Xinhua Press Agency | 22. 01.
2026
The Republic of Congo plans to create, in Pointe-Noire, a national institute of biology and health monitoring in order to better face major health challenges linked in particular to cholera, yellow fever and rabies, the Congolese Minister of Health and Population, Jean-Rosaire Ibara, said on Wednesday.
According to the minister, this option is part of a global context marked, since COVID-19, by the persistence of endemic diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), as well as by the emergence of new pathogens linked to human mobility.
According to Mr. Ibara, this project aims to improve epidemiological responsiveness through advanced diagnostics, to strengthen the health and scientific sovereignty of the country, to support biomedical, ecological and biotechnological research, as well as to support academic training in the field of health.
The future institute should notably house a central reference laboratory for biomedical, toxicological, physico-chemical and microbiological analyses, as well as for quality controls and expertise linked to medical biology, food, nutrition, pharmacy, water and the environment, the minister specified.
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