Outbreak response training bolsters Mozambique’s cholera control
Dr Cremildo Rajabo has new confidence entering the cholera treatment centre in Lichinga district in northern Mozambique, one of the areas hardest-hit by the outbreak.
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Enhancing preparedness to tackle rising zoonotic diseases in Africa
The ongoing Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are the latest of several zoonotic diseases reported in the African region.
Read moreTackling malaria in Mali through stronger surveillance
How can numbers save lives? In three malaria-prone districts in central Mali, regular recording of cases is helping local health officials keep track of infection trends, but more importantly, they can now trigger an emergency response when the infection threshold is crossed and helping to curb potential large outbreaks.
Read moreCommunity-based response boosts Liberia’s COVID-19 detection, vaccination drive
As Liberia tackled rising COVID-19 cases in 2022, rapid diagnostic testing of everyone living within 100 metres of newly confirmed cases helped break transmission chains and significantly boosted the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines through reactive vaccination.
Read moreVaccines help battle cholera outbreak in Malawi
In late 2022 staff at Tukombo health centre, a stone’s throw away from the shores of Lake Malawi, were stretched to the limit. The small facility in northern Malawi had been repurposed to serve as a cholera treatment centre to care for hundreds of patients as cases surged amid the country’s worst outbreak.
Read moreZimbabwe tackles measles outbreak through intensive vaccination campaigns
When Baba Ruvheni heard health workers from his village talking about a measles outbreak in the country, he thought twice before getting his grandchild vaccinated.
Read moreIn Nigeria, boosting viral hepatitis awareness and treatment
Abuja – Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check. It was then that the 36-year-old resident of Ile-Ife Osun State in Southwestern Nigeria disc…
Read moreHow wastewater surveillance is helping the COVID-19 fight
Accra/Lusaka/Pretoria —Twice a week, a team of scientists from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) traverses the country’s metropolitan areas, visiting up to 50 wastewater treatment sites t…
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