NeoNET Africa Seminar Series 2026: From Detection to Prevention: Surveillance and IPC in Neonatal Sepsis

Dear colleagues,

Dear colleagues,

NeoIPC invites you to join next NeoNET Africa Seminar Series 2026:

From Detection to Prevention: Surveillance and IPC in Neonatal Sepsis

📅 23 July 2026
🕒 15:00 – 16:00 SAST

💻 Online
🔗 Register here 

This one-hour online session brings together leading experts across Africa to explore how surveillance data can drive effective infection prevention and improve neonatal sepsis outcomes.

Seminar Programme Highlights:

• Chair – Dr Felicity Fitzgerald (Imperial College London / The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe)

• Lessons learned in setting up neonatal sepsis surveillance in African Hospitals – Dr Christina Obiero (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)

• Use of an IPC bundle to reduceKlebsiella infection in three hospitals Uganda – Dr Victoria Nakibuuka (Nsambya Hospital,Uganda)

• The NeoIPC toolkit: simplifying surveillance for healthcare-associated infections in neonates globally  – Prof Angela Dramowski (NeoNET AFRICA / Stellenbosch University, South Africa)