IPC - Infection Prevention and Control
First Cadre of Graduates Complete Six-Month Training in Infection Prevention and Control in Sierra Leone
In efforts to boost the resiliency of Sierra Leone’s health systems after a six-year period of natural disasters and public health emergencies, ICAP at Columbia University is spearheading a series of projects to strengthen the national health system’s practices in...
ICAP Training Strengthens Infection Prevention and Control in Sierra Leone
At a ceremony on February 21, 2020, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the first cohort of graduates from the six-month Advanced Certificate Course in Infection Prevention and Control received their certificates. These eighteen graduates are staff of the Bintumani Hospital in...
ICAP Improves Labor Monitoring to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Rural Sierra Leone
As in many rural areas across Sierra Leone, the roads between Kukuna Township and the nearest maternity hospital in Kambia are in very poor repair. Although the journey is only 35 miles, it can take up to three hours—a very long time on a bumpy road for a woman in...