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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...
Sep 24, 2025 | News
A unique model for integrating wraparound health services into early childhood development settings in Sierra Leone has received a promising boost thanks to an investment from UNICEF. The Early Childhood Development (ECD) Unit under Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic...
Sep 19, 2025 | News
ICAP in Kenya is supporting the country to revolutionize public health through a set of digital tools capable of integrating, synthesizing, and visualizing health surveillance data from multiple sources. With support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 8, 2025 | News
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant challenge to health care systems worldwide and is a growing public health concern in Armenia. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the use of antibiotics in Armenia increased significantly; patient misuse,...