Stories from the Field
Aug 29, 2019 | Stories from the Field
At ICAP’s office in Juba, South Sudan, Shambel Aragaw’s phone buzzes. Aragaw, a medical doctor, is the technical director for ICAP in South Sudan, and the buzz is a WhatsApp notification. But not just any notification. This is the daily summary of all HIV-related...
Jun 5, 2019 | Stories from the Field
For pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV, antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a safe and effective way to avoid transmitting HIV to their babies. Strategies like Option B+, where expectant mothers living with HIV are offered lifelong ART regardless of their...
Jun 5, 2019 | Stories from the Field
At the Lundazi Urban Clinic in Zambia’s Eastern Province, an ICAP-supported community lay counselor welcomed Susan as she hurried in. “How come you are late for pharmacy pick-up?” the counselor asked. “I could not leave the village as I had to participate in field...
Jun 3, 2019 | Stories from the Field
Hilda,* 16, didn’t know she was HIV-positive when she joined the DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe) peer group in her home village of Kitoko in Tanzania. “The first DREAMS sessions were exciting. We learned about HIV and...
Apr 25, 2019 | Stories from the Field
As ministries of health and their partners move to scale up differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV treatment, one approach is taking the spotlight. Multi-month scripting (MMS) is a facility-based, individual-focused DSD model, in which recipients of care who...
Apr 4, 2019 | Stories from the Field
In Bure, Ethiopia, malaria is a severe health threat. But for this town of 23,000 people in the country’s Amhara region, 250 miles northwest of the capital, distance was making the threat even more lethal. More than two-thirds of Ethiopians live in malaria-prone areas...