Updates from our programmes, research and the communities we serve.
Nigeria is ranked 6th among countries contributing to the global burden of tuberculosis. To increase finding of tuberculosis cases in the country, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) will participate in the National Tuberculosis (TB) Testing Week.
The Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) has distributed more than 200 HIV self-test kits to corp members volunteering in the Anti-HIV Community Development Service group in Abuja.
The USAID Tuberculosis Local Organizations Network (USAID TB LON-3) project implemented by Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), has sensitized more than 2000 corps members and screened 200 of them for tuberculosis at a two-day activity that took place at the Lagos State National…
Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has commenced the 4th Cohort of the Growing Expertise in E-Health Knowledge and Skills (GEEKS), a one year, competency-based, health informatics fellowship program.
The 2022 MPox (monkeypox) pandemic has brought a Nigerian and West/Central African endemic disease to global attention. As a result, new international collaborations were created and scientists across the world began to work towards a better understanding of mpox and its impact…
IHVN Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Dakum addressing guests at the commissioning ceremony of IHVN Campus in Abuja
Executive Director, International Research Center of Excellence (IRCE), Prof Alash’le Abimiku addresses participants at the first scientific seminar organized to mark the commissioning of the IHVN Campus in Abuja
Picture above: L-R IHVN Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Dr Charles Olalekan Mensah; IHVN Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Dakum; Representative of IHVN Board Chair, Prof Emeritus Umaru Shehu, his son, Mr.
Picture above: IHVN Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Dakum, addressing journalists flanked by Executive Director of the International Research Center of Excellence (IRCE), Prof. Alash’le Abimiku and IHVN Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director, Dr. Charles Olalekan Mensah.
To mark the 2023 Childhood Tuberculosis National Testing Week, the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has provided free integrated health screening in schools, orphanages, destitute homes and correctional centers in Ogun, Osun, Oyo and Lagos States.
Picture above: IHVN campus in Abuja. The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) is to officially launch its state-of-the-art multi-campus of excellence in public healthcare, treatment training, and research to bring quality health services within the reach of millions of…
The International Research Center of Excellence (IRCE) is a Center of Excellence established in 2015 by the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) to promote public/private partnership for quality health services, capacity building and research in West Africa.
