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Apr 29, 2013 | News
Malawi faces a human resources health crisis, with a 65 percent vacancy rate for nursing and midwifery positions in the public sector and an ever increasing disease burden to manage. Between 2004 and 2010, nursing education institutions in Malawi increased the annual...
Apr 25, 2013 | News
On April 11th, ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr delivered the tenth James C. Hill Memorial lecture at the National Institutes of Health, entitled, “The Global Response to the HIV Epidemic: Lessons Learned, Lasting Legacy.” The lecture described how strategies used to...
Apr 19, 2013 | News
Less than three percent of the 150,000 people living with HIV in South Sudan have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and access to comprehensive HIV care and treatment, as well as other primary health services, in the country remain limited. The Government of...
Apr 8, 2013 | News
An estimated 90 percent of new pediatric HIV infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa and despite efforts to expand access to HIV care and treatment, only 28 percent of these children receive antiretroviral therapy (ART). Decentralizing HIV care and treatment services...
Mar 29, 2013 | News
Jonathan Platt, an epidemiology student at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, spent six months working with ICAP staff in Mozambique through the ICAP Next Generation program. Platt described his experiences of cultural immersion and professional...
Mar 28, 2013 | News
The ICAP Global Nurse Capacity Building Program (GNCBP) hosted its fifth annual summit meeting, “Moving Our Capacity Building Initiatives Forward: Nurse Education Partnership Initiative and General Nursing,” on March 19-22 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 2009,...
