The US CDC has extended funding support to AFENET to implement a project titled” West Africa strategy for Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) surveillance. The project will leverage on the existing country-based Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) surveillance activities in the West Africa region and to describe AFI etiologies, including its surveillance and laboratory capacity in place. Read more.

In order to take stock of the implementation and to reflect on the sustainability of the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in Djibouti, a review workshop with the stakeholders was organized jointly by AFENET and the National Institute of Public Health of Djibouti (INSPD) at the Ministry of Health on September 27, 2022. Read more.

“We learned and practiced the core skills used in frontline surveillance, including the use of case definitions, disease screening and reporting, data synthesis using simple tables and graphs, case investigation, outbreak investigation and response, surveillance and evaluation as well as the analysis and interpretation of data for decision making in a first phase and in a second phase.” - Dr Rozi Tchiou, Chief District Physician of N'Djamena East. Read more.

With technical support from AFENET and US CDC, the Ghana River Blindness Program is in the final stages to determine whether to stop mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin and declare triumph over the disease. Read more.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony in Nampula, the 12 frontline disease detectives noted that the knowledge acquired would go a long way towards improving their work when it comes to epidemiological surveillance management in their respective areas of operation. Read more.

The DTP Boost model is a first-of-its-kind model developed to jointly estimate the health and economic effects of introducing the WHO-recommended booster doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis containing vaccine (DTPcv). This application allows in-country subject matter experts (SMEs) to set initial conditions and calibrate stochastic compartment models without requiring any coding expertise or experience with non-linear systems. Read more.

The Federal Ministry of Health is implementing the program with support from partners including the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and the Public Health Agency of Sweden. Read more.

The Somali team visited to pick experiences, best practices, and lessons learned from the Liberia FETP in implementing the frontline program in the West African country for over five years. Meanwhile the purpose of the CDC team visit was to understand LFETP’s strengths and weaknesses and support the program on its path towards institutionalization. Read more.

The theme of the conference was “Maintaining Public Health during a Pandemic.” The first and second editions of the conference were held in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The conference is an annual event that provides the scientific community in Liberia the opportunity and platform to share research findings and deliberate on recent developments in public health and other related scientific disciplines. Read more.

During nine months, the residents were equipped with requisite skills in applied field epidemiology, such as disease surveillance (surveillance data analysis and system evaluation), outbreak investigation and response, data quality and management, observational studies, and public health communication. Read more.