Malawi faces a human resources health crisis, with a 65 percent vacancy rate for nursing and midwifery positions in the public sector and an ever increasing disease burden to manage. Between 2004 and 2010, nursing education institutions in Malawi increased the annual...
As the coordinating center for the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative—a project within the Global Nurse Capacity Building Program that aims to strengthen nursing and midwifery fields throughout Africa—ICAP is introducing a new webinar series on curriculum...
Ambassador Eric Goosby, the US Global AIDS Coordinator, visited ICAP-supported sites in Lesotho during the first week of August to participate in the launch of the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) Clinical Skills Laboratories. He spoke at the launch,...
In Zambia, like in many countries around the world, nurses and midwives form the backbone of the health workforce and serve at every level of the health care system, but their skills are often uneven, underutilized, and unrecognized. ICAP is addressing these...
ICAP joined with representatives of the US Government and Ministries of Health from five African countries in Lilongwe, Malawi on November 17 for the launch of the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative–an initiative developed to address the critical shortage of...
