The Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN) is the largest infection prevention and control (IPC) non-profit organization in Africa. ICAN’s major goals are 1) to support and establish national IPC societies and structures; 2) to promote and facilitate infection control programs and AMR /AMS at facility and national level to strengthen health systems through education and mentorship by engaging communities at national and local levels.

As the leading Infection control Association in Africa with more than 15 years and experience and IPC voice in Africa. We are the preferred Training Service Provider for World Health Organisation (WHO), Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Africa Centre for disease control (ACDC) throughout the African continent and has the expertise and infrastructure to provide IPC training to various stakeholders, both clinical and non-clinical.
ICAN has successfully trained 2 253 students in IPC since 2014 -2019 across the African continent. Since 2020 and COVID-19 was declared – ICAN had to move all training to a virtual platform has done webinar +virtual training with more than 33487 in 2021 and 13 454 students in 2022 from over 50 English member state countries and more than 30French countries.

See more on the different SAMA Accredited ICAN courses listed below.