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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....
May 2, 2019 | News
ICAP at Columbia University has been awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct an extensive population survey effort in an array of countries and communities hardest hit by the global HIV epidemic. The HIV...
May 1, 2019 | 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....