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Support project for pandemic action research and establishment of the African response to the COVID-19 pandemic - ARIACOV

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $2,380,400

  • Funder

    AFD

  • Principal Investigator

    Unspecified Unspecified Unspecified

  • Research Location

    Benin, Cameroon
    …

  • Lead Research Institution

    Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    Diagnostics

  • Special Interest Tags

    Data Management and Data Sharing

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Health Personnel

Abstract

The project's goal is to support national governments in developing and strengthening national response strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic in six western and central African countries by mobilizing action-research tools and resources. It has three components: - Implementing number of activities including training and the provision of equipment and supplies to perform large-scale diagnoses of the virus as well as sero-epidemic surveys; - Modeling and conducting epidemiological surveys; - Setting up or reinforcing data-collection mechanisms (media, social networks) possibly paired with qualitative/ethnographic surveys to better understand how people and health personnel perceive COVID-19, as well as assessing government response measures.