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By Parysa Oskouipour on July 1, 2020

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Zambia has experienced low reporting rates of AEFI

Zambia has experienced low reporting rates of AEFIs during the roll out COVID-19 vaccines. To help improve this situation, Akros Research, through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods program (an initiative of the @AfricaCDC in partnership with the @MastercardFoundation) supported the EPI unit to conduct safety surveillance training sessions for Pharmacists and Surveillance officers from three provinces in Zambia: Muchinga (pictured above), Northern, and Luapula. 140 provincial and district staff were trained as trainers. After this training, Akros will provide resources to cascade their knowledge to the relevant staff members at the facility level to help improve AEFI reporting. Over time, EPI and Akros are monitoring the situation to assess improvements.

Ensuring Djibouti’s equitable access to safe and

Ensuring Djibouti’s equitable access to safe and efficacious vaccines requires global action and financial support. In December 2022, Akros Research supported the Djibouti MOH to set up a new safety surveillance system. This support was provided under the safety surveillance component of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods program, an initiative of @AfricaCDC in partnership with @MastercardFoundation. The support includes capacity building of staff from various regions and developing and producing AEFI data guidelines and monitoring tools. The Djibouti MOH welcomes the new reporting channel.

@AfricaCDC and @MastercardFoundation's Saving Live

@AfricaCDC and @MastercardFoundation's Saving Lives and Livelihoods program has begun support for safety surveillance strengthening in Somalia! Akros is working with the Somalia MOH to scale up adverse event reporting for COVID-19 vaccines. Here the assessment team meets with the staff at Hegan Health Facility in South West State.

The @AfricaCDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods progra

The @AfricaCDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods program, in partnership with @MastercardFoundation, is supporting the Ministry of Health in Somalia, through its implementing partner Akros, to assess and strengthen AEFI data systems. The assessment team is engaged here with officials at the Hegan Health Facility in Yaqshid District.

We were happy to round out the year by meeting wit

We were happy to round out the year by meeting with our INFORM partners at the NIH DS-I Africa consortia meeting in South Africa at the end of 2022. Now in its second year of operation, the NIH INFORM consortium aims to pull together COVID-19 and HIV data streams, as well as genomic data, epidemiological data sets, spatial mobility data, and environmental and socioeconomic data from across a few different projects and analyze them geospatially. It was great to convene in person, and we're eager to share data insights discovered through this partnership.

We also want to wish a belated warm welcome to ano

We also want to wish a belated warm welcome to another key new staff member. Naomi Assegied has joined Akros Research as a Country Manager under the Africa CDC and Mastercard Foundation Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative. She is based in Ethiopia and will be supporting implementation in Ethiopia and a few other East African countries. Welcome, Naomi!

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