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Apr 10, 2024 | News
For over 8 million Sierra Leoneans, primary health care facilities are the first point of contact in receiving treatment for any illness, including during infectious disease outbreaks. With a resilient spirit forged through past challenges dealing with deadly...
Apr 9, 2024 | News
Effective HIV case finding is a critical first step to ensuring that all individuals living with HIV can be linked to the treatment they need. In Ethiopia, however, insufficient data-capturing and management systems limited health care professionals in understanding...
Apr 4, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
In 2023, Nicholaus William, 31, and his partner Johari Musa, 24, were caught in the grips of drug addiction. Their journey towards substance dependency started in 2015 in their hometown in Tanzania’s Mwanza Region. William, who was working as a secondhand clothes...
Apr 1, 2024 | News
For three years, there had not been a single report of malaria from Degehabur General Hospital in the Somali region of Ethiopia. The fourth largest city in the region, Degehabur was identified by the Ministry of Health as a city nearing malaria elimination. However,...
Mar 26, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
An ICAP-supported disease surveillance team in Kenya successfully identified and reported a new human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in northern Kenya, leading the country’s Ministry of Health to declare an outbreak on January 24, 2024. RVF is an acute hemorrhagic...
Mar 19, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, international public health experts knew the country and its neighbors would soon face an invisible crisis in addition to the destruction and mass casualties of war: the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)....