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Jun 24, 2020 | News
For patients attending medication-assisted therapy (MAT) sites in the Kyrgyz Republic, taking home more than a three-day supply of methadone usually requires meeting eligibility criteria set by the Ministry of Health. For example, the client should be on MAT for at...
Jun 23, 2020 | In the Media, News
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP’s senior technical director, is quoted in a June 23 Reuters article on a potential second wave of COVID-19 infections. While there’s no formal definition for a second wave, some experts say they know it when they see it. ...
Jun 23, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, is quoted in a June 23 article on the Quanta Magazine website about why COVID-19 infections are relatively low in South Asia. One hypothesis involves the BCG vaccine, which is used universally in...
Jun 22, 2020 | News
As countries in sub-Saharan Africa race against the clock to ready public health systems before an expected surge of COVID-19 cases, ICAP in Nigeria is helping over 49,000 people living with HIV to maintain stable supply lines of HIV anti-retroviral therapy (ART)...
Jun 22, 2020 | News
As Lesotho’s Ministry of Health prepares for an expected surge of COVID-19 cases, ICAP is providing critical support to the country’s national response by standing up a COVID data analytic and visualization platform. This platform, which includes a visual data...
Jun 21, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, spoke to NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday on June 21 about the increase in COVID-19 infections among younger people, and the need to mobilize this population to help curb the pandemic. Dr. Wafaa...