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Nov 29, 2022 | News, Stories from the Field
Women and girls living in war and conflict zones are at increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), resulting in physical injuries, unwanted pregnancies, fistula, sexually transmitted infections – including HIV – and death. In recent months, the war in...
Nov 28, 2022 | News
On 27 October 2022, the government of Ethiopia recognized the continuing work of ICAP at Columbia University to support the ongoing efforts to control malaria in the country, with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through the President’s...
Nov 7, 2022 | News
Ahead of this year’s World AIDS Day, observed on December 1, ICAP at Columbia University’s Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) project is celebrating the release of new HIV survey results measuring progress toward ending the HIV epidemic in several...
Oct 28, 2022 | News
ICAP at Columbia University is launching a new project in Ukraine to support the recovery of health systems in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – which has claimed thousands of lives, displaced millions of people, and significantly threatened health systems...
Oct 25, 2022 | News
The Uganda Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Western and Central region of Uganda in September 2022. By October 20, 2022, 65 EVD cases were confirmed, 27 people had died, and 1,636 contacts of cases had been listed, with new...
Oct 25, 2022 | News
Pathogen surveillance has changed rapidly in the era of COVID-19. As COVID testing became more widely available, especially with the advent of inexpensive home-based tests, tracking exactly where pathogen hotspots were forming became more challenging. In the nation of...