Nigeria: Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control - Strengthening Nigeria's Local Capacity to Lead the Lassa Fever Response

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Strengthening Nigeria's Local Capacity to Lead the Lassa Fever Response: Nigeria

The driveway in the grounds of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital is large and welcoming and as you enter the hospital premises, the hospital's motto: 'Patient is Supreme' catches the eye. The hospital was founded in 1993 to manage viral haemorrhagic fever including Lassa fever and over the years, it has since grown in capacity and expertise.

Their actions have always been driven by the desire to build Nigeria's capacity to respond to Lassa fever and other disease outbreaks."The philosophy to indigenise capacity is clearly written in the policy statement; we want indigenous capacity to be built for an aggregate response to Lassa fever and other diseases," Professor Sylvanus Okogbenin, Chief Medical Director, ISTH, clearly stated.

The institute is also a supporting partner on the 'Enable' research programme; the largest ever Lassa fever research programme in West Africa, funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations . The two-year research study started in 2020 in five outbreak prone countries - Nigeria, Benin, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Dr.

 

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