Benin
Duration
2022-2026
Lead institutions
Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM)
Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD)
Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries (LRM)
Academic partners
Liselotte Hardy (ITM)
Jean-Paul Dossou (CERRHUD)
Dissou Affolabi (LRM)
Project status
Ongoing
General objective
To strengthen the institutional capacity of LRM and CERRHUD, allowing them to contribute to improved health service delivery for bacterial bloodstream infections, tuberculosis and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Benin.
Summary
This programme envisages the creation of a country-wide network to monitor antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to report this information to the national level, while the already existing national tuberculosis network will be continued. To enable the institutes to keep up with the trend towards digitalisation, bioinformatics capacities in both partners will be strengthened. In addition, research capacity is being improved through PhD trajectories and methodological short courses, while blended course modules target health staff, district level managers and policy makers.
Research projects focus on the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis, AMR and on the policy context of sexual and reproductive health, and aim to contribute to the elaboration of evidence-based health policies and strategies in the country.
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