Luanda, 28 July 2025 – In response to Angola’s ongoing cholera outbreak, a two-week practising programme has brought together national and global abilities to beef up the country’s potential in laboratory diagnostics and epidemiological surveillance. The initiative used to be led by the German Epidemic Preparedness Staff (SEEG) in collaboration with the World Wisely being Group (WHO) and the Ministry of Wisely being.
The practising, hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Investigação em Saúde (INIS) with toughen from the Directorate of Public Wisely being for the surveillance part, mixed intensive laboratory and surveillance durations. Experts from SEEG establishments, together with the Robert Koch Institute, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Treatment, and Institut Pasteur as successfully as from WHO, worked facet-by-facet with Angolan professionals to enhance diagnostic capabilities for cholera and beef up integration of laboratory files into national successfully being files systems.
Over 40 professionals had been educated, together with bigger than 20 from INIS and 2 laboratory technicians from Cuanza Sul, who participated in hands-on laboratory durations centered on cholera diagnostics the use of culture and molecular biology programs, antimicrobial resistance trying out, biosafety, quality set up watch over, and cryoconservation of cholera traces eventually of the first week. This used to be followed in the second week by practising for twenty-four professionals from DNSP-Luanda on surveillance ways similar to DHIS2 dashboard use, neighborhood-basically basically based mostly surveillance, and GIS mapping.
This Coaching of Trainers (ToT) contrivance ensures that participants are in actuality equipped to cascade their files across Angola. As an instantaneous kill end result, WHO, with toughen from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Support Operations and the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund, will facilitate notice-up practising, bringing laboratory workers from a couple of provinces to INIS. This next half will very much decentralize diagnostic potential and beef up national surveillance systems.
The success of this initiative highlights the payment of multisectoral collaboration. SEEG’s medium-term technical toughen complements WHO’s ongoing emergency response efforts, aligning with Angola’s national priorities for epidemic preparedness and resilient successfully being systems.
