Stories from the Field
Aug 17, 2017 | Stories from the Field
South Sudan, in East Africa, is the world’s youngest nation—and its birth was not an easy one. Still recuperating from four decades of conflict, earlier this year, the United Nations declared the country to be in an active famine. At the same time, like much of...
Jul 5, 2017 | Stories from the Field
Circumcision offers heterosexual men lifelong, partial protection against HIV, reducing their risk of becoming HIV-infected by 60 percent. This powerful prevention effect has motivated the Government of Mozambique to prioritize the scale-up of voluntary medical male...
Apr 25, 2017 | Stories from the Field
Mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and psychosis are more than twice as common among people living with HIV than in patients with other chronic conditions, such as diabetes. [1] This is due to several factors: HIV/AIDS and related...
Mar 27, 2017 | Stories from the Field
Community health workers (CHW) are often deployed to provide health services in both resource-rich and resource-poor settings. ICAP at Columbia University researchers collaborated with the Eastern Cape Department of Health in South Africa in the assessment of the role...
Jan 19, 2017 | Stories from the Field
Lesotho has the second highest HIV prevalence in the world and over 70 percent of tuberculosis (TB) patients are HIV-positive. Lesotho’s many migrant mine workers are at particularly high risk of acquiring TB and HIV due to working conditions in the mines and other...
Jan 11, 2017 | Stories from the Field
As Angola lays the groundwork for implementing WHO’s test and start guidelines, the Government of Angola and its partners are working to streamline processes so that already overburdened health facilities can accommodate the increased numbers of patients on ART....