In the Media
May 15, 2019 | In the Media, News
“There’s an increasing appreciation that this epidemic is even less homogeneous than people have imagined,” says Wafaa El-Sadr, global director of the public-health organization ICAP and a professor at Columbia University, who was not a contributor...
May 13, 2019 | In the Media, News
The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) officially launched the country’s Advanced Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Training Program at an event in Freetown on May 13, 2019. This six-month training course will enable the initial cohort of...
May 10, 2019 | In the Media, News
In a highly relevant new commentary just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Wafaa M. El-Sadr, ICAP global director, and professor of epidemiology, and co-authors explore the state of AIDS in America, barriers that stand in the way of ending this...
May 3, 2019 | In the Media, News
Malaria is one of the most serious health challenges in Sierra Leone, where malaria-related illness and death rates are among the highest worldwide, especially among children under five years of age. In 2016, ICAP began partnering with Sierra Leone’s National Malaria...
May 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
(article originally published on PoliticoSL.com) By Kemo Cham Makeni midwifery school gets new skills lab The School of Midwifery Makeni (SOMM) has received a major boost towards skills based education and training, with the inauguration of a new skills lab, library...
May 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
The country has already met one of the three global HIV targets set by the joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) of having at least 90 percent of all HIV positive people on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) by 2020, with 92 percent of its HIV-positive...
