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INFECTIOUS DISEASES Tuberculosis and Other Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases Contact Infectious Diseases-Related Publications Nutrition Activities Nutrition Publications

The SARA Project provides technical support for the management of the Infectious Diseases Results Package of the Africa Bureau, Office of Sustainable Development. The project carries out research, analysis, information dissemination, and advocacy, emphasizing partnership and leadership capacity development with African institutions and networks in following areas: Malaria, Tuberculosis, Integrated Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Response.

SARA has supported the following activities:

  • Initiatives on the prevention of malaria in pregnancy in Africa - SARA has contributed AFR/SD/HRD-sponsored working group meetings to discuss issues and approaches for addressing malaria and pregnancy in Africa. SARA staff have worked with the interagency Malaria and Pregnancy working group to develop an advocacy brochure, Lives at Risk: Malaria and Pregnancy, designed for policy makers and maternal health program managers. A supplement on malaria and pregnancy to Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Journal were produced and distributed.
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of the Joint WHO/AFRO and USAID support for selected health programs in Africa - SARA staff and consultants have assisted with joint reviews of WHO/AFRO regional and country programs on malaria, and epidemic preparedness and response. Reports of the reviews conducted so far are available at WHO/AFRO.
  • Collaboration and Capacity Building African Institutions - SARA works with AFR/SD and its partners to promote collaboration and capacity building of African institutions in the area of infectious disease prevention and control. Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) in Bamako, Mali, WHO Regional Office for Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe, HealthScope Inc. in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania are among the African institutions and networks with which SARA has interactions.
  • Women and tuberculosis in Africa- In collaboration with HealthScope and the National Tuberculosis Control Program of Tanzania, SARA has sponsored a working group meeting in Tanzania to review and advise a study team on finalizing a study of the gender dimension of the TB epidemic in Africa. HealthScope will be conducting a pilot study in four districts in Tanzania.
  • SARA has supported a number fora organized by African partner institutions and networks for information dissemination and identification of priority infectious disease issues for consideration by AFR/SD and its development partners.