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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 | News
It’s a familiar scene: a family, exhausted from fleeing conflict or natural disaster waits at a crowded tent for help. Wounds get bandaged, kids get rehydrated and all receive food rations to tide them through the emergency. Everyone hopes that the crisis will pass...
Jul 18, 2019 | News
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...
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...
Jul 11, 2019 | News
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...
Jun 27, 2019 | News
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...