Health security
Exploring Emerging Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity with GET Africa
From the 16th – 18th of August we attended the 3rd African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity in Accra, Ghana. The conference was hosted by the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment (GET) Consortium. Attendees included representatives from the biotechnology, biosecurity, and biobanking industries; health economists; bioethicists; engineers; government representatives from various African and European […]
Food Safety for Overall Health Security: Strengthening the Capacity of Food Safety Officers
"Out of 600 million of the world population that fall sick in a year from food-borne diseases, Nigeria produces about 173 million of those cases, which is up to 29% of that share in the whole world." - Dr. Andy Ukah, Associate Professor and Facilitator, SCF Project. Infectious diseases do not respect status or class. […]
The Current State of Disease Outbreaks in Nigeria: What You Need to Know
“We want people to take responsibility for how healthy they are, and we want to help them live longer, healthier lives." - Dr. Tom Frieden Most developing countries are burdened with communicable diseases that cause illnesses and death. Nigeria is not left out of this challenge. Certain factors like population, behavioral practices, access to healthcare, […]
Strengthening Community Health and Grassroots Disease Surveillance: The SCKaR-IDP Project
“I have learned a lot about infectious diseases, for example, when we see anyone around us showing symptoms of an infectious disease like measles, we will advise them to go to the hospital or call the number of Disease Surveillance Notification Officers as seen on the pocket card.” – Community Health Champion (Butcher) Many people […]
When a Hospital Wants to get Prepared, We’re There to Help
DRASA and the Lagos State Ministry of Health received a request from Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute-Metta to train their staff. This request came after they heard about the training we did for Lagos state general hospitals. Why did they want training? Because of the ongoing Lassa fever outbreak across the country, FMC Ebute-Metta wanted to be […]
The Impact of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs) on Society
Today we attended a Scientific Conference hosted by Lagos University Teaching Hospital’s (LUTH) Association of Resident Doctors (ARD). The theme of the conference was The Impact of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs) on Society; Perspective from a Patient’s Relative. We were happy to share information about our recently completed training on VHFs for general hospitals in Lagos state as […]