Through the loss of her mother, husband, and two children over a nine-year period, ICAP’s Enala Daudi discovered her purpose as a community health worker—using her lived experiences to accompany her clients throughout their own health journeys after a new HIV diagnosis. Read more>>

As a 29-year-old taking night classes towards a degree in business management, HIV was the last thing on Kassahun Tadese’s mind. However, as waves of weight loss, fever, sweats, and general fatigue became more and more frequent, he knew something was not right. He had gone to several doctors, but despite various treatments, he felt worse. Read more>>

As a boy growing up in rural Ethiopia, ICAP’s Tesfay Abreha 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 science or history. Read more>>

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 spreadsheet. These were people. Her people. And, as a young girl, she decided was going to make a difference. Read more>>

The winter when Pule Solomon Moabi was 10 years old was a particularly harsh one. His family was unable to afford to heat their home in the mountains of Lesotho, leading him to contract a serious case of pneumonia that landed the young boy in the hospital. It was during this convalescence, however, that he first encountered the power of nurses and began a journey that would lead him to become a certified nurse and midwife, complete his master’s in public health, publish two papers in nursing sciences, and start his PhD in nursing education—all while training Lesotho’s nurses of tomorrow at the Scott College of Nursing. Read more>>