Annual Liaison Council of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) held its annual Liaison Council under the presidency of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Professor MAM Bunheng and in presence of Mr Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedo, Director of International Affairs of Institut Pasteur (Paris), on May 23, 2023. On this occasion … Read more
TB-Speed Research Project: National Symposium for the Restitution of Results, July 5 and 6, 2022 The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge and the Cambodian National Tuberculosis Program, together with the TB-Speed consortium are organizing a national restitution symposium of the TB-Speed Project results in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 5 and 6, 2022, in the presence … Read more
Annual Liaison Council of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on May 24th, 2022 The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) held its annual Liaison Council under the presidency of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Professor MAM Bunheng and in presence of Professor Stewart Cole, President of Institut Pasteur (Paris), on May 24th. On this occasion … Read more
The IPC held its annual Liaison Council under the Presidency of His Excellency the Minister of Health, Prof MAM Bunheng, on May 27th 2021.
Between January 28th and February 11th 2021, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) held its fourth Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Given the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was conducted virtually.
Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, is a hotspot of emerging and endemic infectious diseases, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has been integral in searching for and combating these pathogens since its inception.
The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) remains fully committed to working together with the Ministry of Health to combat COVID-19 in Cambodia. As of 26 October 2020, IPC has performed more than 100,000 (one hundred thousand) COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests by RT-PCR in the Virology Unit.
The COVID-19 pandemic once again draws attention on zoonotic diseases and their impact on public health. Over the last 20 years three of the major epidemics (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – MERS and the COVID-19) shows that potential transmission of pathogens from animal to humans are a serious threat to public health.