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(Medical Xpress) ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr on success of HPTN 074 trial
“Injection drug use is a major factor underlying the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central and Southeast Asia,” said Wafaa El-Sadr MD, MPH, MPA, HPTN co-principal investigator and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New...
(Africa.com) Wafaa El-Sadr among speakers announced for ASLM
As the date for ASLM2018, the fourth biennial conference of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine conference (ASLM) draws near, the organization has released the list of confirmed speakers who will come to Abuja to share leading opinions, experiences and insight...
(The Body) ICAP session on HIV and aging in “Overview of AIDS 2018”
With an ever-increasing number of people living with HIV who will be over fifty in the next 5-10 years, it may come as a shock to learn that there is comparatively little research on aging and HIV. There are clear reasons why this has been true in the past: older...
(Devex) NCDs and HIV: How to simultaneously address needs and enhance care
Noncommunicable diseases, chiefly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes, are now responsible for 80 percent of “premature” deaths — occurring between the ages of 30-69 — in low- and middle-income countries. Due to the inflammatory...