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Table 2 2009 Capacity-Building Initiatives by Major Regional AFHSC-GEIS Supported Partners and Type

From: Capacity-building efforts by the AFHSC-GEIS program

Partner (see text)

Type of Infrastructure/Capacity Building*

Centers/Hospitals

Field Sites

Countries*

AFRIMS

Influenza & malaria/MDR labs (KH, PH); enteric & influenza lab upgrade (NP, TH); blood culture (NP); influenza testing (BT); influenza antiviral resistance (TH)

22

51

5

NAMRU-2

Malaria, FVBI, enteric, blood culture & AMR testing (KH); influenza & AFI testing (ID, KH, SG); surveillance data management (LA)

4

73

4

NAMRU-3

Influenza, blood culture & AMR testing (EG, JO); Influenza PCR/culture & antiviral resistance testing (32 countries); Joint Biological Agent Identification & Detection System (5 deployed US military sites-CENTCOM**); zoonotic disease & entomology (EG, DJ); AFI, blood/cerebrospinal spinal fluid culture & serology testing (AZ, GE); Leishmania PCR & culture (EG, LR); rotavirus testing (6 countries); cholera & other ADD testing (7 countries); FVBI testing (EG, DJ, AZ, GE)

37

42

34

NMRCD-Peru

Influenza PCR/culture & antiviral resistance testing support (10 countries); AFI & viral culture & serology testing (PE, BO, EC, PY); Leishmania PCR, MDR, urine/vaginal PCR-STIs, Rickettsial PCR & culture (PE); enteric culture, PCR & AMR testing (PE, EC, PY); Alerta electronic disease surveillance system (PE, PA, EC)

23

102

11

USAMRU-Kenya

Malaria/MDR, microscopy & PCR, rotavirus, cholera & other ADD testing, arboviral/VHF PCR & culture, AFIs, blood culture & serology testing, STIs culture (KE); influenza PCR, culture &genotyping (KE, UG, CM); influenza, AFI, FVBI, cholera & other ADDs (KE, TZ, NG)

7

69

5

PHCR-South

Influenza PCR, culture & indirect immunofluorescence assay (US, HN, SV, NI, GT, PA); malaria, Leishmania, & dengue PCR testing (HN)

4

7

6

Univ Iowa CEID

Respiratory & other zoonotic respiratory EID testing & epidemiology (US, TH, KH, NG, RO, MN)

6

~30

6

JHU/APL

Influenza military treatment facilities (PIPM) modeling (US); SMS text & ESSENCE Desktop edition system (PH); Open source Interactive Voice Recognition software surveillance (PE); OpenESSENCE website software surveillance (US, PE); SMS text (PH)

1

~125

3

  1. Acronyms: MDR, multidrug resistance; FVBI, febrile & vector-borne illnesses; AMR, antimicrobial resistance; AFI, acute febrile illnesses (such as dengue, leptospirosis and zoonotic infections); PCR, polymerase chain reaction; ADD, acute diarrheal diseases (such as traveler’s diarrhea, campylobacter, shigellosis, salmonellosis); STIs, sexually transmitted infections, including Neisseria gonorrhea; EID, emerging infectious diseases; PIPM, Pandemic Influenza Prevention Modeling; SMS, Short Message Service; ESSENCE, Electronic Syndromic Surveillance for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics.
  2. * Country names are displayed in parenthesis using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 3166) two-character code (URL: http://www.commondatahub.com/live/geography/country/iso_3166_country_codes?gclid=CPSnst2e5KQCFQqP5god3xzd8A); Countries column represents the number where activities have been implemented; U.S. military deployment sites (such as Iraq, Afghanistan) or U.S. Department of State embassies do not contribute to separate country counts, since they represent overseas locations where U.S. forces and/or civilians are deployed or stationed.
  3. ** CENTCOM, U.S. Central Command (forward U.S. troop deployment sites).