Stories from the Field
Jun 4, 2021 | Stories from the Field
After falling ill this past March, Anne* was unable to travel the 20 kilometers to Kiremba Hospital for her scheduled appointment to refill her antiretroviral supply and ran out of her medication, placing her at heightened risk of mortality and morbidity, drug...
May 19, 2021 | News, Stories from the Field
As Myanmar grappled to navigate its fragile health care system through the devastations of the COVID-19 pandemic, a military takeover of government began in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, disrupting health services even more. Community-based health services – using peer...
May 18, 2021 | Stories from the Field
As health facilities around the world continue to grapple with the wide-ranging impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a special initiative co-led by ICAP is working to tailor HIV care and treatment options for young people living with HIV and their caregivers. The...
May 17, 2021 | Stories from the Field
Growing up in Cameroon, Rita Sondengam was no stranger to the faces that hide behind the numbers of some of the world’s most pressing public health emergencies like HIV/AIDS, malaria, dysentery, and TB. But for her, these weren’t just statistics, faceless numbers in a...
May 10, 2021 | Stories from the Field
During her visit this week to the Kingdom of Eswatini, Wafaa El Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, the founder and global director of ICAP at Columbia University, met with the Honorable Minister of Health, Senator Lizzie Nkosi on Monday, May 3, 2021. The two discussed ICAP’s...
Apr 24, 2021 | Stories from the Field
Three years into the successful launch of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project in Sierra Leone, ICAP continues to help the country’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) to strengthen laboratory and data systems. The training of...
