ICAP

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ICAP supports Ministry of Health efforts to strengthen the human resource capacity of its national health sector and to improve HIV prevention, care, and treatment service provision. Ongoing programmatic work prepares frontline health workers—primarily nurses and midwives—to better respond to health emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks and sustained pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, natural disasters, and civil conflicts. Following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, ICAP expanded its programming in the DRC to include systems-level disease surveillance.

Projects

GHS: Enhancing Global Health Security Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health

  • current
The Global Health Security Agenda supports medium- and long-term health systems strengthening efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease health threats. ...

Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current:
  • Cameroon
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  • Cote d’ Ivoire
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  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  • Eswatini
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  • Lesotho
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  • Malawi
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  • Tanzania
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  • Uganda
PHIA is a multi-country initiative led by ICAP, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and ministries of health in PEPFAR-supported countries. Each survey offers household-based HIV counseling and testing conducted by trained survey staff, with return of results. The surveys also ask questions about access to preventive care and treatment services for adults and children. The results measure national and regional progress toward UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 goals and guide policy ...

Programmatic Support Award (PSA)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current:
  • Brazil
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  • Cameroon
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  • Colombia
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  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  • El Salvador
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  • Guatemala
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  • Honduras
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  • Kazakhstan
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  • Malawi
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  • Myanmar
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  • Panama
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  • Peru
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  • Philippines
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  • South Sudan
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  • Tanzania
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  • Uganda
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  • Zambia
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  • Zimbabwe
Building on over 15 years of partnership between ICAP at Columbia University, PEPFAR, and CDC, the Programmatic Support Award provides rapid, flexible technical support to accelerate evidence-based HIV prevention and treatment program implementation and align health systems strengthening activities. ...

Strengthening the Strategic Information Capacity of the Ministry of Health in Support of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment

  • current
ICAP is working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its National AIDS Control Program to strengthen the collection, management, and use of HIV data, including epidemiological and program data. Key objectives of the award include enhancing national HIV strategic information planning and implementation; advancing HIV surveillance priorities; strengthening data quality improvement (DQI) ...

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 ...

ICAP in DRC

Active Years
  • 2010 to present
Key Technical Areas
  • COVID-19
  • HIV
  • Ebola
  • Tuberculosis
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Global Health Security
  • Human Resources for Health
  • Strengthening Health Systems
  • Laboratory Strengthening
  • Infection, Prevention, and Control
  • Training and Education
  • Technical Assistance
  • Quality Improvement
Current Funders
  • PEPFAR / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • PEPFAR / Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

Country Director

Stéphania Koblavi, PharmD, PhD

Dr. Stéphania Koblavi is ICAP’s country director in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the interim country director for ICAP in Côte d’Ivoire. She has over 25 years of experience as a laboratory specialist and expertise in quality improvement through laboratory accreditation preparedness, laboratory training and quality management, laboratory network development, laboratory policy, and strategic planning. She joined ICAP in 2006, working in Rwanda, and in 2010, she supported the start-up of ICAP programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Côte d’Ivoire, she was the strategic and planning director, overseeing and coordinating the development of program planning, monitoring, and reporting systems. Prior to joining ICAP, Stéphania worked with the CDC in Abidjan in the bioclinical laboratory, where she helped establish the rapid testing algorithm for HIV diagnosis. She was then appointed medical research scientist in the immunovirology laboratory, where she explored the specific immune system response to HIV 1 and 2. Dr. Koblavi holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Côte d’Ivoire University and a PhD in microbiology from Institut Pasteur at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII).

Jobs in DRC

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