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Sep 18, 2018 | News
Recognizing that antiretroviral therapy (ART) “keeps people living with HIV alive, healthier and reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to partners,” the World Health Organization in 2015 recommended that anyone infected with HIV should begin ART as soon after...
Sep 14, 2018 | In the Media, News
In 2003 —out of the crisis of the global HIV epidemic—ICAP emerged. Propelled by the vision of founding director Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, a Columbia Mailman professor of Epidemiology, ICAP endeavors to strengthen the health systems of under-resourced communities...
Aug 31, 2018 | In the Media, News
“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...
Aug 30, 2018 | In the Media, News
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...
Aug 29, 2018 | In the Media, News
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...
Aug 20, 2018 | In the Media, News
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...