The ICARS-funded project, “Preventing the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from Wastewater through Urban Agriculture in Cameroon,” reached a major milestone with the training of data collectors and the completion of an intensive field data collection phase. The session began with a specialized three-day training session launched on March 16, 2026, at the Faculty of…
The IMPACTING project (Integrated Multi-vector-borne diseases Platform to Assess how Global Change impacts Transmission using Innovative systems modeling, Novel monitoring tools, and transmission blockinG micro-organisms) was officially launched in September 2025. The kick-off meeting took place at the Duduville Campus of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenya. Funded by…
This fellowship project, awarded to Dr. Frédy Brice Nemg Simo, post-doctoral researcher at CRID, addresses the critical public health challenge of non-malarial and non-typhoid Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) in Cameroon. AFI is simply a sudden fever whose cause is not malaria or typhoid, often remaining unexplained because of limited diagnostic capacity. Cases of AFI have…