1. News | 2016.07.25

   Health and Climate: Airborne dust and high temperatures are risk factors for invasive bacterial disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Jean-Marc Collard (1) and Jean-François Jusot, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the results of a study demonstrating the association between meningitis and climate variations in sub- Saharan Africa.Conducted while they were stationed in CERMES (Niger) in collaboration with the National Directorate of Meteorological of Niger and the University of Liverpool, this study...

2. News | 2016.07.25

   A new lease of life for the Institut Pasteur in Bangui

   Since the end of 2015 and the cool down of the political crisis marked by the election in February of the new President of the Central African Republic, Prof. Faustin Archange Touadéra, the Institut Pasteur in Bangui has seen a significant resumption in all its activities.Despite successive political crisis and three civil wars, that raged for the past 15 years in the country, the Institut...

3. Article | 2017.01.04

   Medical information

   Up-to-date DT Polio vaccination is recommended with boosters at 25, 45, 65.For some classes you may require additional vaccinations prior to attendance. Please check the course description on the website.Students with a chronic medical condition or pregnant women are requested to seek advice from their family physician about any possible risks associated with attending classes...

4. News | 2016.07.20

   Malnutrition, a priority for the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar

   Interview with Rindra Randremanana, epidemiologist, deputy-head of the epidemiology unit and leader of the nutrition theme at the Institut Pasteur of Madagascar.Many children suffer from malnutrition in Madagascar?Malnutrition is one of the worst threat to child health in our country. Despite the establishment, for several years, of prevention and control programs, chronic malnutrition still...

5. News | 2016.07.05

   Creation of the Pasteur Japan Foundation

   Since 15 June, the Foundation Pasteur Japan was officially created and succeeds Association Pasteur Japan whose scholarship program allowed for 11 years to host Japanese young scientists at the Institut Pasteur.Located in Tokyo, the new foundation's objectives is to encourage research, public health and facilitate the dissemination to the general public of scientific knowledge in the life...

6. News | 2016.07.05

   A Franco-Chinese scientific symposium on infectious diseases at the Institut Pasteur

   A Franco-Chinese scientific symposium on infectious diseases at the Institut Pasteur. The Institut Pasteur welcomed on Friday, July 1st a large delegation of Chinese scientists and officials including the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prof Tan Tieniu.The visit, which took place in the context of the Franco-Chinese high-level dialogue on human and cultural exchanges, was...

7. News | 2016.05.17

   The Institut Pasteur in Bangui welcomes French and Central African Presidents

   On his way to the security summit in Abuja, Francois Hollande, President of the French Republic stopped Friday, May 13, 2016 in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic. For his third visit to the country since the beginning of his term, President Hollande visited the Institut Pasteur in Bangui with President Faustin-Archange Touadera, his newly elected Central African counterpart.The...

8. News | 2016.02.29

   Visit of the French President to the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo​

   The French President François Hollande was received at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo on February 25, 2016 by the President of the Executive Board, Ricardo Ehrlich and the Executive Director of the Institute Pasteur, Luis Barbeito with Uruguayan Ministers of finance and public health.The tour through the facilities included a visit to the Mixed Unit PASTEUR – INIA: joint laboratory...

9. News | 2016.02.28

   Inauguration of a new biosafety level 3+ laboratory (P3 +) at the Institut Pasteur of French Guiana

   Mrs. Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health has inaugurated Saturday, February 27, 2016 the new biosafety level 3+ laboratory at the Institut Pasteur of French Guiana.This new P3+ laboratory P3 respecting international standards will be equipped with a biosafety cabinet allowing to diagnose hemorragic and emerging viruses. It completes the technical platform of the Institut...

10. News | 2016.02.14

    Birdy: assessing the impact of resistant bacterial infections in young children

    The research program BIRDY is focused on bacterial infections, including resistant, in small children. On the occasion of the publication in The Lancet of a correspondence calling for accelerated efforts in research and public health in the fight against neonatal bacterial infection and antibiotic resistance in low-income countries, Dr. Awa Ndir, epidemiologist at the ...

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