s Bazar, 860,697 Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)/Rohingya refugees live in camps. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization rates among FDMN/Rohingya…
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 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…