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ICAP has been awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support the Government of Sierra Leone to strengthen the country’s health systems, enabling a more effective response to emergent and future public health threats. This work will build on the lessons learned from the response to the current Ebola outbreak.

Through this project, ICAP will provide technical assistance at the national and district levels on infection prevention and control, strategic information systems, and quality improvement, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) and the National Ebola Response Center.

“This is an important opportunity to work with the Government of Sierra Leone to address gaps and challenges in infectious disease response and control,” said Dr. Miriam Rabkin, ICAP director of health systems strategies. “By fostering rigorous evaluations, quality improvement activities, and the use of data to guide programs, a strong public health response can be achieved.”

Sierra Leone has made progress in controlling the Ebola outbreak. ICAP previously partnered with the MOHS to conduct a rapid assessment of Community Care Centers, which represent a new model of providing support to patients with Ebola Virus Disease. A description of this assessment was recently published in <a href=”{filedir_2}Lancet_CCCs.pdf”>Lancet Global Health</a>.

“We look forward to continuing our partnership with the Government of Sierra Leone and building on the innovative and significant strides they have made to confront the Ebola outbreak over the past year,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP. “This project will enable the health system to respond more effectively to prevent, detect, and control infectious disease threats currently and in the future.”

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