Description
SACIDS is a One Health consortium of medical, veterinary, academic and research
institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals in partnership with
centers of research in industrialized countries. SACIDS has reinforced intersectoral
collaboration at the national level by forming virtual centers for infectious diseases
known as National Centres for Infectious Disease Surveillance (NatCIDS). So far
SACIDS has focused on four main areas: training a cadre of One Health scientists in
molecular biology or analytical epidemiology, pursing theme driven One Health
research, fostering the sharing of expertise and resources across consortium institutions,
and examining approaches and technologies that have the potential for improving the
efficiency of disease alerts and surveillance.
Purpose
To harness innovation in science and technology in order to improve southern Africa’s
capacity (including human, financial and physical) to detect, identify and monitor
infectious diseases of humans, animals, plants and their interactions in order to better
manage the risk posed by them.
Scope Regional - Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and
Tanzania
Primary Funders
The Rockefeller Foundation, Google.org, The Wellcome Trust, and the Nuclear Threat
Initiative’s (NTI) Global Health and Security Initiative (GHSI).
Participants & Key Collaborators
The University of London Colleges that comprise the London International
Development Center (LIDC), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
Definition of One Health
A collaborative effort between natural sciences and social sciences to advance the
understanding of interactions between humans, animals and the environment to
improve public and animal health.
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy
(unknown)
Sources of Information
Website: http://www.sacids.org
SACIDS Briefing:
http://www.sacids.org/kms/resources/BRIEFING%20NOTE%20ON%20SACIDS%20April2011.pdf
Contact SACIDS Secretariat
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
