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Jul 25, 2021 | News, Stories from the Field
Every year, the International AIDS Society’s Conference on HIV Science (IAS), offers a platform for leading professionals in HIV to present advances in the future of HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and research. At this year’s IAS conference (IAS 2021), ICAP’s...
Jul 23, 2021 | News
Photo Credit: European Union 2019/Photographer: Christian Jepsen Climate change is having a profound and escalating impact on health inequalities around the world. Events such as cyclones, tornadoes, and flooding are predicted to become more common and severe, along...
Jul 23, 2021 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA speaks about the need to increase the speed of vaccinating populations in New York City as the Delta variant continues to spread. Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, wondered why the city did not extend...
Jul 23, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD discusses how travelers can make summer plans while considering local COVID-19 case counts. Just as many travelers check the weather forecast before their trips, they should also make a habit of checking the local Covid-19 case count, says Jessica...
Jul 21, 2021 | News
Since the start of the pandemic, the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia wrestled with capacity to respond effectively to COVID-19 in the country. A shortage of trained laboratory personnel limited the diagnosis of COVID-19 with polymerase chain reaction-based (PCR)...
Jul 21, 2021 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD speaks about the need for New Yorkers to get vaccinated as the number of COVID-19 cases increases. Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of Medicine in Epidemiology at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, said the “doubling of such a...