At 16 years old, Mary is like many other teenagers. She enjoys going to school in her hometown of Kigali, Rwanda, spending time with her friends, and she gets in the occasional disagreement with her mother. Yet, in many ways, Mary has had to grow up faster than her...
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr spoke with NPR’s WNYC to discuss what Science magazine called the breakthrough of the year—the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052. The study found that providing early antiretroviral treatment to an HIV-infected person can reduce the risk of...
An important yet often overlooked strategy in the effort to improve the wellness of families is engaging fathers in family health from their partners’ pregnancy through delivery and beyond. Through a pilot health education project underway in Nyanza, Eastern (South)...
!{filedir_1}shims.jpg! For 27-year old Nomsa, a home visit from a SHIMS counselor not only confirmed what she had thought for over two years – that she was HIV positive – but gave her the assistance she needed to get help and to take care of her HIV infection. Nomsa...
!{filedir_1}ICAP_LS_WAD.jpg! Lesotho participated in the World AIDS Day national commemoration event in Ha Mabote in Maseru District. The event, with the theme of  “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,”...
ICAP joined with representatives of the US Government and Ministries of Health from five African countries in Lilongwe, Malawi on November 17 for the launch of the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative–an initiative developed to address the critical shortage of...
