Publicador de continguts

Recerca, Salut materna, infantil i reproductiva

STREESCO

Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance in Benin and Burkina Faso for an Effective Response to COVID-19

Projecte STREESCO
Foto: Antía Figueroa
Durada
01/12/2020 - 31/05/2022
Coordinador
Institut de Recherche Clinique du Bénin
Finançadors
EDCTP (Project code: RIA2020EF-2923)
Pàgina web
https://streesco.org/

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that delayed detection of cases and clusters, a lack of awareness of the rate of spread, a high spatial extent of the pandemic, and a too weak response during the alert phase weigh heavily on the evolution of the pandemic. Sub-Saharan African countries need to generate data on COVID-19 dynamics, on the demand for care in primary health facilities and hospitals, and on the needs for health care and protective equipment and therapeutics in order to establish adequate measures.

As part of the health systems set up by Benin and Burkina Faso's health authorities, the project will develop with intended users epidemic surveillance and response system that will be effective, sensitive, coordinated, and adapted to a low-resource context. The epidemic surveillance system will be able to produce and process the ongoing information needed to execute early alerts and to control the health system's response.

The information system will be based on field epidemiological investigations, virological tests, and indicators that track action, monitoring adaptation to the epidemic, and control the response capabilities of health structures. The analysis of the data collected will bring knowledge useful for a better understanding of the epidemic dynamics. Finally, the project will promote African and European research collaboration and strengthen the capacity of African institutions to conduct an epidemic surveillance system.

The project is coordinated by the Institut de Recherche Clinique du Bénin (IRCB) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) from France. ISGlobal is the lead research organization responsible for implementing the Networking and Dissemination activities of the STREESCO project. Networking activities will be horizontal and will occur internally among project partners and externally with other COVID-19 consortia.

Total Funding

499.994,50 €

Our Team

ISGlobal Team

Altres projectes

INCENTIVE

Indo-European Consortium for Next Generation Influenza Vaccine Innovation

PROTECT

PReparing for Optimal Phase III/IV maTErnal Group B StreptococCal vaccine Trials in Africa

FLAVOBAC

Nuevas moléculas de oro coordinadas con flavonoides contra bacterias patógenas multirresistentes prioritarias

EpiGen

Building Scalable Pathogen Genomic Epidemiology in Ethiopia

ENDÈMIC

Community knowledge generation through scientific culture, urban ecology and art

HIV drug resistance (HIVDR)

Description of HIV drug resistance patterns and its association with the risk of HIV mother to child transmission among pregnant women from southern Mozambique