Today we attended a roundtable for the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Curriculum Development Project. University of Lagos College of Medicine, Exxon Mobile, US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), CDC Foundation, and Project HOPE have come together to develop a standardized curriculum for infection prevention in Nigeria. So what’s the IPC curriculum all about? The…
#HackTheGerms Innovation Competition: 2017 Finalists
The #HackTheGerms Innovation Competition is over and we’ve selected 3 finalists. Read on to learn about them. We received LOTS of great submissions for the #HackTheGerms Innovation Competition! Not just from Nigeria but people submitted ideas from Pakistan, South Africa, Guinea, Kenya, and Tanzania. Some people submitted alone and others submitted as a team. We…
Integrating Infection Prevention and Control into Healthcare Delivery: National Conference on Infection Control (NCIC) 2017
From November 23rd – 24th we attended and participated in the National Conference on Infection Control (NCIC) in Abuja. The conference was hosted by the Nigeria Infection Control Association (NICA). The conference theme was Integrating Infection Prevention and Control into Healthcare Delivery: A National Priority. Why all the focus on preventing infections in healthcare delivery?…
Preparing Lagos State General Hospitals to Manage Outbreaks of Deadly Viral Infections
Lagos, Nigeria — Today, the Lagos State Government and the Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust conducted training for health workers in General Hospitals in the State towards increasing their capacity to identify and promptly manage patients during outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. In a statement issued on Friday November 17, 2017 by the…
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2017: Social Sector Dialogue and #HackTheGerms Competition Pitch
To celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) – the world’s largest celebration for entrepreneurship that occurs every year in November – we participated in a social sector dialogue event hosted by the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) . The goal of GEW is to celebrate creativity and innovation and this Social Sector Dialogue was focused on using…