The EpiC project offers technical assistance to prevent, prepare for, respond to and bolster health systems to address COVID-19. Currently, EpiC is implementing COVID-19 activities in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.
Sofía Córdova, Regional Program Manager, PSI Centro AméricaAndrea Surette, Knowledge Management Technical Advisor, FHI 360Emily Headrick, MSN, FNP, Clinical Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Medical oxygen is a vital therapy for treating patients with COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, surgical and maternity patients, and children with pneumonia. As with any essential medicine, safety is an important […]
Agness John, Senior Technical Officer, Communications and Knowledge Management Despite improvements in COVID-19 vaccine availability in Tanzania, reaching key and vulnerable populations (KPs), including female sex workers (FSWs), remains a challenge. Female sex workers are often highly mobile and have close interactions and physical contact, placing them at higher risk of acquiring COVID-19 than the […]
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The USAID-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project recently hosted a webinar in commemoration of World Pneumonia Day. Panelists discussed priorities for expanding access to COVID-19 services through strengthening healtah systems in low- and middle-income countries. This webinar featured lessons learned and best practices on integrating COVID-19 care across the continuum, from the […]
Emily Headrick, MSN, FNP, Clinical Technical Advisor, FHI 360Andrea Surette, Technical Advisor for Knowledge Management, FHI 360 Featured image: Dr. Luis Bayo shares approaches to increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Uganda at a meeting convened by FHI 360 and the EpiC project in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo credit: EpiC After COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in […]
Agness John, Senior Technical Officer, FHI 360Andrea Surette, Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Featured image: Tanzania’s Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu, promotes COVID-19 vaccination at a music event hosted by the health promotion unit in partnership with USAID’s EpiC project. Photo by Agness John, FHI 360. Tanzania Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu and several Bongo Flava […]
Huong T. Chu, Senior Project Officer, Coordination and Knowledge Rachel S. Coley, Technical Advisor & Project Manager, EpiC Vietnam Dr. Lopa Basu, Senior HIV and TB Advisor, USAID/Vietnam Featured Image: Dr. Duong Duy Khoa spoke about his own mental health challenges while working in the COVID-19 frontline response during an EpiC-supported webinar. “[After some time […]
Huong T. Chu, Senior Project Officer, Coordination & Knowledge Rachel S. Coley, Technical Advisor & Project Manager, EpiC Vietnam When the COVID-19 Delta variant arrived in Vietnam last summer, more than 18 months of successful measures to reduce transmission, including mask use and social distancing, failed to contain it. Hospitals quickly became overwhelmed with critical […]
Carolyne A. Akello, FHI 360Christopher Akolo, FHI 360Timothy Mastro, FHI 360 This post was first published on FHI 360’s R&E Search for Evidence. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 25.3 million (67%) of the global total of 37.7 million people living with HIV infection (UNAIDS 2021). To control the epidemic in Africa, it is essential that […]
Andrea Surette, FHI 360 Theresia Mrema, FHI 360 Waziri Nyoni, FHI 360 Tanzania started rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations in July 2021 with a national goal of vaccinating 60 percent of the country’s 58 million people by June 2022. To address persistent vaccine hesitancy among the general population, the Ministry of Health (MOH) received technical assistance […]
The USAID and PEPFAR-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project; Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) project; and Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources (STAR) project are hosting a webinar series, COVID-19 clinical updates for global practice. Webinar resources are provided in the links below. Webinar 1: Review of oral therapeutics for COVID-19 […]
