Laboratory
Jun 27, 2024 | News
Resistance to antiretroviral drugs is a serious problem that can lead to dire consequences for individuals of living with HIV as well as impede critical progress toward epidemic control. Now, Tanzania has a major new tool for monitoring HIV drug resistance. The newly...
Jun 26, 2024 | In the Media
ICAP country director Haruka Maruyama said the establishment of the HIV drug resistance testing laboratory is an important step to ensuring the quality of HIV services in the Lake Zone regions and nearby regions of...
May 23, 2024 | News
With the global COVID-19 pandemic still fresh in mind, and future pandemics and more localized epidemics an ever-looming threat, countries around the world are taking steps to increase preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks. Against this backdrop, a new set of...
Mar 26, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
An ICAP-supported disease surveillance team in Kenya successfully identified and reported a new human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in northern Kenya, leading the country’s Ministry of Health to declare an outbreak on January 24, 2024. RVF is an acute hemorrhagic...
Mar 19, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, international public health experts knew the country and its neighbors would soon face an invisible crisis in addition to the destruction and mass casualties of war: the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)....