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Now Accepting Nominations for the 2014 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award

May 13, 2013

The Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation announces that nominations are now being accepted for the third annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Award.

Event: Epicentre/MSF Scientific Day 2013

April 22, 2013

The 2013 Scientific Day organised by Epicentre and Médecins Sans Frontières will take place on Thursday, May 30th, at the "Institut du Monde Arabe" in Paris, France.

For more information, please visit the Epicentre/MSF website

Recruitments

March 06, 2013

The AMP Africa Regional Office is recruiting two Regional Coordinators for the Africhol Project: a Project Regional Coordinator for East Africa and a Project Regional Coordinator for West Africa.

New Year Greetings

January 16, 2013

The Africhol coordination team wishes you the very best for 2013!

Hopefully, this year will see a large increase in the dynamic of the fight against cholera:

http://www.impatientoptimists.org/en/Posts/2013/01/Will-2013-Be-the-Year-of-Cholera-Prevention

The best of success to all of us in this struggle.

SimCHOLERA Project Adopted in Central African Republic

January 10, 2013

AMP (Agence de Medecine Preventive) organized a meeting to present the SimCHOLERA project to local authorities in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) on December 12, 2012.

Developed in collaboration with Africhol, SimCHOLERA is a one-year, game-based distance learning project that aims to improve health worker skills in cholera surveillance, prevention, and epidemic management in Chad and CAR.

Africhol Stool Samples From Guinea Reveal Vibrio Cholerae El Tor Variant

December 21, 2012

A first analysis of samples collected from cholera patients by the national Africhol team from the Department for Disease Control and the National Institute for Public Health in Guinea between March and August this year revealed that the strain of Vibrio cholerae (Vc) that caused the latest epidemic with 7350 cases and 138 deaths to date was a variant of serogroup O1, biotype El Tor. It is believed to have been imported from Sierra Leone where it caused 22,345 cases this year.

Press Release: AMP Organizes 3rd Consortium Meeting of the African Cholera Surveillance Network (Africhol)

December 13, 2012

Paris, France, December 13, 2012 – The Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) held its third annual Africhol consortium meeting in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from November 27-28, 2012.

Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) Holds Third Annual Africhol Consortium Meeting

November 28, 2012

AMP is holding its third annual Africhol consortium meeting in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from November 27-28, 2012.

CSQUID Joined the Africhol Consortium

November 22, 2012

The Center for Statistics & Quantitative Infectious Diseases (CSQUID) has recently joined the Africhol Consortium. The CSQUID is a joint program of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, and the University of Florida.

Africhol Meets Asian Cholera Experts

October 10, 2012

Africhol project coordinator Martin Mengel participated in the recent meeting of the “Initiative against Diarrheal and Enteric diseases in Asia” (IDEA - www.idea-asia.info) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (26-29 September 2012). The participants were high level public-health officials from 10 countries in central and east Asia concerned with the prevention and control of cholera in their countries. They presented updates on the national situation of cholera in their countries, on major achievements and challenges.

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