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Feb 19, 2021 | In the Media, News
While the world focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the rollout and distribution of a vaccine against the virus, the Ebola virus, which killed thousands in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, has reappeared. On February seventh, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Feb 18, 2021 | News
When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, like many other nations, Uganda adopted a strict lockdown to prepare its health system for the potential spread of the virus. By the end of March 2020, most businesses were closed, vehicle movement was restricted, and...
Feb 17, 2021 | News
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) jointly conducted the Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) study which tested a new innovation for HIV prevention. Traditionally,...
Feb 17, 2021 | In the Media, News
Several months into the largest vaccine rollout in US history, social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram continue to prominently feature anti-vaccination accounts in its search results. Though Facebook pledged, last year, to reduce the spread of...
Feb 17, 2021 | In the Media, News
As New York continues to grapple with shortages in the coronavirus vaccine distribution, an emerging body of research suggestions that people who have previously been infected might only need one of the two shots that people need to achieve near-complete protection...
Feb 16, 2021 | In the Media, News
The overuse of antibiotics during the pandemic may make other types of microbes (bacteria causing diseases) an even bigger threat. Most COVID-19 patients don’t need antibiotics to get better, but some doctors are prescribing them just in case. ICAP’s Wafaa...