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Call for Abstracts
We welcome your participation in the 9th Infection Control Africa Network Congress (ICAN 2025) taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 June to 2 July 2025.
The congress will attract infection control practitioners from the community and hospital settings, hospital management, healthcare workers interested in IPC, CSSD staff, trainers in IPC, and hospital engineers.
Abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed and selected based on merit and relevance to the congress theme. Abstracts chosen for oral presentation will have 15-20 minutes followed by a Q&A session. Abstracts chosen for poster presentation will be displayed throughout the congress with designated times for author interaction.
Please read the Call for Abstracts for further details and instructions on how to submit your abstract. The deadline for submissions is 7 February 2025.
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IFHE 2024
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G-SPARC Conference 2024
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8th ICAN Congress 2021
Over the years, ICAN has grown to become THE voice of IPC in Africa and is recognised by goverments across the world as well as

7th ICAN Network Congress 2018
On behalf of the Infection Control Africa Network Board and executive team, we want to thank all the attendees at the 7th ICAN Congress 2018.

6th ICAN Network Congress 2016
View the scientific programme It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th International ICAN Conference in Johannesburg, in 2016. ICAN is the