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Oct 23, 2025 | In the Media, News
ICAP’s founder and global director appears on The Threshold, the new podcast from Foreign Policy about the fight to end infectious diseases around the world and the innovations that could get us there. In this episode, Dr. El-Sadr recounts the history of the...
Oct 22, 2025 | News
Quality laboratory services represent a critical factor in creating strong health systems and improving health outcomes among populations threatened by infectious disease transmission. In September, Lesotho marked a milestone with the culmination of the Expanding...
Oct 22, 2025 | News
In collaboration with the National Public Health Laboratory, ICAP in South Sudan is implementing a laboratory quality improvement program among eight selected facilities across the country. After a recent audit, three of the facilities achieved important quality...
Oct 17, 2025 | News
In September 2024, after a cluster of cases was detected at two urban hospitals, Rwanda experienced the third-largest Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak on record. MVD is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. Clinically similar to Ebola Virus Disease, MVD is...
Oct 7, 2025 | News, Stories from the Field
In Zambia’s Northwestern Province, nearly 7% of the region’s 1.2 million people are living with HIV. More than half of those people – about 44,000 people – currently receive lifesaving antiretroviral therapy for HIV at 213 health facilities. As in other parts of the...
Oct 3, 2025 | News
In 2023 and 2024, Moldova observed a notable rise in salmonella cases, underscoring the urgent need for advanced tools to detect and investigate outbreaks. Salmonella is the leading cause of hospitalizations and deaths linked to foodborne illness. Resistance to...