Internships

Internship Description

Qualifications

ICAP Country Program: Nigeria

Internship code: ICAP NG - 1
ICAP Nigeria would like a student to evaluate the effects of staff size, relative workload and other factors on the quality of data collected at ICAP-supported ART (antiretroviral therapy) clinics.

Student’s responsibilities will include the following:
• Evaluate staff-to-workload ratio at two selected sites
• Analyze the relationship between the staff-to-workload ratio and data quality at these sites
• Present findings to ICAP staff and make recommendations for improving data quality

MPH student or Background in Public Health (HP&M student preferred but not a requirement)

Experience in program evaluation and data analysis.
Experience working in developing country context, interest in HIV/AIDS and related conditions, organizational development etc.

Internship code: ICAP NG – 2

ICAP Nigeria would like a student to improve referral systems for linking people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) into TB care and treatment programs. Student’s responsibilities will include the following:

- Develop and define referral tools
- Field test referral tools and collect data on findings
- Analyze data collected from field testing process
- Make recommendations for implementing enhanced referral system

MPH student or Background in Public Health, HIV/AIDS and TB, skills in Excel and/or Access
Experience working in developing country context and with HIV/AIDS and TB. Interest in health systems strengthening

Internship code: ICAP NG – 3

ICAP Nigeria would like a student to evaluate outcomes and impacts associated with the implementation and use of food bank support programs at 2 ICAP supported sites. Student’s responsibilities will include the following:
- Review food bank records
- Identify significant indices of improvement in the nutritional status of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)
- Analyze and compare findings from 2 selected facilities
- Develop a proposal for establishment of sustainable food banks

Internship Code: ICAP CI -1

ICAP Cote d’Ivoire would like for a student to work with the clinical unit to evaluate various aspects of the prevention of mother- to-child transmission of HIV program (PMTCT).

The evaluation may include a retrospective review of numbers of HIV+ pregnant women that initiated ART (antiretroviral therapy) and received a complete course of ART, and/or a prospective analysis that involves assessing linkages between PMTCT and ART clinics.

Internship Code: ICAP SZ-1

There is concern that HIV+ pregnant women who are started on HAART are not continuing their treatment after they deliver their children. ICAP Swaziland would like to have a better understanding of how pervasive the problem is and why some women do not continue treatment.

The student will conduct an assessment of % of HIV + pregnant women started on HAART and lost to follow up after delivery, and provide recommendations for enhancing HIV+ mothers adherence to treatment.

Internship Code: ICAP SZ-2

There is a high prevalence of HIV, hypertension and diabetes in Swaziland (although little formal data are available on the situation). However, there is very little understanding of the interplay between these diseases and how they are treated in Swaziland.

ICAP Swaziland is interested in supporting a student to assess and document the clinical services available for hypertension and diabetes, and to discuss how diabetes and hypertension services overlap with HIV care and treatment (if at all). The student will also assess the effects of vertical treatment of these diseases at the patient level.

Internship Code: ICAP SZ-4

ICAP Swaziland has been successful in rolling out and integrating early infant diagnoses of HIV programs using DNA PCR testing at immunization, growth monitoring clinics and other healthcare facilities. An estimated 700 infants have been identified DNA PCR positive since these diagnostic services were implemented.

ICAP Swaziland would like a student to evaluate uptake of care and treatment services among these infants.
Questions to be explored include: how many/what percent of infants were enrolled in care, how many started HAART, how many are still in treatment, what factors facilitated/impeded enrollment into care?