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Jun 2, 2019 | In the Media, News
ICAP in Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has trained 26 house officers in the first cohort of its leadership and management certificate...
May 24, 2019 | In the Media, News
“This research provides an unprecedented level of detail, down to 5×5 km cells, about the local scope of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000-2017,” noted Jessica Justman, MD, senior technical director for ICAP. “As we have seen with PHIA survey...
May 24, 2019 | News
Child mortality is one of the most pressing health challenges in Sierra Leone, where the under-five mortality rate is 94 deaths per 1,000 live births—compared to a global average of 49, and 6 in the United States. Sierra Leone is committed to reducing child deaths,...
May 23, 2019 | In the Media, News
The latest episode of the New England Journal of Medicine Interviews podcast is now available, featuring ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr speaking to Stephen Morrissey, executive managing editor of NEJM. In the interview, Dr. El-Sadr discusses “AIDS in America — Back...
May 21, 2019 | News
A new study co-authored by Jessica Justman, MD, Senior Technical Director at ICAP at Columbia University and Associate Professor of Medicine in Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, captures the evolution and variation of the HIV epidemic over...
May 15, 2019 | In the Media, News
The recent New England Journal of Medicine Perspective article authored by Wafaa El-Sadr, Miriam Rabkin, and others was cited in a Health & Science article in the Washington Post. “A decade ago, the number of U.S. infections was declining substantially each...