Midwifery
May 11, 2016 | News
The Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) has made important contributions towards PEPFAR’s goal of controlling the HIV epidemic by increasing the number, quality, and capacity of nurses and midwives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia,...
Feb 18, 2016 | News
In 2014, ICAP launched an online training course for nurses and midwives in the Option B+ approach for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The introductory course was developed to provide up-to-date information on current HIV care and treatment guidelines...
Sep 1, 2015 | News
In Zambia, there are 78 health care workers per 100,000 people, well below the 230 recommended by the World Health Organization. A primary obstacle to achieving health care staffing targets in the country is the low production of sufficiently-skilled students...
Mar 17, 2015 | News
Through the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative, ICAP and its partners in six sub-Saharan African countries that face critical shortages in human resources for health, have graduated over 6,200 nursing and midwifery students and trained almost 1,600 faculty,...
Oct 23, 2014 | News
This month, ICAP launched the Option B+ online training for nurses and midwives. A new approach recommended by WHO to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Option B+ includes initiating lifelong antiretroviral treatment (ART) for pregnant and...