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May 8, 2019 | News
“Today marks the climax of my dream,” proclaimed a delighted Francess Fornah, RN, RM, head of the School of Midwifery in Makeni, Sierra Leone. Fornah was speaking at an event on April 12 to commission a new library, computer lab, and skills lab at the institution she...
May 8, 2019 | News
On April 12, 2019, the First Lady of Angola, Ana Dias Lourenço, observed prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services at Luanda’s Hospital Dos Cajueiros as part of her tour in support of the “Born Free to Shine” campaign. Funding and strategic...
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...
May 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
President Trump’s recent call to end the HIV epidemic in the United States has turned attention to a domestic public health crisis that has been absent from the headlines for quite some time. And with this bold challenge come critical questions: Why is the U.S....