Training
May 27, 2020 | News
In April, ICAP was awarded $100,000 from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to engage and empower frontline health care workers in Eswatini, Ethiopia, and Tanzania to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the spread of COVID-19 steadily increases across sub-Saharan...
Feb 26, 2020 | News
At a ceremony on February 21, 2020, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the first cohort of graduates from the six-month Advanced Certificate Course in Infection Prevention and Control received their certificates. These eighteen graduates are staff of the Bintumani Hospital in...
Jun 27, 2019 | News
In Sierra Leone, house officers (medical interns) are often posted in leadership positions at low-resource health facilities and are expected to make critical management decisions that can impact thousands of patients. However, their education seldom includes...
Jun 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
ICAP in Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has trained 26 house officers in the first cohort of its leadership and management certificate...
May 13, 2019 | In the Media, News
The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) officially launched the country’s Advanced Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Training Program at an event in Freetown on May 13, 2019. This six-month training course will enable the initial cohort of...