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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)....
Mar 19, 2024 | News
ICAP supported the first biobehavioral survey (BBS) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Zambia, the results demonstrating both successes and gaps in progress made toward the UNAIDS 95-95-95 global targets. Conducted between November 2021 and February 2022 in the...
Mar 8, 2024 | News
Across the Eastern Europe and Southern Caucuses (EESC), ICAP is training health professionals on the One Health approach, equipping the next generation of human, animal, and environmental health experts with effective tools for addressing a spectrum of emerging...