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Sep 30, 2013 | News
ICAP will partner with UNICEF to accelerate progress towards eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This new initiative— _Optimizing HIV Treatment Access for Pregnant Women (OHTA)_ —aims to strengthen the capacity of primary health care systems to deliver...
Sep 6, 2013 | News
A new report entitled, Nurses & Midwives: The Frontline Against HIV/AIDS, is available from ICAP. This report includes highlights and lessons learned from ICAP’s work with nurses and midwives throughout Africa in the global response to AIDS. The HIV epidemic has...
Aug 27, 2013 | News
ICAP has forged a public-private partnership between The Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA), the sole recruiting company for over 30,000 Basotho miners, and the Ministry of Health to address the tuberculosis (TB) crisis in Lesotho. With funding from WHO this new...
Aug 19, 2013 | News
At Bishoftu Hospital in Ethiopia, a distressed mother arrived with a crying newborn tied to her back. She had traveled many kilometers to seek care at the pediatric clinic for her baby, who was in severe respiratory distress. Before the establishment of the Neonatal...
Jul 29, 2013 | News
On June 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 2013 _Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection_ at the International AIDS Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The guidelines focus on the HIV...
Jul 29, 2013 | News
Designing, conducting and analyzing health-related research studies is an important priority in Swaziland, as well as utilizing research data to inform decision-making in the health sector. Public health professionals, however, often have limited opportunity to garner...
