Introduction On 27 October 2017, the South African Government commemorated what would have been the 100th birthday of Oliver Kaizana Reginald Tambo by establishing the OR Tambo African Research Chairs Initiative (ORTARChI). OR Tambo was one of the South Africa’s most important revolutionary leaders and the longest serving president of the ruling African National Congress…

Start Date:  01/10/2021 End Date: 30/06/2022 Project Description Goal Our overarching goal is to enhance multi-sectoral collaboration for early disease outbreak detection and response in humans and animals in Tanzania.Objective To set up a digital One Health platform for strengthening the National One Health Coordination Desk together with the sector ministries in their ability to detect disease…

Grant Agreement for Award #20-45012 Background: The Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) outbreak first reported in Wuhan, China on 31stDecember 2019 has now spread to almost all continents. By March 3, 2020, already 66 countries have reported cases of COVID-19, three of them in Africa (Algeria, Egypt and Nigeria). The health systems in many African countries…

Scope: The project has five objectives of which two (2&5) are being implemented by SACIDS Foundation for One Health Objective 2: To support EBS implementation pilot and scale-up in Member States Objective 5: To implement core activities of Africa CDC’s strategy to address antimicrobial resistance.  

COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS   SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Tanzania (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kindom Chatham House Centre for Global Health   INVESTIGATORS   Principal Investigator Mecky Matee, Muhimbili University of Health…

SUMMARY  Background: Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) refer to a group of illnesses that are caused by several distinct families of viruses. The term VHF is used to describe a severe multisystem syndrome characterised by an overall vascular system damage. Although no clinical cases of Ebola, Marburg or Yellow fever have been reported in Tanzania, its…

1. Background 1.1. Ending Pandemics (a project of Tides Center) entered into an agreement with Mott MacDonald Limited on August 14, 2019 to improve laboratory capacity for diagnosis and surveillance of anti-microbial resistance (“AMR”) in low-income countries where AMR has a disproportionate impact (the “Agreement”), attached as Appendix A. 1.2. Ending Pandemics is responsible for…

Field survey report AfyaData Project : Promoting Proper Management of Zoonotic Diseases through e-based One Health Training of Frontline Health Worker Global South eHealth Observatory Fondation Pierre Fabre     During the five-hour journey from the country’s economic capital Dar Es Salaam to Morogoro, the route took us ever deeper into the real rural Tanzania,…

  Executive Summary Early communication between sectors and neighboring countries, leading to faster detection and response to disease outbreaks, is a critical step to make a difference to emerging global public health threats. Infectious diseases have a significant impact on vulnerable populations and children across the world. Outbreaks of emerging diseases pose enormous challenges to…

Funder: Wellcome Trust Goal To enhance the research capacity of southern African institutions for infectious diseases by targeted postgraduate programmes at MSc, PhD and Postdoctoral levels as well as professional continuing development (CPD) delivered through taught and distance learning plus apprenticeship research projects. The focus of the science will be the detection, identification and monitoring of…