September 2026
On the 24th July 2025, NeoNET AFRICA wrapped up its seminar series on neonatal outbreaks in Africa. This last session shifted the conversation from spotting outbreaks to actually stopping them. Speakers from South Africa, the UK and Uganda walked through five years of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella at a Cape Town hospital, made the case for treating kangaroo care and probiotics as real infection prevention tools, and explained why hospital cleaning so often falls short when it's treated as basic housekeeping rather than a clinical intervention.
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August 2026
The second seminar of the 2026 NeoNET AFRICA series, held on 23 July, followed one line of argument across three talks: you cannot prevent what you are not measuring, and measurement only helps if it is simple enough to sustain. Speakers covered lessons from building neonatal sepsis surveillance across African hospitals, the measured impact of an infection prevention bundle in two Kampala neonatal units, and the free NeoIPC toolkit that lets any neonatal unit start tracking healthcare-associated infections.
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August 2026
The 2026 NeoNET AFRICA seminar series opened on 14 May with a session about people rather than pathogens. Speakers from Uganda and Zimbabwe described what it takes to engage parents and frontline staff as partners: building parent support groups and navigating consent for trials in critically ill newborns, co-designing infection control with the mothers and nurses who live with it, and understanding how parents recognise neonatal sepsis and decide where to seek help.
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August 2026
NeoNET AFRICA and the KlebNET Genomic Surveillance Platform met on 26 November 2025 to ask what genomic data can do for neonatal sepsis, and what has to be in place before it can. Speakers covered how much sepsis is acquired inside neonatal units, how many antigens a Klebsiella pneumoniae vaccine would need to cover, a new metadata standard built specifically for neonatal sepsis surveillance, and what African laboratories actually have to work with.
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August 2026
The second session in the NeoNET AFRICA outbreak series, held on 19 June 2025, moved from describing outbreaks to catching them. Speakers from Switzerland, the UK and South Africa covered what whole-genome sequencing revealed about a two year Klebsiella outbreak in a Swiss NICU, how to sample a neonatal environment so the results mean something, and what a microbiology laboratory can and cannot tell you about an outbreak in progress.
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August 2026
The opening session of the NeoNET AFRICA seminar series on neonatal outbreaks, held on 15 May 2025, asked where neonatal infections actually come from. Speakers from Uganda, Ethiopia and the UK presented evidence that early-onset sepsis is not always vertically transmitted, that an under-recognised pathogen is driving deaths in eastern Ethiopia, and that outbreaks in low-resource neonatal units follow patterns worth mapping.
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