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
Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA)
- Multi-Country,
- current:
- Cameroon ,
- Cote d’ Ivoire ,
- Democratic Republic of the Congo ,
- Eswatini ,
- Lesotho ,
- Tanzania ,
- Uganda
Programmatic Support Award (PSA)
- Multi-Country,
- current:
- Brazil ,
- Cameroon ,
- Colombia ,
- Democratic Republic of the Congo ,
- El Salvador ,
- Guatemala ,
- Honduras ,
- Kazakhstan ,
- Malawi ,
- Myanmar ,
- Panama ,
- Peru ,
- Philippines ,
- South Sudan ,
- Uganda ,
- Zambia ,
- Zimbabwe
Strengthening the Strategic Information Capacity of the Ministry of Health in Support of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment
- current
The CQUIN Project for Differentiated Service Delivery
- Multi-Country,
- current
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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