@dr_maruta highlighted @AfricaCDC's role in ensuring a safer, more secure world & building health security in Africa. This includes the initiative launched in 2019 to strengthen capacity of #African member states to comply with int’l engagements on biosafety & biosecurity.
#GPWMD thanks @WHO & @DrTedros for the clear commitment to work with partners to mitigate biological threats - whether natural, accidental or deliberate – & to build sustainable biosafety & strengthen the UN Secretary-General’s mechanism.
Dr. Joe Phaala, Minister of Health 🇿🇦 opened today's conference on Engaging Public Representatives in #BioSecurity & #Pandemic Preparedness - an important contribution to a continent-wide effort to prevent, detect & respond to infectious disease outbreaks through the #AfricaBioSI
Don't miss #COVID19 ECHO Session #42 on 15 April! Learn about innovations in SARS-CoV-2 antigen sample collection and testing from Abbott and Beckman Coulter. #LabCoP
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Request For Proposal to Support ASLM - Africa Centres for Disease Control Biosafety and Biosecurity Capacity Building Project to develop a Regulatory and Certification Framework for Institutions Handling High Risk Pathogens
Africa CDC and the Network of Biosafety and Biosecurity Trainers in North Africa met to discuss collaborations in the implementation of the Africa CDC Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative 5 Broad objectives
oin Africa CDC on the COVID-19 Webinar
Date: Tuesday 15 Sep 2020; 4-5 PM EAT. Topics (i) COVID-19 Update (ii) Updates from AFTCOR (iii) COVID-19 country level experience (iv) Partner Updates. Use link below to Register in advance for this meeting:
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Wednesday: 12 August 2020 from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm EAT.
Resumption of travel and re-opening of borders: Implications for ground crossings and inland ports.
Please register for the webinar using the link below
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@demetrius_banda@ShingiMunyeza Wapindwa neiko murandarume. Let's celebrate the union. There are certain feelings you feel as a parent...cried inside while i send away my 11 year son away to boarding school asking but why..at the same time, it had to be done for his future Good.Makorokoto mfundisi. Ndovhangeri
@ECSA_HC In a Simulation exercise, you create a d dramatize a real situation with actors to test how a health system will respond if this was a real case. There are several types of Simulation exercises, the most common being a drill. In this case it was Field Simulation which is masked
How prepared are countries for #Ebola? #ECSA_HC supports #Malawi in a 2 day simulation Exercise. Psuedo patient presenting with Ebola symptoms at the border, through to admission at the Ebola Treatment Unit in Karonga, what a great experience!!!
ECSA-HC team, under the SATBHSS Project meeting with the MoH Mozambique team to discuss implementation of the Regional electronic Intergrated Disease Surveillance Reporting (eIDSR) that will connect the 4 project countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia
As a follow up to the 2016 JEE, Lesotho marks yet another milestone in ensuring Global Health Security with the country conducting the Validation and Costing of the Draft National Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) through support of WHO and ECSA-HC from the 9-13 September 2019