Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) is a One Health Virtual Centre that links academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. SACIDS operates in smart partnership with centres of research and training excellence in industrialized countries as well as international research institutions.  The Headquarters of SACIDS is located at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania. Its programme of work is funded by The Wellcome Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, Rockefeller Foundation, Skolls Global Threats Fund, Google Foundation and the African development Bank (AfDB).

WHAT:            SACIDS mid term review meeting aimed to bring together key stakeholders of the project to review the implemented project plans and agree on the way forward. It is an opportunity to identify challenges and outline corrective actions to ensure that a project is on track to achieve maximum results by its completion.

WHO:              Participantsinclude influential key actors from SACIDS, Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) and other participants will come from Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF), Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children and Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries development.

WHEN:                   6th-8th October 2016

WHERE:                Morogoro Hotel, Morogoro