The world celebrates World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 annually. A day set aside to commemorate the astounding discovery of the TB bacillus by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. Today, World TB Day represents more than a commemoration of a discovery. It serves as a poignant reminder of the ongoing global epidemic of TB, […]
For the first time, Mozambique hosted on the 5thof April 2024 a meeting to discuss a pilot study with the objective of implementing target Next Generation Sequencing (tNGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) as a diagnostic tool to be integrated in the National Health System of Mozambique, for further use on patient management care. The […]
The Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) of Mozambique part of the Pathogen Genomics (PanGen) consortium hosted a Bioinformatics training between 02nd – 11thApril 2024. This training was part of the activities for implementing Pathogen Genomics in Mozambique. The 07-days training held by the Research Centre of Borstel (RCB), Germany focused on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) […]
As part of the capacity-building activities of the 1st PANGenS in person kick-off meeting, a bioinformatics training was held for bioinformaticians/ research assistants of the PANGenS consortium. Participants were from both Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana (NMIMR-UG) and some of the participating African countries (i.e., Namibia, Gabon, Mozambique, Togo, Nigeria, Tanzania, […]
The Pan-Africa Network for Genomic Surveillance of Poverty Related Disease and Emerging Pathogens (PANGenS) project which officially began in July 2023, has held its first in-person meeting at the Noguchi Memorial institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana. The meeting, held on 16th January, 2024 brought together a consortia of 15 countries; 12 in […]