In the Media
Jun 13, 2019 | In the Media, News
A landmark study has ended 30 years of anxiety that hormonal contraceptive injections may increase women’s chances of infection from HIV. But the study found a dramatically higher rate of HIV infection among women in southern Africa than was expected, which one...
Jun 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
ICAP in Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has trained 26 house officers in the first cohort of its leadership and management certificate...
May 24, 2019 | In the Media, News
“This research provides an unprecedented level of detail, down to 5×5 km cells, about the local scope of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000-2017,” noted Jessica Justman, MD, senior technical director for ICAP. “As we have seen with PHIA survey...
May 23, 2019 | In the Media, News
The latest episode of the New England Journal of Medicine Interviews podcast is now available, featuring ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr speaking to Stephen Morrissey, executive managing editor of NEJM. In the interview, Dr. El-Sadr discusses “AIDS in America — Back...
May 15, 2019 | In the Media, News
The recent New England Journal of Medicine Perspective article authored by Wafaa El-Sadr, Miriam Rabkin, and others was cited in a Health & Science article in the Washington Post. “A decade ago, the number of U.S. infections was declining substantially each...
May 15, 2019 | In the Media, News
“There’s an increasing appreciation that this epidemic is even less homogeneous than people have imagined,” says Wafaa El-Sadr, global director of the public-health organization ICAP and a professor at Columbia University, who was not a contributor...