Following an assessment completed early in 2020, In May 2020, eHealth Africa was awarded a contract by the CDC Foundation to implement recommended upgrades to ICT, power, and data systems at the NRL and NCDC. The scope of work was viewed as critical to ensure that NCDC and its staff would be able to store, manage, access, and analyze MBA data as part of its integrated National Serosurveillance in Nigeria project.

Key Outcome:

To improve the capacity of NCDC/NRL to conduct serosurveillance through improved infrastructure. 

Key Outputs:

1. Power system upgraded

2. ICT system upgraded

3. Data response system developed

4. Training completed

These upgrades would help to improve the day to day work of NCDC/NRL by:

• Reducing energy/power consumption and costs

• Improving consistency of power availability 

• Improving safety (through equipment upgrades)

• Improving network capacity (speed/availability/latency) 

• Increasing server capacity

• Improving the "data approver" and “data requester” experience through the data response system.

As an implementing partner, we will;

• Implement upgrades to Power and IT Infrastructure at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) and Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC)

• Design, develop a data response system to be deployed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for people requesting serosurveillance data

• Provide training to NRL/NCDC Data, Power and IT teams to enable them effectively manage upgraded IT/Power/Data systems.