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 17, 2021 | Stories from the Field
Growing up in Cameroon, Rita Sondengam was no stranger to the faces that hide behind the numbers of some of the world’s most pressing public health emergencies like HIV/AIDS, malaria, dysentery, and TB. But for her, these weren’t just statistics, faceless numbers in a...
Apr 16, 2021 | Stories from the Field
As a boy growing up in rural Ethiopia, ICAP’s Tesfay Abreha, DVM, MSc, MPH, and his family dreamed of him becoming a successful lawyer, influenced by an uncle who was a judge. But life had other plans: as a young student, he excelled in science rather than political...
