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Burundi

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Burundi

ICAP’s approach to improving HIV care and treatment in Burundi focuses on working with local partners and networks to strengthen health systems and improve access to high-quality service delivery. Supporting the Ministry of Health and national partners to optimize the way health services are managed and delivered will have promising outcomes for HIV epidemic control in the country.

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Projects

Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
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The CQUIN Project for Differentiated Service Delivery

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
CQUIN is a multi-country learning network dedicated to improving differentiated service delivery (DSD) for people living with HIV. Launched in 2017 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the network convenes health system leaders from countries in sub-Saharan Africa to participate in joint learning and information exchange, with the goal of fostering scale-up ...
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ICAP in Burundi

Active Years
  • 2019 to present
Key Technical Areas
  • COVID-19 
  • HIV 
  • Tuberculosis  
  • Maternal and Child Health 
  • Non-Communicable Diseases 
  • HIV
  • Tuberculosis
  • Differentiated Service Delivery
  • Strengthening Health Systems
  • Quality Improvement
  • Human Resources for Health
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Laboratory Strengthening
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Technical Assistance
Current Funders
  • PEPFAR / USAID
  • Gates Foundation

Country Director

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Ruben Sahabo, MD

Dr. Ruben Sahabo is the country director for ICAP in Eswatini and Burundi. Previously, he was the ICAP country director in Rwanda, where he led the rapid expansion of care and treatment activities, overseeing technical and financial assistance to over 50 urban and rural clinics that enrolled over 50,000 patients in HIV care and treatment. He also supported the start-up of ICAP’s programs in Côte d’Ivoire in 2008 and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010. Dr. Sahabo has managed numerous program evaluations and research studies in Rwanda and Eswatini and was co-investigator of an evaluation of the Diagnostic Chip for Infectious Diseases in Rwanda, an innovative strategy for an integrated point-of-care microfluidic-based diagnostic device based on “lab on a chip” technologies developed by Columbia University Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory.

Jobs in Burundi

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