Africa CDC continues to support Mpox response in Africa through the strengthening of diagnostic capacity, surveillance, case detection and management, contact tracing, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) among other efforts.
Africa CDC continues to support Mpox response in Africa through the strengthening of diagnostic capacity, surveillance, case detection and management, contact tracing, Infection Prevention and Control among other efforts.
Africa CDC is working with African Union Member States and partners to build multi-disease detection and sequencing capacity for early detection and better characterization of Africa's priority diseases."Our support to Burundi is in line with this continental initiative of strengthening laboratory systems for early warning surveillance, detection of outbreaks and mounting effective responses," said Dr.
The training was hands-on and provided participants with the skills necessary for the safe collection, packaging, handling, and transportation of infectious substances. This is critical for maintaining the quality and integrity of mpoxsamples for testing and characterization. Participants were trained on biorisk management, risk assessment, bioethics, occupational health, prevention of laboratory-associated infections, IPC, and biological waste management for mpox and other infectious diseases.
Professor Nyandwi stressed that these training sessions are more than just events; they represent a significant movetowards cultivating a culture of safe handling and transportation of biological agents.
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