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Jun 26, 2022 | Stories from the Field
At the Mbabane Regional Hospital HIV clinic in Eswatini, Bongiwe Matsebula, RN, nurse, and ICAP surveillance officer fills out an online screening form for a patient. Machawe Nkwanyana, the patient, is a 27-year-old man eager to know his COVID-19 status. Even though...
May 20, 2022 | News
ICAP at Columbia University is helping establish South Sudan’s first internationally accredited laboratory to catalyze robust research opportunities and the ability to deliver rapid HIV prevention, treatment, and care services to individuals who need them most. Over...
Jul 20, 2021 | Stories from the Field
As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, ICAP’s Ima-Abasi Bassey was a voracious reader of romance novels, finding an escape in an ongoing series detailing dramatic tales of love among health professionals. This was a world where anything could happen and the stakes were...
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...