IPC - Infection Prevention and Control
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 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,...
Jan 16, 2025 | News
Hand hygiene is a core approach to reducing health care-associated infections and ensuring patient safety during medical care. In Ukraine, however, the Ukrainian Public Health Center (UPHC) found that 44.3 percent of health care workers lack effective hand rubbing...
Feb 21, 2024 | News
Since October 2023, Zambia has been shocked by a major cholera outbreak that has now infected more than 18,000 and killed more than 600 people, the deadliest outbreak on record for the southern African country. Tapped by the Ministry of Health to help address the...
Oct 20, 2023 | News
In September, the first cohort of trainees graduated from ICAP’s Infection Prevention and Control Advanced Training Program, a six-month advanced, competency-based certificate course that enables health care workers in Ethiopia to deepen their knowledge, skills, and...