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Aug 14, 2019 | News
Only 37 percent of people living with HIV in Côte d’Ivoire know that they have the virus, according to data from the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (CIPHIA) survey led by ICAP in 2017-18. This means the country must bridge a significant gap in order to achieve...
Jul 26, 2019 | In the Media, News
Michelle Moorhouse, MB BCh, from Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, works with the OPTIMIZE consortium, a group run by ICAP at Columbia University in New York City that seeks to simplify and make HIV treatments accessible. The consortium’s ADVANCE trial...
Jul 22, 2019 | In the Media, News
A new report released on July 22 at the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science in Mexico City, Mexico, shows that the world is lagging behind in its commitment to end the AIDS epidemic among children and adolescents. The report, Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free, shows...
Jul 22, 2019 | In the Media, News
HPTN 071 (PopART) examined the impact of a package of HIV prevention interventions, including universal testing and treatment, on community-level HIV incidence amongst more than one million people living in 21 urban and peri-urban communities in Zambia and South...
Jul 22, 2019 | In the Media, News
Despite World Health Organization recommendations to provide TB preventative treatment to all people living with HIV and UNAIDS’ goal of reaching 90 percent of people living with HIV with TB prevention services by 2020, only one million people infected with HIV...
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...