by stephen | Sep 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
World Patient Safety Day was established in 2019 by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly through theadoption of resolution WHA72.6 – “Global action on patient safety”. The Day is firmly grounded in thefundamental principle of medicine – first do no harm. World...
by stephen | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, 20th July 2021 marks yet another significant milestone in the fight against covid-19 epidemic in the Gambia as we witnessed the arrival of One Hundred and Fifty-One Thousand, Two Hundred (151, 200) doses of the Johnson and Jonson (J&J) Vaccine under...
by stephen | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Brazzaville/Conakry – Health authorities in Guinea today confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in the southern Gueckedou prefecture. This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country, and...
by stephen | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Abidjan/Brazzaville – The Ministry of Health of Cote d’Ivoire today confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola since 1994. This came after the Institut Pasteur in Cote d’Ivoire confirmed the Ebola Virus Disease in samples collected from a patient, who was...
by stephen | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
As COVID-19 case numbers in Africa climb faster than all earlier peaks, new and faster spreading variants are fuelling the continent’s surging third wave. Cases have increased in Africa for six weeks running and rose by 25% week-on-week to almost 202 000...
by stephen | Jul 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Greetings,Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (ARIC) is an affiliated journal of ICPIC, and we are writing to give you an update on the journal’s year so far. Infection control has been on everyone’s minds this year, and there has been a lot of research to...
