AHRI provided in the frame work of the NIIDS project (One Health) a laboratory training for project laboratory staff from Asayta Hospital, Afar Region on the 1st and 2nd of December 2022.
The “Novel integrated infectious diseases diagnosis and surveillance system” or short NIIDS is a project run under the One Health Unit at AHRI in collaboration with Swiss TPH, the Ethiopian Refugee and Returnee Services (RRS) and our local partner the Asayta Hospital.
The project aims at collate evidence on NCDs, mental and reproductive health and nutrition deficiencies and identify the most clinically relevant infectious diseases among Eritrean refugees and host community of Asayta. These data serve as a basis upon novel diagnostic platforms will be assessed and validated, covering molecular diagnostics, and serology.