HIV/AIDS - Centre Pasteur du Cameroun

HIV/AIDS surveillance activities

The CPC houses the National Reference Laboratory for HIV viral load determination. The laboratory processed 21,392 HIV VL requests in 2023 compared to 24,313 in 2022, a decrease of 12.01%. Our expertise is used in HIV input quantification committees and all other issues related to HIV VL testing. The CPC is responsible for distributing reagents to other sites.

CAMPHIA « Cameroon Population-Based HIV Impact Assessement»

The Centre Pasteur du Cameroun (CPC) was selected as the Central Laboratory for the CAMPHIA (Cameroon Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment) survey after a rigorous evaluation of Cameroon's reference laboratories by ICAP and CDC, the MSP's partners in this survey. The CPC performs HIV viral load tests for early diagnosis of HIV infection and confirms positive hepatitis B results obtained in the field. The CPC also oversees activities conducted in the survey's twelve satellite laboratories.

The CAMPHIA project, funded by the U.S. government and led by the Ministry of Health of Cameroon in collaboration with U.S. partners (ICAP, CDC, and Westat) and national agencies (CPC, CNLS, INS, CREMER, LNSP), aims to assess the impact of HIV on households in Cameroon. The CAMPHIA survey also aims to evaluate the impact of health interventions in the fight against HIV among adults and children. This survey, which began in April 2017 among approximately 14,000 households, is expected to target approximately 26,500 adults aged 15-64 and 7,000 children aged 0-14.

Research Objectives:

Estimate HIV prevalence in Cameroon
Estimate national HIV incidence
Estimate HIV viral load suppression
Estimate the prevalence of HIV/HBV coinfection
Estimate the prevalence of primary and transmitted HIV resistance
Estimate CD4+ cell distribution and HIV-related risk behaviors
Status of Progress

As of May 2018, 1,182 HIV viral load tests, 49 early childhood diagnoses, and 1,762 hepatitis B viral load tests were performed at the CPC. The incidence test will be carried out at the end of the field sample collection.

Measles/Rubella

Measles/Rubella Surveillance Activities As the WHO National Reference Laboratory for measles and rubella, the CPC is responsible for ensuring the serological diagnosis of these pathologies. Samples from suspected cases are sent to the CPC via the GTC/PEV for testing for the presence of IgM anti-measles and rubella virus using the ELISA technique (Euroimmun diagnostic kits […]

Avian flu

Avian Flu Surveillance Activities The Cameroon Pasteur Center is mandated by the Ministry of Public Health and the WHO to conduct diagnostic tests for the detection of avian viruses. Between 2016 and 2017, Cameroon suffered an avian influenza epidemic with high poultry mortality in several outbreaks across the country in the Central, South, West, Adamawa, […]

Rage

Rabies surveillance activities Rabies is endemic in Cameroon, and dogs are the primary vector of human rabies transmission. Only one sample from a suspected human rabies patient was received at the CPC in 2023 and tested negative following confirmatory testing. No biological analysis was performed on animal samples suspected of being rabid. Animal rabies In […]

Poliomyélite

POLIO SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES (NAT LAB AND WHO INTER-COUNTRY) The Centre Pasteur du Cameroun is a national and inter-country laboratory for poliovirus surveillance in Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe. Diagnosis is made using stool samples from children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) to detect wild poliovirus, vaccine-derived poliovirus, or vaccine-derived poliovirus. […]

Meningitis

Meningitis surveillance The bacteriology laboratory of the Pasteur Center of Cameroon is responsible for confirming suspected cases of meningitis in Cameroon. Weekly reports are sent to the Ministry of Public Health and various partners. In 2023, a total of 99 CSFs were analyzed at the Pasteur Center Annex in Garoua, of which 5 were positive. […]

Human Flu

Activités de surveillance de la Grippe Humaine Le CPC est Centre National de Référence de la Grippe au Cameroun. A ce titre, il effectue une surveillance organisée sous forme de surveillance sentinelle et une surveillance biologique ciblant essentiellement les formes bénignes de la grippe. Le diagnostic biologique se fait grâce à la mise en place […]

Ebola

Ebola surveillance activities The CPC is the national reference laboratory for the surveillance of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF). The laboratory is responsible, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, for ensuring the biological confirmation of suspected cases of VHF in Cameroon. National VHF surveillance was significantly affected by the very first outbreak of […]

Cholera

Cholera surveillance activities The CPC carries out biological confirmation of cases and transmits daily reports to the authorities and the various partners involved in response actions. A total of 94 suspect stools were sent to the CPC for cholera vibrio testing in 2023. Following the analyses, 35 cases of cholera were confirmed, all of the […]

Yellow Fever

Yellow fever surveillance activities The CPC houses both the national laboratory for Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe, and the Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL) for yellow fever for 10 countries in the WHO African Region. In its role as RRL, it provides training, technical support, quality control and quality assurance activities to the […]