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Mar 1, 2011 | News
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the first sub-Saharan African countries to recognize the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has between 400,000 and 500,000 people living with HIV, and recent USAID reports suggest that this number is growing. ICAP’s work in DRC was...
Feb 18, 2011 | News
Banchi Abebe, a self-supporting mother of two, is a mentor mother at Sabian Health Center in Dire Dawa Administrative region, one of the four regions supported by ICAP in Ethiopia. Â She was among the first to be enrolled in the Mother Support Group program, a part of...
Feb 4, 2011 | News
Despite the availability of effective antiretroviral drugs for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) and national PMTCT program, more than 6,000 children a year in Kenya acquire HIV during pregnancy, labor, or breastfeeding. If these children are not...
Jan 30, 2011 | News
In Ethiopia, ICAP has been helping coordinate HIV work with services offered by the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) movement. Thirty-eight participants attended a two-day meeting to discuss the conditions of WASH and HIV services, and recommend a way forward....
Jan 20, 2011 | News
In Tanzania, ICAP has successfully supported the completion of the first phase of a male circumcision (MC) program in the Lake Victoria Islands. Between November and December 2010, a total of 1,158 men between 10 and 55 years were circumcised in Bumbile ward (which...
Jan 12, 2011 | News
Nur-Mossa Ahmed has grown up in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. His parents are refugees from Somalia, and his home has always been the camp in the small town of Kebri Beyah, about 754 kilometers (469 miles) east of Addis Ababa. At one of the health centers built by...
