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Oct 16, 2017 | News, Stories from the Field
ICAP’s Global Nurse Capacity Building Program (GNCBP) recently held dissemination meetings for its projects in South Africa and Ethiopia. These events, attended by ministry of health (MOH) officials, U.S. government representatives, nursing and midwifery associations,...
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...
Jun 29, 2015 | Stories from the Field
Before nurses and midwives begin practicing, they are required to have a range of clinical competencies to achieve licensure. In Ethiopia, opportunities for clinical learning for nurses, however, have been limited, due to a shortage of facilities, and the challenge of...
May 20, 2015 | Stories from the Field
In the early 1960’s, Malawi’s National School of Nursing operated a model teaching ward at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital where nursing students developed critical clinical skills by working directly with patients supported by trained clinical supervisors. But with...
