EPN - with technical support from the USAID supported MSH/SPS programme - conducted a successful Francophone workshop on AMR and Infection Control in Rwanda, from November 23rd to 27th 2009. The workshop was attended by mainly medical doctors and pharmacists from Rwanda, Benin, Togo, DRC, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad, 4 participants from MSH/SPS Rwanda and a representative from the Pharmacy Task Force (PTF)/Ministry of Health Rwanda.

The USAID programme Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) developed an Infection Control Assessment Tool, which provides an approach that can be used by hospital staff to identify and solve infection control problems economically and practically in low-resource health care facilities.

Participants shared experiences on AMR and Infection Control from their countries. SPS's Infection Control Self Assessment Tool was applied in a successful field visit to Kibagagaba Hospital in Kigali where the participants covered 4 modules. The participants found the workshop relevant and the ICAT tool very useful and were ready to implement the ICAT in their own settings.

Below you can download the workshop presentation, report and other outputs.

•  ICAT Kigali presentation (878.44 kB) (in French)
•  Infection Control Assessment Tool (1.35 MB)
•  Infection Control Assessment Tool user manual (117.84 kB)
•  Rwanda workshop report (725.12 kB) (in French)

Click here to see some pictures of the event. 

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