It all started from an experience of around 20 years of the activity of hydroxychloroquine on viruses. With the COVID-19 epidemic in China and with in vivo tests of the activity of this molecule on COVID-19, Professor Didier Raoult decided to carry out a pragmatic test on patients who are naive to any treatment. These…
It is a boon to have a P3 laboratory with the required standards at the Iressef and an improved P3 being finalized which is almost the equivalent of a P4 laboratory. A level 3 laboratory is designed to handle class 3 infectious agents (cause serious illness in humans and in animals, risk of spread in…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it is immediately committing $ 100 million to the global response to the 2019 coronavirus epidemic (2019-nCov). Of this amount, $ 20 million has been allocated to strengthen protection populations at risk in Africa. This brings the foundation’s total commitment to Africa to the 2019-nCov epidemic…
Dr. Moustapha Mbow of the iressef designated scientific rising star. It was distinguished at the annual meeting called “big challenge” held in Addis Ababa from 27 to 30 October 2019. The big challenge is an initiative that brings together the scientific world that aims to equip and empower innovators to solve the problems of health…
1- INTRODUCTION The Institut De Recherche En Santé De Surveillance Épidémiologique Et De Formation (IRESSEF), through funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), is working to identify a partner that is based in and operating in South Africa to support the implementation of the scope of work for this Revised…
John Martin President of Gilead Sciences has been honored by his company and its strategic partners including IRESSEF led by Professor Souleymane Mboup. A ceremony in his honor was held on August 22 in San Francisco. This celebration gave the opportunity to its employees to pay a tribute to it and to magnify the 29…
The Institut De Recherche En Santé De Surveillance Épidémiologique Et De Formation (IRESSEF), on behalf of the Pan-African Consortium (PAC), is pleased to announce an open recruitment for the Lab-Corps Fellows Program. The Program was developed to promote laboratory medicine practice among young laboratory professionals to support efforts of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…
1 INTRODUCTION The Institut de Recherche en Santé de Surveillance Épidémiologique et de Formation (IRESSEF), through funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), is working to identify a partner to support, manage and possibly improve and existing open source Proficiency Testing (PT) data collection, management and analysis program. This is…
Vendela Herdell and Philipp Lassarén are Swedish medical students from Karolinska Institutet visiting IRESSEF. Vendela is a research assistant at Emotion Lab, with a great interest in public health. Therefore she decided to spend a couple of weeks at IRESSEF during her summer off from medical school to learn more about how it is to…
Request for Proposals – Selection of Contractors/Vendors June 2019 1- INTRODUCTION The Institut De Recherche En Santé De Surveillance Épidémiologique Et De Formation (IRESSEF), through funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), would like to introduce an open source electronic system for tracking and monitoring specimen turn-around time (TAT) in…
