Stories from the Field
May 3, 2018 | Stories from the Field
Zuhura, 19, has a story shared by many young women from rural settlements in Kagera, a region in Tanzania bordering Lake Victoria. After her parents separated when she was 15, she moved to the nearest town, intending to earn a living selling fruit at the local fish...
Mar 20, 2018 | Stories from the Field
On February 20, 2018, Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa attended the opening of the Lake Zone’s first methadone clinic, at the ICAP-supported Sekou Toure Regional Hospital in Mwanza city. Similar clinics exist in the capital, Dar es Salaam, and in Zanzibar, but...
Feb 28, 2018 | Stories from the Field
Health care providers and community members in Sierra Leone are eager for new ways to protect children from malaria, and Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Infants (IPTi) has potential for national scale-up, according to an ICAP study in Sierra Leone, conducted in...
Jan 11, 2018 | Stories from the Field
In early December, members of 12 newly formed multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) in Ukraine gathered for an ICAP-led training course on quality improvement techniques to accelerate gains in HIV service delivery. These teams, representing the 12 “oblasts” (administrative...
Oct 16, 2017 | News, Stories from the Field
ICAP’s Global Nurse Capacity Building Program (GNCBP) recently held dissemination meetings for its projects in South Africa and Ethiopia. These events, attended by ministry of health (MOH) officials, U.S. government representatives, nursing and midwifery associations,...
Sep 6, 2017 | Stories from the Field
In the Kyrgyz Republic, injection drug use accounts for almost 60 percent of HIVinfections. For people who inject drugs, needle and syringe programs—which provide clean needles and syringes at no cost to participants—serve as one of three core HIVinterventions, along...