Maternal and child health
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...
In Eswatini, ICAP Extends Follow-Up and Testing to Give HIV-Exposed Infants a Healthy Start in Life
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...
ICAP Supports Sierra Leone to Become First Country with National Coverage of Infant Malaria Prevention
Malaria is one of the most serious health challenges in Sierra Leone, where malaria-related illness and death rates are among the highest in the world, especially among children under five years of age. Protecting these vulnerable lives requires a multi-pronged...