by Salomon Compaore | Jan 12, 2023 | Detect
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health sector has been advocating for and has been taking important steps toward more integrated public health surveillance systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)...
by Yasser Sanad | Oct 12, 2022 | Detect, Prevent
As we are approaching the fall and winter seasons, which provide favorable conditions for viruses such as Influenza virus to become more active, further precautionary actions are needed to avoid recurrence of the disease outbreak like last year. Avian influenza (AI)...
by Yasser Sanad | Oct 12, 2022 | Detect, Prevent
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses pose a significant threat to animal and human health and have tremendous negative economic impacts. Generally, avian influenza type A viruses are categorized based on the severity of the disease in chickens into two...
by EIDHS | Aug 19, 2022 | Detect, Prevent, Respond
A trained member of FHI 360’s safe and dignified burial team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows colleagues how to dress themselves in personal protective equipment to handle bodies of people who died from Ebola. The training took place in early 2021, during...
by EIDHS | Aug 3, 2022 | Detect
Laboratory officer in Batam in practicing RNA extraction. Photo by IDDS To increase the capacity to detect emerging zoonotic diseases (those that can spread from animals to humans) Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project, in collaboration with the...
by Lusubilo Malakbungu | Jun 23, 2022 | Detect, Uncategorized
Laboratory services are an often under-recognized, yet vital component of any health care system. Though the impact of these services goes unseen for the vast majority of patients, it is estimated that about 75% of clinical decisions in general hospital services are...
