The Ida Lee Project partners with local, national, and international organizations to enhance our network and impact in addressing women’s healthcare challenges in the DRC. These collaborations allow for the sharing of resources and expertise, ensuring more effective and sustainable interventions, and improving access to quality healthcare.
The Ida Lee Project is working in collaboration with Dr. Mary Beth Terry and Dr. Jasmine McDonald of the Epidemiology Department at Columbia University on an investigative research project to determine if pollution is a cause of increased breast cancer rates in Congolese women.
The Ida Lee Project is leading the way in tandem with the WHO DRC to introduce HPV vaccination sites across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Using researching from our GAVI application, ILP is preparing the protocol and providing the serotypes of HPV strains to contribute to project efforts.
Dr. Denis Mukwege and the Ida Lee Project are preparing a holistic approach to women’s healthcare in Kisangani based on PANZI’s ‘one-stop’ clinics already open to patients in other regions of the DRC.
Under the direction of Christine Schuler Deschryver, the Ida Lee Project will become a satellite center of V-Day’s City of Joy. This collaboration will provide local women and girls the opportunity to seek holistic support following sexual trauma.