Global Stories: Training Infection Prevention and Control Specialists in Nigeria

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• Personal Author:
  Nigeria
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Healthcare personnel in Nigeria save lives every day and put their lives
  
  at risk when caring for patients with
  
  deadly infections, such as Ebola and Lassa fever. Infection prevention and control measures—such as isolating potentially infectious patients, improving handwashing, and using protective equipment—can
  
  keep these healthcare personnel safe. Although some hospitals in Nigeria have specialists responsible for ensuring that these measures are in place, few of these specialists are appropriately trained to serve in this role. To fill this need for training, Nigerian infection prevention and control experts are working with CDC’s International Infection Control Program (IICP) in the Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion out of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and other international partners.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Capacity Building Disease Outbreaks Epidemiology/education Global Health Health Personnel International Cooperation
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  NCEZID
• Division:
  NCEZID_OD
• Collection(s):
  Historical CDC.gov Content
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3288e5be18821b049c0ddd06c694a0d11e2fda54c8f4dfc790861d769086edb1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/135267/cdc_135267_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.91 MB ]