Short description Challenges Addressed by the Project Capacity building is an important component of GHPP projects. It requires training and mentoring, learning and practice, and constant exchange. Due to time, cost or environmental reasons, this cannot always take place face-to-face. Therefore, the use of electronic forms and means of communication…
Short Description It is predicted that Nigeria will be the 3rd most populous country in the world after China and India by 2050. Growth in population density and the resulting demand for means of livelihood necessitates human encroachment and exposure to zoonotic pathogens like coronavirus and the risk of pathogen…
Short Description Event-based surveillance (EBS) is a key component in public health surveillance. Its effectiveness is conditioned by the number of sources used and the speed of processing its information. Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodology allows the filtering and extraction of key information from online texts with high precision, much…
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 Emergency Medical Teams for medical assistance in health emergencies Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) are teams of doctors, nurses and logisticians which deploy to an affected country in response to disasters and disease outbreaks. By treating the affected population, they provide surge capacity to support the local health system.
Short Description National Immunisation Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) are multidisciplinary panels of national experts providing independent and evidence-based guidance to Ministries of Health on immunisation policies and vaccine use in the population. The main task of the NITAGs is to gather, review, evaluate and structure evidence on specific vaccination topics…