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...
by stephen | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
While the 2014–2016 deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa devastated lives and wrecked health services, it also offered pivotal lessons in outbreak control by stoking swift and more effective response as well as driving progress in vaccines and therapeutics. When the...
by stephen | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Ebola outbreak that erupted in Guinea in early 2021 was declared over on 19 June, just four months after the first cases were confirmed in a rural community in the south of the country. Banking on the lessons learned from the deadly 2014–2016 outbreak as well as a...
by stephen | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Although Cholera is a preventable disease, it remains a significant public health problem globally. Each year, there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide. Zambia has experienced cholera outbreaks since 1977 and the country’s...
by stephen | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the continent witnessed at the start of 2021. COVID-19 cases have risen for five consecutive weeks since the...
