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Jul 21, 2019 | In the Media, News
The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic was the largest in history for that disease, and Sierra Leone sustained the highest number of fatalities. Among other things, the outbreaks represented a major setback in immunization efforts in West Africa. Due to the highly contagious...
Jul 18, 2019 | In the Media, News
Imagine that 90 percent of all people living with HIV were diagnosed and treated with drugs. Would that be sufficient to end the AIDS epidemic? Scientists tried to answer the question in three enormous studies published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of...
Jun 21, 2019 | In the Media, News
Since October 2018, with funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ICAP’s DREAMS project has been active in Muleba District Council in the western Tanzanian region of Kagera....
Jun 13, 2019 | In the Media, News
The results of a clinical study that provided evidence about the potential link between three female contraceptives and an increased risk in HIV infection were released at the 9th South African AIDS Conference in Durban on Thursday afternoon. Participants were from...
Jun 13, 2019 | In the Media, News
To increase the number of people who know their HIV status, ICAP in Zambia is using an innovative approach called “I-Surge” to accelerate progress. To do this, ICAP is working with the Zambian Ministry of Health and cadres of community-based volunteers to roll out...
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...