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Accomplishments

Establishment of the Lebanese Inter-hospital Pneumococcal Surveillance Program (LIPSP) , the first of its kind in Lebanon and the Levant, with funding from several agencies and in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Health

Click here to view the CRF

Click to view LIPSP newsletters from previous years: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2013
Establishment of the first Primary Immunodeficiency Program in the country with funding and collaboration with the Dubai-Harvard Foundation for Research
Establishment of the first National Program of Newborn Screening for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (NaSPID) under the patronage of the Ministry of Health and in collaboration with "iFight PID fund at AUBMC"

Use the links below for further info
Launching ceremony at the Ministry of Health, 19 January 2018
Educational video: "How to collect blood spot samples."
NaSPID brochures and posters
Conditions screened by TREC assay

Click the following link to watch the National Program of Neonatal Screening for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases video
Click the following link to read about the Launching of the National Program of Neonatal Screening for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases.
Click the following links to view the blood specimen sheet: English , Arabic .
The CIDR and the Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology (EPIM) were designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a WHO Collaborating Center (WHO CC) for Reference and Research on Bacterial Pathogens. Read More

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