Five years ago, when ICAP first began partnering with the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), only a third of the health zones were providing antiretroviral therapy and only 12 percent of the adults and children in need treatment were...
BY: RAY SUAREZ, PBS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Reprinted with permission from PBS NEWSHOUR If you’re old enough, you can remember when you first heard about a disease, or a group of diseases found among young men in New York and San Francisco. In those early years,...
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr spoke with NPR’s WNYC to discuss what Science magazine called the breakthrough of the year—the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052. The study found that providing early antiretroviral treatment to an HIV-infected person can reduce the risk of...
