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Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population Launches First-Ever Population-based HIV Impact Assessment
Over the past few decades, Haiti has suffered one of the worst HIV epidemics in the Caribbean region, with an estimated 2% of adults, ages 15-49, currently living with HIV. Prone to facing natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, infrastructural barriers...
(New York Times) ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr on Universal “Test and Treat” for HIV
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...
ICAP to Test New Combinations of Antibodies for HIV Prevention
ICAP at Columbia University is playing a key role in testing the feasibility of a potential breakthrough in the global effort to stop HIV transmission. The Harlem Prevention Center, one of ICAP’s two clinical research centers in New York, is participating in a...
ICAP in Sierra Leone Equips 26 House Officers with Skills for Effective Leadership
In Sierra Leone, house officers (medical interns) are often posted in leadership positions at low-resource health facilities and are expected to make critical management decisions that can impact thousands of patients. However, their education seldom includes...