Tuberculosis is preventable, and yet, it afflicts 10 million people every year globally. The Kingdom of Lesotho accounts for the world’s highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB), with over half of cases co-infected with HIV. Children are especially vulnerable to...
In Uganda, routine childhood immunization is generally high – but at the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to vaccines and other important health care services was severely disrupted, exposing many to life-threatening illness. The Uganda Ministry of Health and UN...
Eswatini has one of the world’s highest rates of new tuberculosis (TB) cases. Children in particular are extremely vulnerable to severe forms of TB disease. In 2018, over one million children developed TB globally, and at least 7.5 million children are estimated to...
A recent nationwide study shows that acquisition of COVID-19 is similar across all ages. The Community Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Study (COMPASS), co-led by ICAP at Columbia University and a number of other institutions, assessed COVID-19 seroprevalence – or the...
In 2020, there were an estimated 2 million children under the age of 15 years living with HIV worldwide, only half of whom were on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Until now, there has been only limited data on the number of children living with HIV who are undiagnosed....
