Stories from the Field
Sep 6, 2017 | Stories from the Field
In the Kyrgyz Republic, injection drug use accounts for almost 60 percent of HIVinfections. For people who inject drugs, needle and syringe programs—which provide clean needles and syringes at no cost to participants—serve as one of three core HIVinterventions, along...
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...
